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This week we have a 30 day extension on the Medicare/Tri-Care cuts and this meeting occurs about one week before the next deadline hits again. The pay cut 
situation has gone on for way too many years without a permanent solution.
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I know no one wants to admit it, but mistakes happen during surgery and after surgery. They happen all the time.
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Large-scale implementation of comprehensive healthcare IT, especially if meaningful ROI on the hundreds of billions of dollars spent is to be attained, is more of a wicked problem than a tractable one, as I have written on this site and in a number of presentations (such as this one on HIT challenges and perils - PDF).
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This is the latest request from MedPac and with trying to equal out what is being paid out. Reports like this normally send panic to those who are participants in the Advantage plans. From one side of the coin there are many pharmacy benefit managers and insurance HMO type of companies making a lot of money from handling only Medicare Advantage plans. 
Today, coincidentally, Medicare suspended marketing and adding new members to an insurance company for failure to provide services and adding extra imposing therapy authorization requirements not approved by CMS.
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Once again many thanks to Acumed Scrubs for advertising with the Medical Quack. The new Spring Scrubs are still on sale. 
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Lauren and I have been blogging over the years that, in our opinion, “non-profit” nursing homes provide better care than “for-profit” nursing homes. Our experience tells us that non-profit nursing homes hire more nurses to care for the residents than do the for-profit nursing homes.
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The march of legal settlements and guilty pleas by health care organizations just keeps going. The most recent participants were:
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In healthcare insurance we all certainly know what this is all about and the fact that it came to head the way it has had a lot to do with attitudes and running algorithmic codes with automation and leaving out this one little element called communication, not data, human. We still need this.
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One good thing about this senator, Jim Bunning, is the fact that he is retiring and perhaps not soon enough. His big battle was not wanting to add to the deficit, but its there anyway for all to work on, so lets dig a deeper grave here for the unemployed who are also someones patient and make life a little more difficult right now. In addition when they get sick, there needs to be a physician who will see them and with the Medicare cuts and some of those individuals maybe getting close to qualify for Medicare, we are not accomplishing anything here. 