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Survival analysis of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in neonatal and pediatric patients – A nationwide cohort study
ConclusionIn contrast to the widespread use of ECMO in respiratory distress syndrome in western countries, pediatric ECMO in Taiwan was more often applied to patients with underlying cardiovascular diseases. Mortality rates varied according to age groups and various etiologies. The results of this large pediatric cohort provides a different prospective in critical care outcomes in medical environments where ECMO is more widely available.
Source: Journal of the Formosan Medical Association - January 4, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research

UnitedHealth's Latest Blunders Include Lax Fraud Detection, Recalled EHRs - So Why is its CEO Worth $13.9 Million, or is it $34.7 Million?
We managed to go four months since our last post about UnitedHealth, but sure enough, the company that keeps on giving... examples of poor management to contrast with ridiculous management pay... has done so again.There were two obvious examples of poor management that recently appeared in the media.Lax Fraud DectionThe background, as noted in a Kaiser Health News article published in September, is that it is now fashionable for American states to outsource some or most of their Medicaid health insurance programs to managed care organizations, often for-profit, as is UnitedHealth.  These programs are meant to provide ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - September 17, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: executive compensation fraud healthcare IT risks managed care organizations Medicaid out-sourcing UnitedHealth Source Type: blogs

The health care triple play
Conclusions The healthcare industry is a 2 1/2 trillion dollar industry.  Costs will be driven up for everyone, and we will  create the HMOs that we had 20 years ago where we had  restricted patient choices and access to care. Medicare wants alliances if they can reduce the cost of caring for patients and still improve quality. This means fewer hospitalizations and lower costs.  Your diseases will be managed by managing the expenses your diseases incur. Hospitals are getting primary care doctors on the payroll to benefit from  insurers  and Medicare.Everyone knows we have to change t...
Source: Dr. Needles Medical Blogs - September 29, 2010 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Tags: THE HEALTH CARE TRIPLE PLAY Source Type: blogs

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A new study examines the management of facial lacerations in children based on health insurance status. Does the level of care differ between those with private versus public insurance? Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - December 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Emergency Medicine Journal Article Source Type: news

The Innovative Potential Of Venture-Backed Primary Care
There is an urgent need for innovation in primary care delivery — inadequate access for patients, poor care coordination, and a broken reimbursement system are well-documented challenges facing the field. Despite promising efforts and important pilots to overcome these obstacles, wide-spread innovation and improvement has been constrained by financing structures that incent the piecemeal, volume-driven delivery of clinical services rather than promoting care redesign. Amidst these prevailing reimbursement models, sources of funding for innovation in primary care delivery are limited. Notwithstanding recent progress, ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 16, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Jordan Anderson, Brian Powers and Sachin Jain Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Insurance and Coverage Organization and Delivery Population Health Quality Iora Health One Medical Group Physicians Primary Care Qliance Medical Management venture capitalism Source Type: blogs

Vermont Governor Signs Drug Price Transparency Bill
On Friday, June 3, 2016, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed into law a bill that aims to require greater transparency on behalf of drug manufacturers when they increase the prices of prescription medicine. The law, S.216, will require state health care regulators to develop an annual list of fifteen drugs for which "significant health care dollars" are spent and where the wholesale acquisition costs (i.e., list prices) rose by fifty percent or more over the previous five-year period, or for which the list prices rose by fifteen percent or more over a twelve-month period. The Green Mountain Care Board of Vermont will w...
Source: Policy and Medicine - June 8, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs

Health Care: What Should a Populist Do Now?
Conclusion The most common response to the suggestion that private contracts could be useful in reforming the health-care system for the benefit of ordinary Americans is the observation that people—ordinary Americans in particular—cannot reasonably be expected to read, let alone understand and compare, the multiple contracts they would confront. This point, however, while valid, is beside the real one, which is to give adequately subsidized consumers meaningful choices with respect to the cost and content of their future health care and enough reliable help in making them that they can be reasonably content with their ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 1, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

OIG Faults CMS for Improper Payment Rates
Under the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002, as amended, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is required to annually report on improper payments and meet certain improvement metrics. In a report released last fall, HHS identified approximately $96.9 billion in gross improper payments in fiscal year (FY) 2016.  $90 billion of this money were found to be overpayments. On May 16, 2017, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report examining these improper payments to determine HHS’s compliance with the statute.  In violation of the statute, the improper payment rates for both...
Source: Policy and Medicine - October 25, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs

Open Access References: Winter ’ 18
Please alert us to open access references we can share with members.  Include a citation and/or a link that anyone can access. Patient-Centered Care In Cancer. Patient-centered care is about more than you may think! Cure. Brenda Denzler. Personalized Strategies to Activate and Empower Patients in Health Care and Reduce Health Disparities. Jie Chen, C. Daniel Mullins, Priscilla Novak, Stephen B. Thomas. Health Education and Behavior, 2016. Recommended by Dave deBronkart. Designing culturally-sensitive personalized interventions is essential to sustain patients’ involvement in their treatment, and encourage patients to t...
Source: Society for Participatory Medicine - February 1, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Danny van Leeuwen Tags: Newsletter Source Type: news

How Evolving United States Payment Models Influence Primary Care and Its Impact on the Quadruple Aim
Conclusions: Although the ideal payment model for primary care remains to be determined, lessons learned from existing payment models can help guide the shift from volume-based to value-based care. To most effectively pay for primary care, future payment models should invest in a primary care infrastructure, one that supports team-based, community-oriented care, and measures the delivery of the functions of primary care.
Source: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine - July 9, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Park, B., Gold, S. B., Bazemore, A., Liaw, W. Tags: Special Communications Source Type: research

Spin it Again - Four More Go Through the Revolving Door From the World of Corporate Health Care to Top US Government Leadership Positions
DiscussionSo this round of revolving door transitions featured a top pharmaceutical company researcher going to a leadership position at the NIH, which was considered long ago as a producer or unbiased science; and one physician-manager and two pure managers going from big management consultancies to DHHS.  All these consultancies seem to have thriving businesses working with big commercial health care firms. So the Trump regime continues to stock top health care leadership positions with people from the commercial health care world.  These leadership positions will allow them to to control contracting with, poli...
Source: Health Care Renewal - July 27, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: CMS conflicts of interest DHHS Donald Trump Eli Lilly McKinsey NIH revolving doors Veterans Affairs Source Type: blogs

Coronavirus Will Have Long-Lasting Impacts on the U.S. Health Care System —And the Poorest Will Suffer Most
When Dr. Mark Lewis has to tell a cancer patient they’re dying, he tries to do so as compassionately as possible, usually offering a hug or a hand to hold. The thought of doing so by phone, he says, once felt heartbreakingly impersonal. But in the face of the current COVID-19 pandemic, the Salt Lake City-based gastrointestinal oncologist has had to do many things that make his “conscience weigh heavy.” He’s delivered bad news virtually, to limit the possibility of spreading the virus. He’s delayed chemotherapy for patients who—he hopes—can wait, knowing the treatment would wipe out...
Source: TIME: Health - March 26, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Magazine Source Type: news

Disparities and Inequities in US Health Care: Alive and Sick
This article brings historical perspective to what has become a systemic part of US health care; examines the extent of disparities today as they impact access, quality, and outcomes of care; and considers what can be done within our polarized political environment to eliminate them. It is hoped that this can help to spark dialogue within our discipline on these matters of critical importance. A single-payer national health insurance program, whereby all Americans can access affordable care based on medical need instead of ability to pay, can help to move our current nonsystem toward health equity. This change can bring im...
Source: Famly Medicine - October 11, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: John P Geyman Source Type: research