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Medicaid verification rules leading to higher health costs
In many states, Medicaid beneficiaries are forced to prove that they and their children are eligible for the program more than once a year. This often leads to overwhelmed families "falling off the... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Model lets patients pay directly for medical home
Paying for a medical home directly, without health plans as intermediaries, could give patients 24/7 access to care while lowering costs to the system as a whole. That, at least, is the claim made by... Read more...
A replacement for SGR in the works?
If House lawmakers have their way, the oft-criticized sustainable growth-rate equation used to calculate Medicare payments for doctors will be a thing of the past by next year, reports Modern... Read more...
Report: Primary care model needs update
Existing primary care practice models don't seem to be working for anyone involved. That's the conclusion drawn by a new report from the New England Healthcare Institute, which concluded that without... Read more...
Walgreens plans 100 more retail clinics by mid-2009
Over the last few years, retail clinic chains have been jockeying for position, trying to figure out if they had a sustainable business model on their hands. More recently, the industry has gone... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Doctors support national health insurance; Humana covers oral cancer screenings; and much more...
> A new study suggests that a majority of U.S. doctors support the notion of instituting national health insurance. Read more...
