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Telcare debuts new app for diabetes monitor
Wireless glucose monitor vendor Telcare just added a patient-focused iPhone app, MyTelcare Diabetes Pal, to its glucose monitor product. The app automatically synchronizes with the monitor and
Health system pilots see lackluster bundled payment results
Bundling payments to providers for certain episodes of care may not yield savings and efficiencies as easily as once thought, according to a new study of the Prometheus payment project by the RAND
New York City pays $70M for overbilling Medicaid
The City of New York has agreed to pay $70 million to settle a lawsuit with the U.S. government over the way it billed for Medicaid, reports The New York Times. As part of the settlement, the city
Obama confident reform will survive legal scrutiny
Despite a recent reversal in a federal appeals court that almost certainly will send the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to the U.S. Supreme Court, President Barack Obama expressed
99.5% of hospitals struggle with drug shortages
Nearly all community hospitals in the United States are currently experiencing a drug shortage, according to a survey by the American Hospital Association (AHA) released yesterday. Such shortages
Cisco eyes hospitals as key users for new business-focused tablet
Cisco is targeting hospitals with its new business-oriented tablet, Cius, following a year's worth of beta development at Palmora Pomerado Health System, San Diego, as well as firms in the education
Unintended pregnancies cost $11B a year in government-underwritten medical care
Unintended pregnancies are a huge hit to the bottom line of the federal and state governments, costing at least $11 billion a year, reports the Wall Street Journal, most of which goes to clinics and
Physical therapist pleads guilty to $7.3M Medicare fraud
A New York-area physical therapist pleaded guilty to federal charges of defrauding the Medicare program out of more than $7 million, highlighting the need for greater transparency in physician
Obama rejects proposals to reorganize Medicare, Medicaid
President Barack Obama rejected a Republican proposal to change Medicare to a voucher program and Medicaid into bloc grants to the states, report the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. "These
FTC, DoJ battling over ACO jurisdiction
A "turf battle" is brewing between the U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission over which agency will have purview of accountable care organizations, the Wall Street Journal reports.
