Health Policy
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Medicare doubles readmission penalties, changes observation status rules
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Defensive medicine tied to physician perceptions, not damage caps
Major finding: Among headache patients, the likelihood of ordering advanced imaging was 11.5% among physicians with high-level concerns about...
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House committee unanimously passes SGR replacement
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Injuries/poisonings the leading cause of pediatric ED visits
Applied Evidence
When war follows combat veterans home
While combat survivability is at an all-time high, vets return home to private struggles with depression, PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and...
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Cigna to require counseling for some genetic tests
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Analysis: Estrogen therapy after hysterectomy may have saved lives
Major finding: A minimum of 18,600 and as many as 91,600 excess deaths occurred between 2002 and 2011 among hysterectomized women aged 50-59 years...
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Preventable admissions have limited impact on spending
Major finding: ED visits were considered preventable in 43% of high-cost Medicare patients and in 44% of the rest of the Medicare population.Data...
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Tracking quality measures improved perinatal care
Major finding: Tracking quality measures decreased the rate of elective deliveries before 39 weeks’ gestation from 25% to 2% and the cesarean...
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Doctors: Major responsibility for cost control is not ours
Major finding: Sixty percent of responding physicians believe that trial attorneys bear major responsibility for reducing health costs.Data source...
Conference Coverage
Weight-loss program for veterans cut diabetes risk
Major finding: Twenty-eight percent of heavy patients who were active participants in a novel lifestyle change program experienced a clinically...