Exciting News! MCMS Member Ole J. Thienhaus, MD, MBA, an expert in geriatric psychiatry, has been appointed head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson. He will join the department March 1. Read More...
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Arizona Telemedicine Program and UA College of Medicine Receive Inaugural Award from Association of American Medical Colleges
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Ronald S. Weinstein, MD, founding director of the Arizona Telemedicine Program (ATP) and Ana Maria López, MD, MPH, ATP's founding medical director, recently accepted the Association of American Medical Colleges' inaugural "Readiness for Reform (R4R)" award on behalf of ATP and the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson. ATP was one of only three institutional winners presented with the award at the recent AAMC Annual Meeting in Denver; each institution received $5,000 to forward their innovation programs in healthcare delivery.
The AAMC's R4R Initiative seeks to identify academic programs developing transformative methods of addressing patient care, health education and research issues related to implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The R4R Award is sponsored by the AAMC's Council of Teaching Hospitals. Read More...
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Murder Knocked Off List of Top U.S. Killers: CDC
| | A respiratory illness known as pneumonitis knocked homicide off the list of the top killers in the United States for the first time in 45 years in 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in its annual report on U.S. mortality.
The drop in deaths by homicides was expected. In December 2011, the FBI released a preliminary report on U.S. crime rates for 2010 that showed a 7.1 percent drop in murder between January and June, part of a wider drop in violent crime despite the country's ongoing economic troubles.
The drop in murder rates - and a corresponding rise in pneumonitis - forced homicide off the government's annual list of top 15 killers for the first time since the mid-1960s. Murder was relegated to 16th place in 2010 with 16,065 killings. Read More...
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Doctors Win Suit Against Hospital over Abuse by Boss
| St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center and a department chairman who told a group of doctors he would "separate their skulls from their bodies" if they disobeyed him must pay the doctors $1.27 million, a Bergen County (New Jersey) jury has decided.
The trial offered a rare glimpse of the inner workings of a hospital department that "made the hazing of the Marines look like child's play," according to Dr. Khash Vosough of Franklin Lakes, the obstetrician/gynecologist who filed the lawsuit with his partners.
The suit centered on Dr. Roger P. Kierce's management of the OB/GYN department and the handling of the doctors' complaints by hospital administrators, including William McDonald, the Chief Executive. No problems with the quality of medical care were alleged. Read More...
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Nearly 500 State Lawmakers to Press Supreme Court to Uphold Healthcare Mandate
| More than 480 state lawmakers plan to file a brief Thursday urging the Supreme Court to uphold President Obama's healthcare law.
The group includes at least one lawmaker from every state, including the 26 states whose attorneys general are suing to overturn the healthcare law's individual insurance mandate. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in March and will likely rule on the law this summer.
The state lawmakers say requiring almost all Americans to buy insurance falls well within Congress's power under the Constitution's Commerce Clause. Echoing the Justice Department's arguments in support of the mandate, the state legislators said the Constitution gives Congress broad authority to regulate interstate commerce.
"The idea that the federal government does not have the power to address a national problem such as the healthcare crisis has no basis in the Constitution's text and history," the lawmakers' brief says, according to a summary released Thursday.
The brief is a joint effort of the Progressive States Network, the Working Group of State Legislators for Health Reform and the Constitutional Accountability Center. Read More...
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Measuring Quality: 368 New Ideas For 2012
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How should Medicare and Medicaid measure doctors, hospitals, dialysis centers and other healthcare providers it pays? There are 368 new ideas on the table this year, according to a list compiled by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. CMS estimates 60 will be adopted. Figuring out how to fairly and accurately assess the care that health providers are giving is a key component of the Affordable Care Act's effort to move the government and private insurers away from paying for the quantity of services provided, and instead making reimbursements based on the quality and cost-efficiency of that care. Some of the measures aim to assess specific areas of serious concern; such as the excessive use of restraints on patients in psychiatric hospitals, and the percent of babies born in a hospital who were delivered by choice before a full 39 weeks of pregnancy. Others are broader, like measuring how often families of people who died in hospice thought the program was satisfactory. Read More... |
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Stay on Track and Complete Your Version 5010 Upgrade
| | As 2012 begins, it is important to keep your focus on compliance with Version 5010 and to plan for the transition to ICD-10.
The Version 5010 deadline was January 1, 2012; however, because of the 90-day enforcement discretion period for all HIPAA covered entities upgrading to Version 5010 (ASC X12 Version 5010), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will not initiate enforcement action until April 1, 2012. CMS made this decision based on industry feedback that many organizations and their trading partners were not yet ready to finalize system upgrades to be compliant. Read More... |
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Problems Finding new Medicare Primary Care Doctors Small but Growing
| | A federal survey of Medicare beneficiaries shows that slightly more patients are having difficulty finding new primary care physicians to care for them.
Searching for a new family physician or internist who is accepting Medicare patients was more difficult than scheduling an appointment with a new specialist, according to an annual survey on physician access conducted by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. The 2011 survey found that 3.6% of Medicare patients reported having no problem finding a new primary care physician, while 2% had what they considered small or big problems finding one. All other patients surveyed were not looking for a new physician last year.
In previous years, surveys showed patients having relatively fewer problems scheduling appointments with new primary care physicians, said Cristina Boccuti, a MedPAC principal policy analyst, during a Dec. 15 commission meeting. Non-Medicare patients also reported more trouble last year. Read More... |
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