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With more than $370 million in overpayments identified in fiscal year 2007 by auditors in the Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) demonstration project, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has designated the project a success and is making plans to expand the program beyond the three states in the demonstration project.
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As health insurance costs escalate and employers reduce coverage for employees, raise deductibles, or stop providing health insurance altogether, hospitals are providing care for an increasing number of patients who have no means to pay.
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When patients are medically ready to leave the acute care hospital and have no coverage for post-acute care, it's a "no-brainer" for the hospital to pay to move the patient to a lower level of care, says Jay Cayner, director of social patient and family services at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
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Two Duke University Medical Center researchers tackle the question "Is it ethical to conduct clinical trials with patients in a hospice environment?" in the Feb. 4, 2008, "Professional Issues" section of the American Medical News web site.
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This phase II placebo-controlled trial showed a dramatic benefit from rituximab in preventing clinical relapses, as well as new MRI lesions, in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).
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RPLS occurs in a variety of clinical settings that cause an acute elevation of blood pressure, or cause damage to the endothelial cell junctions in brain blood vessels.
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FDA drug approval to change? Urinary incontinence in women; how metabolism of certain drugs can be predicted by genetic analysis; bowel preps may compromise renal function especially in the elderly according to a new study; FDA Actions.
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The most comprehensive study published to date did not find evidence of neuropsychologic problems in children ages 7-10 who were exposed to mercury-containing vaccines or immune globulins administered prenatally or during the first 7 months of life.
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Surgical decompression results in a better outcome than other therapies for symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis.
