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States can "drastically improve" the health of their sickest Medicaid beneficiaries by taking advantage of the new option in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to offer "health homes" to enrollees with chronic conditions, according to Renée Markus Hodin, director of the Integrated Care Advocacy Project at Community Catalyst in Boston, MA.
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States are poised to take advantage of the payment reform approaches outlined by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), says Anne Gauthier, a senior fellow at the Washington, DC-based National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP).
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Rates paid to Medicaid providers are "both a provider and a beneficiary issue," according to Byron J. Gross, BA, JD, an attorney in the Los Angeles office of the National Health Law Program.
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While the possibility of using genetic information for evil, rather than good, sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, the likelihood of that happening is ever-present.
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The first-in-human clinical trials raise difficult ethical issues for researchers and review boards because of the uncertainty that accompanies them.
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Ethical questions and concerns are being raised in cities and towns all over the United States as a number of prison inmates seem to be receiving better and/or reduced rate healthcare for otherwise costly medical procedures.
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The commercial funding of continuing medical education (CME) and the potential for bias is of great concern for a significant number of healthcare practitioners and researchers, many of whom admit to being unwilling to pay higher fees to eliminate or offset commercial funding, according to a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine, (Arch Intern Med 2011;171:840-846).
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Recently Catholic hospitals have received a large amount of media coverage in the news and on the Internet stemming from certain decisions concerning healthcare and ethics.
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Weather forecasters had much of the Southeast on high alert for dangerous storms on Wednesday, April 27, but the clinical and administrative staff at Cullman Regional Medical Center (CRMC) in Cullman, AL, got a particularly vivid view of what these storms were capable of at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
