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Healthcare Price Transparency: A Look at Aetna’s Web-Based Tool
Illustration source: Vermont Health Connect, Vermont.gov Would you look at comparative price information for procedures like an MRI, sleep study, or colonoscopy before you selected where to have a procedure done? Would you like to have fewer surprises on … Continue reading
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Tagged Aetna, co-pays, deductibles, elective surgery, Member Payment Estimator, out-of-pocket costs, price transparency, value
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Answer Paul Ryan’s Quick Phone Survey on Whether You Back ACA/Obamacare
You have a chance to weigh in on whether or not you back Obamacare today. Paul Ryan has a phone survey for you. It takes a short time, with a support/no support answer. These calls are logged in so they … Continue reading
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Appendicitis in America: Time for Practice Change?
Chances are good that most readers have had personal experience with appendicitis. Appendectomy is the top inpatient surgery for kids and it far outpaces all other pediatric surgeries. Also, appendicitis is the most frequent reason adults make it to the … Continue reading
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Tagged antibiotics, appendectomy, appendicitis, cholecystitis, gallbaladder surgeryi, PCORI, Robin Colgrove
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Homecare Workers Flood #fightfor15 Rallies, Wait for President Obama to Act
Homecare and direct care workers were out in droves last night in New York’s #fightfor15 rally that stretched from Columbus Circle to Times Square. Initially billed as an event for fast-food and retail workers, the #fightfor15 day expanded to home … Continue reading
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Tagged #fightfor15, home care, long term care
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4 Short Summer Reads: Concussion in Girls, Adult Diapers,Gay Conversion Therapy with Electric Shock, and Chronic Pain
We’re halfway through the summer, when perhaps you have more time for reading and considering new ideas. I want to draw readers’ attention to four issues that sharpen the focus on overlooked population groups that should be part and parcel … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, concussions, diapers, electric convulsive therapy, electric shock therapy, gay conversion therapy, pain management
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Concussions in School Sports: Is Culture Change Possible?
About a month ago, I stumbled across a news story in the Chicago Tribune about Drew Williams, a Lane Tech High School football player collapsing unexpectedly on the football field during a game. Ever since, he has been in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Drew Williams, football, head injury, malingering, school sports, soccer
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Back Pain Treatment Trends Worth Reversing
It may just be the American way –pull out all the stops and try anything or everything at great expense when it comes to medical care. Today’s post takes up how well the United States is doing at providing back … Continue reading
Patient POV Update: Immigration and Abortion News
I regret not posting here recently. It’s been a very busy time for me and I am following several issues that will make their way to this blog soon. I can’t give you a rank order of what’s most important, … Continue reading
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Tagged access to care, access to counsel, contraception, deportation, Dept. of Homeland Security, illegal abortion, Kermit Gosnell, mental illness, women's health
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Judge to SUNY/Downstate: Halt Long Island College Hospital Closure
State University of New York Trustees were ordered in no uncertain terms to put a temporary stop to the closing of Long Island College Hospital (LICH) in North Brooklyn. The order came down from a Brooklyn judge earlier today, who … Continue reading
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Tagged Brooklyn, Downstate, Long Island College Hospital, SUNY
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Repeating Koch’s Biggest Blunder
Few people remember Mayor Edward Koch regretting anything, much less anything he fought tooth and nail for, and belligerently. Tucked into the New York Times obituary Feb. 1 was a little-known fact that Koch, who championed the closure of Harlem’s … Continue reading