2 insurers’ boards will keep taking pay
AG criticizes Tufts, Harvard Pilgrim
The state’s second- and third-largest health insurers said yesterday their board members have decided to keep paying themselves five-figure annual fees despite objections from the state attorney general and an inquiry into directors’ compensation at nonprofit health plans.
http://www.boston.com/business/healthcare/articles/2011/03/31/two_health_insurers_boards_opt_to_keep_accepting_pay/?page=full
The Obama administration proposed new regulations Thursday to encourage doctors and hospitals to collaborate more closely to improve patient care, a major goal of the sweeping healthcare law the president signed last year.
The much-anticipated rules will reward new partnerships, known as Accountable Care Organizations, that deliver better results for Medicare patients.
http://www.latimes.com/health/healthcare/la-na-health-reform-20110401,0,2633120,print.story
http://www.boston.com/business/healthcare/articles/2011/03/31/two_health_insurers_boards_opt_to_keep_accepting_pay/?page=full
Medicare to cover prostate cancer
More Physicians Say No to Endless Workdays
By GARDINER HARRIS
HONESDALE, Pa. — Even as a girl, Dr. Kate Dewar seemed destined to inherit the small-town medical practice of her grandfather and father. At 4, she could explain how to insert a pulmonary catheter. At 12, she could suture a gash. And when she entered medical school, she and her father talked eagerly about practicing together.
But when she finishes residency this summer, Dr. Dewar, 31, will not be going home. Instead, she will take a job as a salaried emergency room doctor at a hospital in Elmira, N.Y., two hours away. An important reason is that she prefers the fast pace and interesting puzzles of emergency medicine, but another reason is that on Feb. 7 she gave birth to twins, and she cannot imagine raising them while working as hard as her father did.
Cuts Leave Patients With Medicaid Cards, but No Specialist to See
By ROBERT PEAR
LAFAYETTE, La. — Eight-year-old Draven Smith was expelled from school last year for disruptive behavior, and he is being expelled again this year. But his mother and his pediatrician cannot find a mental healthspecialist to treat him because he is on Medicaid, and the program, which provides health coverage for the poor, pays doctors so little that many refuse to take its patients.
The problem is common here and across the country, especially as states, scrambling to balance their budgets, look for cuts in Medicaid, which is one of their biggest expenditures. And it presents the Obama administration with a major challenge, since the new federal health care law relies heavily on Medicaid to cover many people who now lack health insurance.
Obama administration proposes rules for healthcare partnerships
The Obama administration is trying to encourage doctors and hospitals to collaborate more closely to improve patient care. Providers would be rewarded for delivering better results for Medicare patients.
By Noam N. Levey, Washington Bureau
8:34 PM PDT, March 31, 2011
Reporting from Washington
The much-anticipated rules will reward new partnerships, known as Accountable Care Organizations, that deliver better results for Medicare patients.
http://www.latimes.com/health/healthcare/la-na-health-reform-20110401,0,2633120,print.story
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