Research roundup: Medicare spending, community health centers, children’s dental services
February 6th, 2010 admin
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Health Affairs: Prices Don’t Drive Regional Medicare Spending Variations – “Per capita Medicare spending is more than twice as high in New York City and Miami than in places like Salem, Oregon. [Original News Article]
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Are the national health expenditure numbers released by the government today as bad as they sound? Which is the most important indicator to watch? Percent of GDP? Per capita spending? The shift from private to public spending? Which sectors of the industry should we be carefully watching for jumps in spending? Spending in 2009 grew to 17.3 percent...
How do you read today’s news that the growth of U.S. health care spending slowed in 2008 to its lowest level in 48 years? What is significant in these numbers, and what do they mean for health care reform? The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released their findings today, and officials there wrote their analysis in the journal Health...
RESTON, Va. — Northrop Grumman Corporation has been selected by the Centers for Medicare & medicaid services to develop a National Level Repository for accurate electronic health record incentive payment processing transactions to healthcare professionals, agencies and institutions. [Original News Article] Related NewsGeneral Dynamics Awarded...
General Dynamics Information Technology’s VIPS business sector, a business unit of General Dynamics , has been awarded a task order to support the Department of Health and Human services‘ Centers for Medicare and medicaid services. [Original News Article] Related NewsGeneral Dynamics Wins $45m Medicaid DealGeneral Dynamics Awarded $45...
Public and private investments in community health centers – institutions that provide care to approximately 15 million of the nation’s poor and medically underserved – have led to greatly expanded services and care for people who are uninsured, says a study published in the February 2010 edition of Health Affairs . Based on their study,...
Washington—-The U.S. Department of Health and Human services , the Centers for Medicare and medicaid services today announced grants to 41 health programs operated by the Indian Health Service; tribes and tribal organizations; and urban Indian organizations. [Original News Article] Related NewsIndian-American fined $10 mn for medicare fraudIndian...
An article published yesterday by Health Affairs finds that the causes of Medicare spending growth have changed dramatically over the past two decades. Twenty years ago, most of the increases were due to inpatient hospital services, especially for heart disease, but recent annual increases are the result of outpatient treatment of chronic conditions...
According to annual government projections published today in Health Affairs , U.S. health care spending is expected to have reached $2.5 trillion in 2009—up an estimated 5.7 percent since 2008 despite a projected decline in the gross domestic product (GDP) in the same period. As a result, health care’s share of the economy grew 1.1...
State health officials are going high tech to crack down on instances of medicaid fraud in Miami-Dade. This July, the Agency for health care Administration will launch a pilot program in which voice recognition technology will be used to call patients in Miami-Dade County to verify that they’re receiving home health care services. [Original...
The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room is reporting that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) may undergo a structural reorganization within the next 60 days. According to the post and email published by the Hill’s Blog Briefing Room , Acting CMS Administrator Charlene Frizzera recently advised CMS staff that the agency will...
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