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For the past decade, patient safety and quality care and all the assistant care policies and standards associated with quality initiatives have been directed at improving efficiencies of both cost and process within health care institutions.
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SouthernCare Inc. and its shareholders agreed to pay the United States a total of $24.7 million to settle allegations that the company submitted false claims to the government for patients treated at its hospice facilities, the U.S. Justice Department reported in mid-January.
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Q & A with Felicia Cohn, PhD, director of medical ethics, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine.
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If you ask Laura Ann Wagner, president and CEO of In-House Hopice, based in Southfield, MI, the explanation why costs are increasing for the Medicare hospice benefit the answer is a simple one: Baby boomers are aging, and more of them are taking advantage of that benefit.
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[Editor's note: Medical Ethics Advisor will update this story in the April issue. Prior to press time, NHPCO secured a one-year moratorium on cuts in the Medicare Hospice Benefit via President Barack Obama's signing of The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.]
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Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and Planned Parenthood of Connecticut were among those filing lawsuits asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut to invalidate the administrative regulation finalized in December by the U.S. Department of Health aÿ
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President Obama may have signed the $787 billion stimulus package with the expectation that it will create jobs and jumpstart the economy, but businesses including those in the business of health care are still feeling financial pain.
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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI) have introduced legislation that would require not only pharmaceutical companies, but also makers of medical devices and biologics, to publicly report any money over $100 that they give to physicians within a year.
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Yale Law School professor and physician Jay Katz, MD, died Nov. 17 at age 86, according to the school's web site.
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A new study published Nov. 13 in the Chicago-based American Medical Association's (AMA) Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness journal found that consistent, evidence-based performance measurements are needed to accurately evaluate hospitals' ability to manage patient care during a disaster, the AMA says.
