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PAMF Doctor Researching Patient-Centered Care – San Jose Mercury News
Research by Dr. Dominick Frosch of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation is expected to benefit patients in Santa Cruz County. Frosch’s pilot project is one of 50 funded for two years by the nonprofit Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, which allocated $30 million in April. Frosch was awarded $674,264. He is testing whether empowering patients to ask three key questions will result in patients learning about all the options available and the potential outcomes.
The 3 questions are:
• Given my personal characteristics, conditions and preferences, what should I expect will happen to me?
• What are my options and what are the benefits and harms of those options?
• What can I do to improve the outcomes that are most important to me?
According to Frosch, patients are frequently not informed by their health care providers of the full range of interventions, and patients are often reluctant to speak up because they fear being perceived as “difficult” and getting lower quality care.
A Guide to the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act Decision – Kaiser Family Foundation
There really is no excuse not to be well informed about the most significant legislation and the most important Supreme Court decision in many years.
This policy brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation describes the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act and discusses the implementation of health reform now that questions about the constitutionality of the law have been resolved.
See on www.kff.org
Our Health Policy Matters: Public Health, Mental Health, and Health Policy in a Post-ACA World
Now that the ACA decision is behind us, what’s on the horizon in the world of public health, mental health, and health policy? The truth is that ACA was essentially neutral with respect to prevention and public health. 3% of our nation’s health funding went to these services last year, and 3% will continue to go to these services with or without ACA. That won’t stop the assault on public health. Federal, state, and local governments have all cut public health services in recent years and, unless we have a public health crisis, may well cut further.
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Hot Topics in Health Care Law — Saturday July 7, 2012
Today’s edition of Hot Topics in Health Care Law is available. This topic aggregator/newspaper contains articles that I think are on the cutting edge of health law.
Baton Rouge Advocate: Millions in cuts slated for Medicaid
The Jindal administration is preparing to roll out about $860 million in cuts to the government’s insurance program that delivers health care to Louisiana’s poor — the result of newly authorized federal Medicaid funding reductions critics call disastrous.
Major health care providers said Friday they are preparing for something they know cannot be good for them or the poor, elderly and disabled once the funds are stripped from the $7.7 billion Medicaid program.
One association that provides community services to the developmentally disabled is already calling for a special legislative session to generate revenues to offset more cuts in the fiscal year that began Sunday.
Another association executive wondered whether the state could still have a viable program that meets federal Medicaid “access to care” requirements.
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90 Percent of Patients Want to Self-Manage Health Online: Accenture Survey – Health Care IT – News & Reviews
Patients want to access health information online and fill prescriptions electronically. But they also want face-to-face time with their doctor, a survey by Accenture revealed.
California physicians sue Aetna over out-of-network referrals
The California Medical Assn., the largest physician group in the state, and more than 60 individual doctors sued health insurance giant Aetna Inc. The suit against Aetna is part of a growing legal battle over what patients are charged when they go outside a health insurer’s network.
See on www.latimes.com
USDOJ: GlaxoSmithKline to Plead Guilty and Pay $3 Billion to Resolve Fraud Allegations and Failure to Report Safety Data
Global health care giant GlaxoSmithKline LLC agreed to plead guilty and to pay $3 billion to resolve its criminal and civil liability arising from the company’s unlawful promotion of certain prescription drugs, its failure to report certain safety data, and its civil liability for alleged false price reporting practices, the Justice Department announced today, July 2, 2012. The resolution is the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history and the largest payment ever by a drug company.
See on www.justice.gov
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