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More veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have died by their own hand than died from enemy fire by Jason S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Many media outlets (including this one) focus on the treatment of physical health ailments and do not devote enough time towards the treatment of mental health problems. M ... Read on »

Federal Contracting and the DC Boom by Jason S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Time Magazine on the economic boom currently happening in Washington, DC: “Yet the diversity of the Washington economy is an illusion, for each of its business sector ... Read on »

Cavalcade of Risk is up by Jason S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Nina Kallen of Insurance Coverage Law in Massachusetts hosts this week’s round-up of interesting and insightful risk-related posts, including some interesting personal ane ... Read on »

Variation in End-of-Life Cancer Treatments by Jason S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy According to a recent Dartmouth Atlas study : “The nation’s most elite cancer care centers performed only modestly better than community hospitals at meeting recognize ... Read on »

Heroes without Health Insurance by Jason S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This weekend is Memorial Day Weekend. It is a time to celebrate the service of current and former members of the military. Although military veterans garner a lot of atte ... Read on »

Thursday Links by Jason S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy What projects are funded by the CMS Innovation Center ? Sick in America . Does drinking coffee improve your health? Diagnostic technology and variation in ... Read on »

Health Wonk Review by Jason S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Jaan Sidorov of the Disease Management Care Blog hosts this week’s edition of the Health Wonk Review . Read on »

Fixed Effects Logit Estimator and the Incidental Parameter Problem by Jason S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Fixed effects (FE) regressions are a useful tool for controlling for time-invariant factors in a regression specification. When using a linear OLS model, FE represent the ... Read on »

Medicare Trustees Report: We’re Fucked by Jason S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Despite lower costs than previously projected, the Medicare Trust Fund is still in bad shape. he estimated exhaustion date for Medicare’s Hospital Insurance (HI) trust ... Read on »

Measuring Hospital Efficiency by Jason S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Medicare recently released the Medicare Spending per Beneficiary (MSPB) measure on Hospital Compare. This measure includes all payments to doctors, hospitals or other faci ... Read on »

Thoughts about Sebelius address Georgetown graduates by Jason S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In a few hours, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will address a keynote speech to graduates at Georgetown University . This is a ... Read on »

Is the government texting your baby? by Jason S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In honor of National Women’s Health Week, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) hosted a briefing on ... Read on »

What is the effect of physical examination requirements on mortality rates? by Jason S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Is tele-medicine/internet-medicine the wave of the future? Or do these alternative treatment methods just make it easier for patients and providers to engage in fraudulen ... Read on »

Wednesday Links by Jason S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy How much does it cost to insure your family ? Should your doctor be using Facebook ? Can the Facebook IPO save California’s budget? Britain: “ the clearest ... Read on »

Plastic Surgery in China by Jason S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy China standard is living as funds from export industries eventually trickle down into the earnings of (some) ordinary Chinese. Where are the Chinese spending their newfoun ... Read on »

A lifeline for antibiotics research? by Jason S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Antibiotics such as penicillin have helped to fight numerous diseases such as syphilis, and infections caused by staphylococci and streptococci. However, overuse of antib ... Read on »

ObamaCare stymied in New Jersey? by Jason S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Governor Chris Christie vetoes a bill today that would form have created a health exchange in New Jersey. “While I appreciate the Legislature’s attempt to find steady ... Read on »

How Effective is Arthroscopic Knee Surgery? by Jason S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy For patients with osteoarthritis, the answer is not at all. A paper in the New England Journal of Medicine examined 180 patients 75 years old or younger, that had ost ... Read on »

HWR at InsureBlog by Jason S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The latest edition of the health work review is up at InsureBlog . Read on »

When less is more by Jason S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Some medical procedures and tests are unnecessary. Others can even be harmful to patients. In an effort to reduce the frequency of these services, Consumer Reports is te ... Read on »

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