Reinventing Hospice
Medicare considers going beyond palliative care, and Aetna finds that allowing curative treatment and loosening admission criteria reduce costs and improve quality of life
Health plans required not to discriminate against members with mental disorders find that many providers have modernized their methods
Insurers and ACOs should be able to work together to tackle a problem that wastes as much as $42 billion a year
Departments
The author reviewed and rejected all four options offered by his ENT and lived to tell about it
Fewer than half of the 137 groups reported spending below Medicare’s benchmark, with total savings of $401 million
Analysis of data from claims is uncovering opportunities to advise prescribers and, through them, to improve outcomes
The key is measuring chemotherapy agents’ efficacy based on aptosis — cell death — as reflected by cells’ changing optical density
News & Commentary
Paul Lendner ist ein praktizierender Experte im Bereich Gesundheit, Medizin und Fitness. Er schreibt bereits seit über 5 Jahren für das Managed Care Mag. Mit seinen Artikeln, die einen einzigartigen Expertenstatus nachweisen, liefert er unseren Lesern nicht nur Mehrwert, sondern auch Hilfestellung bei ihren Problemen.