On The Record (with daily recap)
Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin takes another look at Romney’s reform ideas, and reviews the inconsistent way we worry about exchanges depending upon the age of the patients involved, Don wants to get the language straight on palliative care, and discusses the first lawsuit for not following a POLST fo
On The Record (with daily recap)
CBO: Some Context for Thinking About Deficit Reduction: Soc Sec and Health Care CBO: Some Context for Thinking About Deficit Reduction: Other Spending RWJF: Lessons Learned: A Community’s Approach to Reducing Readmissions RWJF: The Role of Exchanges in Quality Improvement Today in TIE: Reflex, Austi
Most preventable medical errors do not result in a paid claim
Paid physician malpractice claims for adverse events in 2009 (from Bishop, Ryan & Casalino in this week’s JAMA): Inpatient 4910 Outpatient 4448 Both 966 Total 10,739 By way of comparison (my calculations): Incidence Number of US hospitals 5,795 <1 per hospital/year Number of admissions 37,479,709 0.
CBO on effect of defunding ACA implementation
CBO has sent a letter to Rep. Waxman addressing his question about …budgetary effects of legislation that would permanently prevent the use of appropriated funds to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) and provisions related to health care in the Health Care and E
rwjf：学校护士保持健康并准备学习GAO：2012年IRS 2012年预算，包括ACA GAO：VA信息技术面临正在进行的管理挑战GAO：减少医院紧急部门CBO使用的健康中心战略：国家和本地养老金的资金不足CMS Medicare Learning Network：在PATIENT REHABS上的事实表：在Port necribance上的事实表现出纪录，该记录是该记录的备受纪录[…]。
我们正在使用TIE的常规功能，这是每日帖子“记录”的帖子，它是@incidentalecon的综述，使用#tienews标签#tienews，它将提供有关相关健康政策相关信息的链接。目的是及时地链接到NIH等政府资源的信息，[…]记录中首次出现在偶然的经济学家上。
Pro-Competition vs. Pro-Business
Jay Greene of The Detroit Free Press (h/t Kaiser Health News) reports, The regulation — which establishes a competitive bidding process for companies that provide medical home equipment to Medicare patients and also limits the number of companies under contract — could drive out of business up to 90
