CBPP: Comparison of Dem and Repub supercommittee deficit plans Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin on Medicare physician spending and on the blog economy running on
This, from Brad DeLong, is really important. It may not be obvious to most people, but the viability of TIE, and likely other blogs, depends
Glaxo settled with the USG this week (WSJ), agreeing to pay $3 billion on charges of off-label promotion and several other issues. (For general background
My friends are all aflutter about the news that drinking alcohol – pretty much any alcohol – increases the risk of breast cancer: Context Multiple studies
It stands for Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST), and Helen Kao writes about hating the forms even as she uses them daily. She
Doctors will face a 27.4% pay cut from Medicare on Jan 1, reports the Associated Press. And Modern Healthcare. And Kaiser Health News. “It’s become a regular exercise
A NEJM paper by John Iglehart, Medicare Payment Reform — Proposals for Paying for an SGR Repeal, includes the following figure documenting Medicare spending for physician
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