Day: November 3, 2011

On The Record (with daily recap)

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

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What is POLST?

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

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Reflex: November 3, 2011

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

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Medicare physician services spending

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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