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March 2024 Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy Mar 15, 2024   Executive Summary   By law, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission reports to the Congress each March on the Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) payment systems, the Medicare Advantage (MA) program, and the Medicare prescription drug program (Medicare Part D).   In this year’s report, […]

The Synergy of Clinical and Social Care in the US [PNHP] The Synergy of Clinical and Social Care in the US by Eric Reinhart, New England Journal of Medicine April 10, 2024   Clinicism is the reduction of health to individualistic biomedical paradigms that overemphasize clinical perspectives and interventions (even though clinical care is estimated

The US Medical Establishment Is Making One of Its Worst Mistakes—Again by Eric Reinhard and Mary T. Bassett May 21, 2024   The world’s most influential medical journal has finally confronted its failure to address an unfolding genocide—over 80 years after the fact. Last month, the historians Joelle Abi-Rached and Allan Brandt were invited to

Marshall Allen, a Tenacious Health Care Journalist, Dies at 52 by Michael Grabell May 21, 2024   Marshall Allen, a former ProPublica investigative reporter who relentlessly took on the U.S. health care system and fought for the rights of patients facing unfair medical bills, died Sunday at a hospital in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He

Revisiting ‘Left Without Being Seen’ Metrics in the ED by Gregory Jasani, MD May 20, 2024   The “left without being seen” (LWBS) metric hangs around the neck of every emergency department (ED). Among the many numbers and metrics that impact our day-to-day work as emergency medicine physicians, few are as important or problematic as

What’s Driving Healthcare Consolidation? The Answer May Surprise You by Joyce Frieden , Washington Editor, MedPage Today May 21, 2024   WASHINGTON — What is driving consolidation in healthcare? The answer is: consolidation, Erin Fuse Brown, JD, MPH, said Tuesday.   “If all of the other competitors in the market are getting bigger, then in

California health care minimum wage – New estimates for impacts on workers, patients, and the state budget By Laurel Lucia, Enrique Lopezlira and Ken Jacobs February 20, 2024   In October 2023, Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill 525, which will increase the minimum wage for health care workers to $25 per hour in the coming

GAZA’S STOLEN HEALERS: Hundreds of Palestinian Doctors Disappeared Into Israeli Detention By Kavitha Chekuru May 24 2024   IT’S BEEN TWO months since Osaid Alser has heard from his cousin, Khaled Al Serr, a surgeon at Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis.   Before late March, they had been in