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Category: Health care costs
Happy Accident Lowers Healthcare Costs
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) increased emphasis on quality reporting for doctors and hospitals in an effort to improve care and, hopefully, improve health outcomes for patients. Whether or not this will be accomplished is yet to be seen. However, Continue Reading …
Coverage that Doesn’t Cover It
As a medical student living in Texas, two things are very familiar to me: having uninsured family members and being solicited by said family members for medical advice. A few weeks ago, a relative approached me at a family BBQ Continue Reading …
Protecting the Good Doctors
A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine examined whether protecting doctors from could curb unnecessary health care costs, particularly in the emergency department where patients are high-risk and information about patients is often incomplete. This environment, Continue Reading …
Don’t Sue Me Bro
You walk into your doctor’s office with a headache. Like most people, before you made the appointment you did a quick Google search with your symptoms, and are now convinced you have a brain tumor—a meningioma maybe. WebMD says that Continue Reading …
Cheating the system
The controversial practice of using electronic health record (EHR) systems to “upcode” Medicare claims has attracted the attention of policymakers and triggered targeted audits by the Department of Health and Human Services. “Upcoding” refers to the selection of billing codes Continue Reading …