The state budget and an implementing bill signed this week by Gov. Rick Scott would delay the phasing in of Medicaid managed care plans for dentistry, but Scott made clear he would support the plans in the future. The language would require the agency to continue allowing dentists to bill for Medicaid patients under the …
Medicaid remains the black sheep of the health care reform litigation. Before the six-and-a-half hours of oral argument at the end of March, commentators focused primarily on whether Congress may require a minimum level of health insurance coverage. Even the number of amicus briefs filed about 23 on the Medicaid issue versus about 78 on …
Perhaps ObamaCare will be remembered as the breaking point for top-down planning. There is not enough information available for the government to micromanage a system as complex as health care, which represents more than 15% of the economy. Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek wrote some 50 years ago about the “pretence of knowledge,” meaning the conceit …
The Eric Pfeiffer PET Imaging Center, named in honor of Dr. Pfeiffer (above), houses the first onsite PET scanner in an Alzheimer’s facility in Florida. via » Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute.
The test uses a chemical called florbetapir, known by the brand name Amyvid, which is a radioactive agent that tags clumps of a sticky substance called an amyloid. Amyloid proteins are hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease. The chemical, which costs $1,600 per dose, then is detected using a brain imaging technique called positron emission tomography, known …
The Obama administration’s budget proposal to cut defense spending, in part, by increasing the cost of health care for retired service members has riled veterans groups and members of Congress. via TRICARE fee increases: Hikes in cost of veterans health care draw fire – POLITICO.com.
Kelly Greene has written an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal about the purchase of long term care insurance. The LTC insurance industry is in flux for reasons Kelly Greene describes below. Long-term-care insurance: It can make the difference between living out your life the way you want and becoming a burden to your family …
The Age of Double Standards. Although this article addresses the historical issue of debtors, debtors prisons, and Bankruptcy, I find it interesting as the Health Care System evolves. The Number One reason for personal bankruptcy is health care bills As Health Care restructures its delivery system, watch large health care systems work their way through bankruptcy. …
A cut of 60.5 million a year will effect Florida Nursing Homes in a big way. These cuts are effecting how the Nursing Homes are paid by Medicaid for those residents that have not paid there bills. There is an a way that the Nursing Home industry can add the bad debt to their cost of doing business, …