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- Cancer discoveries unveiled in FL
- CEO turns down bonus
- Reform could trim HMO extras
- Mental health bill moving
- FL Medicaid plans' scores low
- Surgeon takes flight to cut costs
- New Medicaid pilot in the works?
- Doctors still push PSA screening
- USF offers free e-coaching for doctors
- Coalition: Protect drug access
- Reform could cost hospitals $4B
- Crist wants to merge health agencies
- Local docs now part of drug trials
- Fairness to doctors or 'gag order' on patients?
| Cancer discoveries unveiled in FL Posted: 5/31/2009 New York Times The benefits of Tamoxifen, which 500,000 U.S. women take to prevent recurrence of breast cancer, are virtually wiped out if patients also take common anti-depressants, cancer specialists meeting in Orlando learned on Saturday. But on Sunday, they heard good news about cancer vaccines. | ||
| Posted: Joseph Boshart, CEO of Boca Raton health-staffing firm Cross Country Healthcare, turned down a bonus of nearly $200,000, saying it wouldn't be appropriate at a time of layoffs and losses. | ||
| Posted: 5/31/2009 © Sun-Sentinel Medicare beneficiaries in South Florida are accused to HMOs offering them freebies like dental and eyeglasses because of the sky-high federal payments the plans receive, double the national average. But that extra cash may soon disappear, and the free dental may go with it. Also, here's a summary of what's happening in health reform in Washington. | ||
| Posted: A bill called “the most important mental health bill” in 30 years passed a House panel on Monday and will come before a key Senate committee on Wednesday. The bill would divert many of the state’s 70,000 mental patients from prisons to treatment. Its only opposition is the cash-strapped budget. | ||
| Posted: 4/3/2009 © Health News Florida Florida pays managed-care plans $2.5 billion a year to make sure Medicaid patients in the state get proper preventive care and treatment. New data from 2008 show Florida plans' performance fell far below the national average, and near the bottom in care for infants, pregnant women and the mentally ill. | ||
| Surgeon takes flight to cut costs Posted: 4/2/2009 © Health News Florida Some patients travel to get a price break, but how many take their surgeons with them? Last month, Miami-area surgeon Arnon Krongrad flew to Trinidad with one of his prostate cancer patients so that the uninsured man could afford the procedure he wanted. | ||
| New Medicaid pilot in the works? Posted: 3/30/2009 © Florida Health News Medicaid Reform could branch off in a new direction under a proposal that could emerge from a House committee this week. It would set up "medical homes" for patients using community health centers, based on the famed Mayo Clinic model of having a whole team consulting on a patient's needs in one site. | ||
| Doctors still push PSA screening Posted: 3/27/2009 © Palm Beach Post Studies have found little benefit to the PSA blood test used to screen for prostate cancer, yet doctors still push it. Patients, too. | ||
| USF offers free e-coaching for doctors Posted:
A lot of doctors say they can't afford to adopt electronic prescribing. Others need technical help. Today, USF's top doctor Stephen Klasko and Allscripts Inc. announced an end to both barriers with free software and 1-on-1 in-training in doctors' offices in up to 10 counties. | ||
| Coalition: Protect drug access Posted: 3/10/2009 © Florida Health News USF psychiatrist Michael Bengtson advises the Florida Medicaid program on which drugs need to be readily available. But even he can't always get the drugs his patients need, he says, because the process is "murky." Consumer groups agree; they've formed a coalition to keep drugs available at a time of budget cuts. | ||
| Reform could cost hospitals $4B Posted: 2/27/2009 © Florida Health News A former state health official says if Florida’s Medicaid Reform plan is expanded statewide it will cost hospitals nearly $4 billion a year in uninsured emergency-room visits and make it difficult for patients to get immediate treatment. | ||
| Crist wants to merge health agencies Posted: By Christine Jordan Sexton 2/25/2009 © Florida Health News Gov. Charlie Crist is reportedly preparing to recommend a merger of the two largest state health agencies into one, a proposal that would affect thousands of state employees. He also wants to keep Medicaid “Reform” unchanged and increase the fees doctors and HMOs get for treating the poor. | ||
| Local docs now part of drug trials Posted: 2/22/2009 © Palm Beach Post Twenty years ago most drug trials were done in academic medical centers. Today, doctors in the community are getting paid to do the trials, giving patients access to the newest medications. | ||
| Fairness to doctors or 'gag order' on patients? Posted: 2/13/2009 © Florida Health News Some Florida doctors now require patients to sign an agreement promising not to post Internet comments about them without permission. Some say it's "an attempt to steal the consumer's right to free speech," but doctors say it's a matter of fairness. |
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