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- Board cracks down on pain doctors
- Man shot in head comes out of coma
- 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
| Board cracks down on pain doctors Posted: 6/5/2009 © South Florida Sun-Sentinel The Florida Board of Medicine leveled stricter-than-usual penalties today against doctors found to have doled out narcotic painkillers excessively or improperly. A bill that would give the board more authority over rogue pain clinics awaits action from the governor. | ||
| Man shot in head comes out of coma Posted: 6/4/2009 © Northwest Florida Daily News Rion Tilton, 22, who has been unconscious for more than a week after being shot in the head, surprised his doctors by coming out of his coma. | ||
| 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. |
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