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- Crist signs controversial PPO bill
- Model: Green Bay, the anti-Miami
- UM tests online link for diabetics
- State capital's trauma center official
- Little things influence doctors, UM finds
- Health costs for Miami family: $20K
- FL health leaders: We can cut costs
- Center offers unusual spinal therapy
- New safety-net clinic called 'godsend'
- High-tech fight over cancer patients
- Controversial medical ratings sites proliferate
- Veto fight heats up on doctors' pay
- When these docs talk, others listen
- Doctor not guilty on molesting charges
- 1,100 VA patients didn't respond
- Dr. pleads guilty in huge theft
| Crist signs controversial PPO bill Posted: Gov. Charlie Crist sided with doctors and signed a hotly debated health insurance bill (SB 1122) that had been opposed by Blue Cross and Blue Shield and some consumer advocates. He said it will improve access to care as well as payment for doctors. He also signed into law a kidney transplant bill. |
| Model: Green Bay, the anti-Miami Posted: 6/11/2009 © Washington Post Today, President Obama visits Green Bay, Wis., one of the highest-value health communities in the nation. There, Medicare patients' health is at least as good as in Miami but costs dramatically less. |
| UM tests online link for diabetics Posted: 6/11/2009 © Miami Herald If low-income diabetics frequently communicate with nurses online, will they stay healthier? Microsoft and the University of Miami are testing the theory on 25 patients from Overtown. |
| State capital's trauma center official Posted: 6/11/2009 © Tallahassee Democrat Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare will be designated as a Level II trauma center on July 1. Before the facility gained provisional trauma status last year, Tallahassee was the only urban area in Florida not served by a trauma center. |
| Little things influence doctors, UM finds Posted: 5/18/2009 New York Times Doctors like to think they're impervious to drug-company influence. But a University of Miami study found that even little things, like cups and pens, have an insidious pull. |
| Health costs for Miami family: $20K Posted: Private healthcare costs in Miami are the highest of 14 major U.S. cities in a consulting firm's report. A family of four with a PPO averaged $20,282 in health costs last year, almost 21 percent above average. |
| FL health leaders: We can cut costs Posted: 5/16/2009 © Miami Herald Dying patients could spend their last hours at home instead of in intensive care. Legal protections would let doctors run just the tests that matter, not every conceivable one. South Florida health-industry leaders offer ideas on how to curb the region's excessive costs. |
| Center offers unusual spinal therapy Posted: 5/16/2009 © Orlando Sentinel Step It Up Recovery Center Inc. in Sanford, launched by the mother of a quadriplegic, uses a controversial exercise-based program to retrain the nervous system of patients with spinal-cord injuries. |
| New safety-net clinic called 'godsend' Posted: 5/15/2009 © Palm Beach Post The Community Health Center in Palm Springs, opened in April, treats patients regardless of their financial situation. This health center has been the goal of community leaders for years, as the uninsured rate in the Palm Springs and Lake Worth area is nearly 25 percent, which exceeds the 19 percent county average. |
| High-tech fight over cancer patients Posted: 5/17/2009 © Florida Times-Union With photon beams, proton beams, and the CyberKnife, Jacksonville medical institutions are using high-tech treatments to compete for patients. |
| Controversial medical ratings sites proliferate Posted: 5/18/2009 © St. Petersburg Times It makes some doctors uncomfortable, but the popularity of online rating sites keeps growing. See Health News Florida's report on the attempt by some medical offices to keep patients from participating. |
| Veto fight heats up on doctors' pay Posted: and Carol Gentry 5/14/2009 © Health News Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's mailbag is full of letters and e-mails about an insurance bill that hasn't even arrived at his office yet. Consumer groups seek a veto, while doctors' groups implore Crist to sign it. The finger-pointing has become downright personal for at least one consumer advocate. |
| When these docs talk, others listen Posted: 5/14/2009 © USA Today Qforma, a New Mexico firm that combs databases to identify opinion leaders in the medical field, includes 364 Florida doctors on the list. Find out who's on it. |
| Doctor not guilty on molesting charges Posted: 5/14/2009 © St. Petersburg Times Dr. Kayode Sotonwa said he is eager to return to medical practice following the jury's acquittal on charges of touching female patients inappropriately. But he said he'll set up shop somewhere besides Largo, where at one time as many as 16 patients had complained. |
| 1,100 VA patients didn't respond Posted: 5/13/2009 © Miami Herald It's been seven weeks since the VA sent notices to 3,000 patients saying they might have been exposed to hepatitis or HIV by improperly cleaned colonoscopy equipment. Nearly 1,100 have not responded for testing, and officials wonder why. |
| Dr. pleads guilty in huge theft Posted: 5/8/2009 © Miami Herald Carmen Lourdes del Cueto, a Miami physician who pleaded guilty in March to a $10 million Medicare scam, gave the same plea Thursday to a separate $19.5 million theft she carried out with four other doctors and the owner of an HIV infusion clinic. |
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