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With real-time interactive video and advanced medical software, the Virginia Commonwealth University TeleMedicine Center offers long-distance clinical health care, as well as patient and profession...
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St. Mary #39;s Health Care System - 2015 Women #39;s Choice Award
St. Mary #39;s Heath Care System has earned the 2015 Women #39;s Choice Award as one of America #39;s Best Hospitals for Obstetrics for three consecutive years.
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One of the most consequential unknowns in health care is whether the slow growth in spending over recent years will pick up as the economy recovers. Data suggest that in 2014 growth in health-care spendingaccelerated,rising 5% compared with 3.6% growth in 2013.
The largest cost driver in health care is labor, which representsthree-quarters of ambulatoryand two-thirds of in-patient costs. Patterns in health-care employment and wages may offer insight into future patterns in health-care spending.
Growth in health-care jobs has been constant over the past 25 years: from about 8.2 million in 1990 to 14.8 million in 2014. Even the Great Recession did not stop growth in health-care employment. In the 21stcentury, health care has created about as many jobs as the entire non-health-care economy. Between 1990 and 2013, health care became the dominant source of employment in 35 states. Wages have also grown faster in health care than in most other sectors of the economy in recent years.
But the health-care sector cannot continue to add well-paying jobs without eventually passing on those costs. Its something of a mystery to economists why this hasnt occurred in recent years. One possibility is that other, non-labor expenses decreased dramatically, partially buffering the impact of rising labor costs. This has occurred with spending on pharmaceuticals, which has fallen in recent years. But drugs account for only about 10% of total U.S. health spending and are not enough on their own to explain the magnitude of the overall spending slowdown. In addition, drug costs are rising again because of powerful, and expensive, specialty pharmaceuticals: They were up13.1% in 2014. With both labor and pharma costs rising, national health expenditures are likely to rise as well.
Growth in health-care employment has helped to ease the pain of the Great Recession. Eventually, however, something has to give, and that is likely be the pocketbooks of those who pay for care.
David Blumenthal, who was the national coordinator for health information technology from 2009 to 2011, is president of the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that researches health and social policy issues. He is on Twitter: @DavidBlumenthal. David Squires is senior researcher to the president at the Commonwealth Fund.
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TALLAHASSEE The Florida House and Senate rolled out vastly different health care spending plans Thursday, putting the two chambers on a collision course over the state's $77 billion budget.
The dueling health care proposals are $5 billion apart more than the entire budget for the state of Vermont.
The Senate version includes $2.8 billion in federal money to pay for expanded health care coverage, something the House adamantly opposes. It also includes a $2.2 billion program known as the Low Income Pool (or LIP) that helps hospitals treat uninsured, under-insured and Medicaid patients.
Reaching consensus on the two issues will be difficult and could require an extended or special legislative session. For now, leaders in both chambers are holding firm.
"Those are the Senate's priorities," Senate Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Ren Garca, R-Hialeah, said Thursday.
The stakes are high. The final budget could expand coverage to nearly 1 million poor Floridians or result in dramatic cuts to safety-net hospitals across the state.
Building the health care budget is more complicated than usual this year because the LIP program is set to end on June 30. The federal government has said it may be willing to approve a replacement program, but no deal has been reached.
There's also the issue of Medicaid expansion, a provision of the federal Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
For the past two years, House Republicans have rejected billions of federal dollars to extend health care coverage to the poor. The Senate is hoping to tap into the money this year, saying it would help hospitals pay for uncompensated care if LIP disappears.
The Senate's proposed $35.2 billion health care budget includes $2.2 billion in LIP money. It also includes a LIP replacement program that would distribute the money to all hospitals based on the services they provide, rather than targeting a few select hospitals.
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Officials highlighted a number of initiatives that have helped both prevent health-care fraud and recoup federal money. Those steps included increased funding to expand the Medicare Fraud Strike Force to nine geographic territories.
Authorities said efforts by the strike force and other initiatives led the Justice Department to open 924 new criminal health-care fraud probes in fiscal 2014. Federal prosecutors actually filed criminal charges in nearly 500 cases, involving more than 800 defendants, and 734 defendants were convicted of health-care-related fraud that year.
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Officials also noted how the Affordable Care Act requires the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to use new screening requirements to revalidate all 1.5 million Medicare suppliers and providers.
"As a result of this and other proactive initiatives, CMS has deactivated 470,000 enrollments and revoked nearly 28,000 enrollments to prevent certain providers from re-enrolling and billing the Medicare program," officials said. "Both of these actions immediately stop billing."
CMS also continued a temporary moratorium on the enrollment of new home health and ambulance service providers in six metropolitan areas considered "hot spots" for health fraud: Miami, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Detroit and Philadelphia.
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WASHINGTON With more than 50 congressional repeal votes, a near-death Supreme Court experience and a botched marketplace debut to its credit, the Affordable Care Act has had a tortured five-year existence as the Republican Partys legislative enemy No. 1.
And since President Barack Obama signed the health care measure into law on March 23, 2010, its troubled legislative history isnt close to being fully written.
Yet another Supreme Court case threatens to topple one of the laws main pillars, theres bipartisan support in Congress to eliminate the tax on medical devices one of the laws primary funding mechanisms and a slight majority of Americans still have negative views of the sprawling legislation.
But despite the political head winds, experts say Obamas legacy-defining law is quietly accomplishing the goals it was created to achieve.
The nations uninsured rate has plummeted as more Americans enroll in Medicaid or in federal and state marketplace coverage.
The laws consumer protections and insurance-benefit requirements have improved the quality of coverage for millions of people who get health insurance outside the workplace.
Premiums for marketplace health insurance have largely been reasonable and have increased only moderately thus far. Long-term cost estimates for providing coverage under the law have been falling.
Early Congressional Budget Office projections showed the law would trim the federal budget deficit by $124 billion from 2010 to 2019, while its repeal would increase the deficit by more than $100 billion from 2013 to 2022. The CBO cant update the laws projected impact on the deficit because of forecasting difficulties.
While its too soon to declare a summary judgment on the law, its early success usually would quiet most naysayers.
Most of the dire predictions made by the critics of the ACA have not come to pass, said Drew Altman, president and CEO of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Officials highlighted a number of initiatives that have helped both prevent health-care fraud and recoup federal money. Those steps included increased funding to expand the Medicare Fraud Strike Force to nine geographic territories.
Authorities said efforts by the strike force and other initiatives led the Justice Department to open 924 new criminal health-care fraud probes in fiscal 2014. Federal prosecutors actually filed criminal charges in nearly 500 cases, involving more than 800 defendants, and 734 defendants were convicted of health-care-related fraud that year.
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Officials also noted how the Affordable Care Act requires the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to use new screening requirements to revalidate all 1.5 million Medicare suppliers and providers.
"As a result of this and other proactive initiatives, CMS has deactivated 470,000 enrollments and revoked nearly 28,000 enrollments to prevent certain providers from re-enrolling and billing the Medicare program," officials said. "Both of these actions immediately stop billing."
CMS also continued a temporary moratorium on the enrollment of new home health and ambulance service providers in six metropolitan areas considered "hot spots" for health fraud: Miami, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Detroit and Philadelphia.
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Health care stocks were notching strong gains Friday with the NYSE Health Care Sector Index climbing more than 0.9% and shares of health care companies in the S&P 500 also rising almost 0.9% as a group.
In company news, Celgene ( CELG ) shares climbed to an all-time high Friday after the drugmaker reported that patients with plaque psoriasis maintained improved symptoms over the long term.
The company said improvements in the severity of preexisting nail, scalp and palmoplantar psoriasis achieved at week 16 were maintained in Otezla responders through week 52. Long-term safety profile for up to 104 weeks in ESTEEM 1 was consistent with previously reported data from Otezla clinical trial programs, with no new safety signals and no clinically meaningful changes in laboratory values.
CELG was up 1.5% at $127.26 each in late trade, earlier topping out at a new all-time high of $129.06 a share.
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In company news, Biogen Idec ( BIIB ) jumped to an all-time high Friday morning after interim results from Phase Ib testing of its aducanumab drug candidate indicated the experimental drug treatment reduced amyloid plaque in the brains of patients with prodromal or mild Alzheimer's disease.
Statistically significant declines of amyloid plaque were seen in both the 3 milligrams and the 10 milligrams per kilogram study arms, the company said, adding the drug also demonstrated an acceptable safety profile and positive results on radiologic and clinical measurements.
"This is the first time an investigational drug for Alzheimer's disease has demonstrated a statistically significant reduction on amyloid plaque as well as a statistically significant slowing of clinical impairment in patients with prodromal or mild disease," said Dr. Alfred Sandrock, chief medical officer at BIIB. "Based on these results, we are advancing the aducanumab clinical program to Phase 3 with plans to initiate enrollment later this year."
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Watch Frozen Elsa in Flu Doctor Game Episode-Frozen Princess Movie Games-Flu Doctor Games
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March 18th 2015 Health Ministry denies vaccine shortage reports AK
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Was 1911 Health Care Better Than Obamacare? - This Forgotten Day in Houston
March 19, 1911: On this day, the State Medical Institute #39;s rather wordy ad made quite the promise: "Pay Us When You Are Completely Cured." What are your thoughts on this philosphy 104 years...
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Obama visits VA clinic amid questions on veteran care
U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant (Ret) Jessie Jane Duff and U.S. Marine Corps Dan Caldwell (Ret) on Obama vitisng lawmakers over the VA clinic health care crisis. Watch Gerri Willis talk...
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