By Amanda Patanow on
5/23/2010
Democrats in Congress have proposed easing a planned cut in payments to doctors under Medicare in an effort to stem an expected shortage of primary care doctors and address the top issue for physicians who backed health reform.
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By Amanda Patanow on
5/23/2010
On Thursday morning, federal agents and Tampa police swooped down on a pain management clinic in Tampa, surprising scores of people waiting for prescriptions, many of them parked in out-of-state vans. Neighboring businesses celebrated as though released from bondage.
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By Amanda Patanow on
5/16/2010
At a warehouse in New Jersey, 6,000 used copy machines sit ready to be sold. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports almost every one of them holds a secret.
Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive - like the one on your personal computer - storing an image of every document copied, scanned, or emailed by the machine.
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By Amanda Patanow on
5/16/2010
Grace Medical Home is an example of a new "holistic" model of health care, offering patients treatment, prevention and immunization, healthy-lifestyle advice, monitoring of chronic conditions and help from a social worker in signing up for medication-assistance programs or other aid. Eventually, it could serve up to 24,000 people a year.
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By Amanda Patanow on
5/16/2010
Healthcare providers have to know how to use electronic medical records and practice management systems in order to get the best clinical and financial results, he said, and those results are going to be used the basis to judge success.
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By Amanda Patanow on
5/9/2010
Congressional lawmakers later this month will begin discussing new proposals to delay a scheduled 21% cut in Medicare physician reimbursements and consider new ways to permanently fix the current payment formula.
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