- Physicians and telehealth: Is it time to embrace virtual visits? (medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com)
Telehealth services…are viewed increasingly as competition by physicians and healthcare systems,… offer remote audio and/or video consultations with physicians on mobile devices or desktop computers…healthcare organizations are…partnering with telehealth services… leading the way into this brave new world of virtual visits.
- The 5 Cardinal Health programs that helped it earn DoD’s Freedom Award (drugstorenews.com)
Cardinal Health earned the award (2015 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award ) for -
- Veterans Leadership and Career Development Program
- Veterans Professional Advancement Course
- Veterans & Military Advocates Employee Resource Group
- Veterans SharePoint site
- Support the Troops Care Package Event
-$1.6 million for the Wounded Warriors Project
- "Welcome Home" events
- Code Blue at Tahoe Pacific Hospital (rgj.com)
State investigation, internal documents and former employees bring to light concerns about shortcomings at Tahoe Pacific Hospital.
-Medical missteps
-Equipment failures
-Untrained staff
-'I ring and ring and ring'
-Not enough nurses
- Four Methods to Help Your Patients Access High Cost Specialty Therapies (specialtypharmacytimes.com)
when options are slim, a continuous balancing act takes place…day between prescribers, payers, manufacturers and specialty pharmacies...By employing a methodology that includes product awareness, formulary understanding, co-pay assistance management and REMS participation, a specialty pharmacy can successfully help patients access high cost specialty therapies.
- ICD-10: CMS won’t deny claims for first year (healthcareitnews.com)
In a surprise concession the American Medical Association...revealed that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will take four steps designed to ease the transition to ICD-10.
- Federal tool details financial links between doctors, medical industry (reviewjournal.com)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Open Payments report,…to detail the financial relationships between health care companies and doctors and hospitals…Nationwide,.. doctors and research hospitals collected nearly $6.5 billion…
■ Dr. Michael Reis…$2.5 million (Carson City)
■ Dr. Fadi Braiteh…$500,000 (Las Vegas)
■ Dr. James Del Rosso…$405,000 (Las Vegas)
■ Drs. Troy Watson…$300,000 (Las Vegas)
- Telehealth and High Deductibles Slow Health Spending (medpagetoday.com)
Health spending in employer-based market is trending downwards... Growth in health spending is expected to decline slightly in 2016 to 6.5%, a step below the 6.8% trend projected for 2015,...
- Drug companies still supplying Greece after ‘No’ vote (ca.news.yahoo.com)
Pharmaceutical companies…continue to supply medicines to Greece for now, despite increased financial uncertainty after Greeks rejected the terms of a rescue package from creditors in a referendum…Drugmakers are owned more than 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) by Greek hospitals and the state-run health insurer, after not being paid since December, but have promised to keep supplying the country on humanitarian grounds.
- A Pharma Payment a Day Keeps Docs’ Finances OK (medpagetoday.com)
..doctors receive big money from the pharmaceutical industry is no surprise. The new data released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services shows that such interactions are widespread, with not only doctors, but thousands of dentists, optometrists, podiatrists and chiropractors....
- Nevada state hospital inspection agency critically understaffed (rgj.com)
Nevada agency (Nevada Bureau of Health Care Quality and Compliance) in charge of making sure hospitals and other health care facilities are following regulations and keeping patients safe is overwhelmed with an "enormous workload" and can't hire enough inspectors to keep up with demand...