- Issue:January 2010
Pilot Project Excludes Medicare Payments for Primary Care
Capping off a year of hard-fought debate over reforming healthcare, and specifically health insurance, the Mayo Clinic made holiday-season headlines with the initiation of a 2-year pilot project involving a 5-physician family practice clinic in Glendale, Arizona, that has opted out of accepting Medicare payments for primary care starting January 1. Initially announced in October, the decision to temporarily stop accepting Medicare reimbursement for primary car
- Issue:January 2010
Increases in total national healthcare costs have slowed
along with the rest of the economy, but health spending continues to grow
faster than gross domestic product (GDP). New National Health Expenditure
Accounts (NHEA) data released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
(CMS) show that health spending in the United States grew by 4.4% in 2008, and
the portion of GDP devoted to healthcare continues to increase. Meanwhile, the
number of new pharmaceuticals approved by the US Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) remained stable in 2009, and spending on pr
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San Francisco—With the advent of transdermal
methods of dispensing medication for the treatment of
overactive bladder (OAB), patients have the opportunity
to experience positive outcomes while avoiding some
of the side effects associated with oral formulations.
During the 2009 Society of Urologic Nurses and
Associates Annual Symposium, Diane Newman, RNC,
MSN, CRNP, FAAN, who is the codirector of the Penn
Center for Continence and Pelvic Health at the
University of Pennsylvania Health System in Phil -
adelphia, provided a presentation on the application of
oxybutynin chloride topic
GENOMIC-BASED ASSAYS ON DEMAND WEBCASTS
