Managed Care Weekly Digest

Medical Appliances & Equipment - Baptist Hospital East adopts TandemHeart(R), designed to offer new hope to heart patients

Medicare and Medicaid - Brooklyn Physical Therapy Clinic Executive and Three Employees Charged in Health Care Fraud Scheme

Internet Software & Services - CGI Selected as Part of Team to Deliver Statewide Medicaid Management Information System for California Department of Health Care Services

Managed Care - Centene Corporation to Acquire Arkansas Health Plan Administrator

Craniocerebral Trauma - Children's well-being another casualty of recession

Heart Disease - Cholesterol Self-Testing Technology Making Strides as Economic and Demographic Trends Foster Increased Demand

Information & Delivery Services - DST Technologies Launches AWD10

Deloitte - Despite Spotlight on Health Care Reform, Consumers Still Do Not Understand the U.S. Health Care System: Deloitte Survey

Medicare and Medicaid - Elder Law Seminars Hosted by Flushing House

Electronic Medical Records - End-to-End Use of MedInformatix EMR Helps Gulf Coast Orthopedics Exceed MGMA Best Practices

HealthCompare - HealthCompare Commits as First Sponsor for World Fitness Day

Business News - Healthcare Reform - Curse or Cure

Medicare and Medicaid - Medicare Provides Assistance to Help Low-Income Beneficiaries Get Big Savings on Prescription Drug Costs

HIV/AIDS - Miami Clinic Consultant Convicted in $5.8 Million Fraudulent HIV Infusion Scheme

Heart Failure - Most patients lack early follow-up care after heart failure hospitalization

Managed Care - NCPA Applauds Rep. Weiner for Introducing Bill to Rein in Pharmacy Benefit Manager Practices That Hurt Patients, Plan Sponsors and Community Pharmacies

International Brotherhood of Teamsters - New Hampshire School Bus Drivers Choose Teamsters Union

Psychiatry - New NAPHS Annual Survey Tracks Behavioral Treatment Trends

Obesity - New government pay-for-performance policies punish doctors who care for obese patients

Obesity - New studies examine adverse outcomes associated with obesity and more applicable measures of obesity

Biological Products - Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics to Pay More Than $72 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Concerning TOBI

Medicare and Medicaid - PA Apprise Volunteers Honored for Service to Older Adults

Medical Equipment and Supplies - Patient Recruiters and Employee at Houston Medical Equipment Company Plead Guilty to Health Care Fraud Scheme and Illegal Health Care Kickbacks

Medicare and Medicaid - Pay-for-performance programs may worsen medical disparities, study finds

Pennsylvania Insurance Department - Pennsylvania Insurance Department Alerts Consumers to Possible Scams Related to National Health Care Reform Law

Wounded Warrior Project - President Obama Signs Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act

Medicare and Medicaid - Reading level of Medicaid renewal applications often too high

Managed Care - SCAN Health Plan Promotes Lena Perelman to Director of Community Outreach

Medicare and Medicaid - Sandata Chosen to Implement Florida Agency for Health Care Administration Telephonic Home Health Project

Medical Instruments & Supplies - Study Shows Endoscopic Duodenal Stenting Is Associated With Lower Costs and Shorter Hospital Stays Compared To Surgery for Relief of Malignant Gastric Outlet Obstruction

Volunteers of America - Study Shows Women in America Prefer Aging at Home But Many Will Not Have Financial Resources to Do So

Electronic Medical Records - The Jackson Clinic Selects Allscripts Electronic Health Record for 130 Providers

Academic Medical Centers - Urgent changes needed to prepare doctors to care for aging America

Recondo Technology - York Memorial Hospital Selects SurePayHealth From Recondo Technology