#89: Policy for Neurology, Installment #6 [23:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (594)

Policy for Neurology - Plans and strategies impacting your patients and your practice

Hear these reports:

• Bush Issues Second Stem Cell Veto
• AARP To Offer Health Insurance
• ALS Registry Legislation Introduced
• MD’s Call For More Funding For Disaster Planning
• More Medical Schools, Slots Needed To Fill Md Shortage
• Small Practices Decline
• AMA: Investigate Store Clinics
• Pay For Reporting Programmed Launched In July
• Federal Team Arrests 38 For Medicare Billing Fraud
• CMS Projects Medicare Fee Cut Of 9.9% In 2008

Weblinks:

• ABC survey shows essentially 70% of Americans support stem cell research.
• Military service linked to ALS.
• ALS caused by toxic brain levels of the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate.

Next week’s show: Infection-Inflammation: Calor, Dolor, Rubor, Tumor for the 21st century Neurologist (7th installment).

 

 #52: Policy for Neurology: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (502)

Plans and Strategies Impacting Your Patients and Your Practice. This is our 4th installment of ‘P4N.’

Publication Date: Jan 12, 2007.

Disclaimer: The reports in Clinical Neurology News take a neutral position on Medicare issues. Dr. William Campbell Douglass III MD, MS makes this Report about Medicare more personal: Is the recently legislated Medicare ‘Pay-for-Performance’ (P4P) program all about creating ‘quality health care’ for America’s seniors? Or is it a masked attempt to try to fix, to save, the government-based healthcare plan? If so, is the attempted fix being done at your - and other U.S. doctor’s - expense? If so, how? Could the hoped-for solution be all about the ‘missing variable’ in the quality-cost equation: time - your time? Could you become the ’sacrificial lamb’ - the scapegoat - if the P4P experiment fails?

Also, what percent of doctors may feel that Medicare Part D is too complicated, increases their day-to-day hassles, and puts a burden on themselves or their staff? And ‘Experts Call for FDA Reform’: Vioxx-FDA whistle-blower Dr. David Graham in the spotlight again. Last But Not Least: Got the ‘Neurology Recertification Blues’? Dr. John Whyte from Discovery Health Channel may have a remedy for you!

Show website reference: www.abpn.com.

 

 #38 - Reign Over Pain, Installment #3 [38:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (578)

This is installment #3 of Reign Over Pain — Commanding news you can use to benefit your hurting patients — with focus on headache.

Publication Date: 10/06/06.

Show notes: It’s all things headache-related today. Shortchanged by Medicare in your treatment of headache? We have some secrets, which may help you get paid what you deserve. And would you send your pediatric migraine patient to an adult ED? And much more, like, what are your thoughts on using placebos in clinical practice? Also, who is “Cranium Commando”?

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