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One of the real recent advances in health care, in my humble opinion, was the organization of compassionate, palliative care for people at t...

In 2007, readers of the Annals of Internal Medicine could read part of the solution to a great medical mystery.(1)  For years, health care c...

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported a legal settlement worth noting.  Here are the basics: One of the nation's largest providers of...

An article from the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) reveals a new aspect of the growing coziness between the US government and big c...

We open the week with yet another story of a large health care organization found by the judicial process to have misbehaved. Here is the st...

Since 2007, we have been writing about the secretive RUC (RBRVS Update Committee), the private AMA committee that somehow has managed to ge...

On July 7, President Obama appointed Dr. Donald Berwick as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Dr. Berwic...

Last week, the influential New England Journal of Medicine published an article by Bruce Vladek entitled "Fixing Medicare's Physici...

Health IT is serving another unexpected purpose: it's becoming a landmine for fraud. In " Health care: A 'goldmine' for fr...

An important part of the noisy and contentious debate about health care reform in the US centers on the role of the government as a provider...