Posts Tagged ‘Medicare’
Medicare updates reimbursement criteria for “maintenance” therapy services
A Quiet “Sea Change” in Medicare (The New York Times): “In January, Medicare officials updated the agency’s policy manual –the rule book for everything Medicare does– to erase any notion that improvement
Read MoreDementia costs more than heart disease, and cancer. And it will balloon.
Dementia Care Cost Is Projected to Double by 2040 (The New York Times): “The most rigorous study to date of how much it costs to care for Americans with dementia found that the financial burden is at least as high as that of heart disease or cancer, and is probably higher. And both the costs and the…
Read MoreMedicare to update reimbursement criteria for degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, MS, Parkinson’s disease
What Medicare Will Cover Even if You’re Not Likely to Get Better (The New York Times): “Should the federal government cover the costs of many kinds of treatments for patients who aren’t going to get any better? It didn’t, for many years. But after the settlement of a landmark class-action this week, Medicare will soon
Read MoreWill Medicare’s Annual Wellness Visit enhance physical & cognitive health? Probably — if people go
The annual wellness visit: An opportunity to improve revenue and patient care (PhysBizTech): “Medicare recently introduced the Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) to keep Medicare beneficiaries healthy, or help Medicare beneficiaries become healthier, by promoting positive health habits and a healthy lifestyle. Unlike
Read MoreWorking with Healthcare Stakeholders towards Brain-Based Personalized Medicine
(Editor’s Note: this is Part 3 of the new 3‑part series written by Dr. Evian Gordon drawing from his participation at the Personalized Medicine World Congress on January, 23, 2012 at Stanford University.) Working with Health Care Industry Stakeholders: Clinicians, Pharma/Biotech, Payers, PBMs, Lawyers, Medicare, FDA Clinicians seek clear validated “rules of thumb” that can be…
Read MoreThe Future of Preventive Brain Medicine: Breaking Down the Cognition & Alzheimer’s Disease Alphabet Soup
As the president and medical director of the Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention Foundation (ARPF), it’s my job to stay on top of advances in the field of Alzheimer’s research. Recently, a number of articles in the medical literature have caught my attention. They are focused on a particular question that concerns most Baby Boomers like…
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