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Mini-stroke Patients Get Better Care In Hospitals With Stroke Services
Patients who suffer from transient ischaemic attack (so-called "mini-strokes") are more likely to receive rapid assessment and care if they attend a hospital which has organised stroke care services, according to the results of a survey published in the Medical Journal of Australia.
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Acceleron To Present ACE-031 Preclinical Study Results As Treatment For Loss Of Muscle Mass And Function
Acceleron Pharma, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics that modulate the growth of cells and tissues including red blood cells, bone, and muscle, today announced it will provide three oral presentations on data from its ACE-031 program at the Endocrine Society"s 91st Annual Meeting to be held in Washington, DC from June 10-13, 2009. The presentations will provide results from preclinical studies highlighting the effects of its lead investigational product for treating diseases involving the loss of muscle mass and function.
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Insurers Underpaid 'Billions' In Health Claims
The Senate Commerce Committee has found that a flawed payment database produced by a UnitedHealth subsidiary and distributed to other major insurance companies has led insurers to underpay millions of out-of-network claims, forcing patients to make up the difference of health care providers" fees, the Wall Street Journal reports. Aetna, Cigna, WellPoint, and other large insurers used the data to calculate their "reasonable and customary" charges. They also provided UnitedHealth"s subsidiary, Ingenix, with historic data about their payments, which became the foundation of ongoing versions of the flawed payment models.
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Proposed Budget Cuts Worry Hospitals

The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires reports on reaction to the Obama administration"s proposed cuts that may acutely affect hospitals. It notes: "President Obama last weekend called for $313 billion in savings over 10 years through adjustments in Medicare and Medicaid payments - a plan that a "deeply disappointed" American Hospital Association said would mean $220 billion in payment cuts to hospitals, on top of billions in other proposed Medicare cuts." The Journal reported that Tenet Healthcare Corp. CEO Trevor Fetter thinks "the Obama administration may be asking hospitals to bear too great a burden for helping pay for an expansion of medical coverage to uninsured Americans, although full details of the president"s latest financing proposal have yet to emerge." The Journal reports, "Obama proposed, among other savings, reducing government subsidies to hospitals for treating the uninsured as more people are covered. That makes sense, yet could pose problems if funds are cut while hospitals continue to care for large amounts of uninsured patients, Fetter said." "While hospitals stand to benefit significantly if policy makers extend medical coverage to the more than 45 million uninsured Americans, the timing of that expansion and any spending cuts needed to help pay for it is crucial since a mistake could "have catastrophic results," Fetter said," according to the Journal. He also expressed concern about the effects of rising unemployment and said that now hospitals are "getting paid literally nothing from a large portion of our patient population," and are paid less than the cost of treatment for their Medicaid patients (Brin, 6/17). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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