News and Changes Affecting IDTFs

Common-Sense Medicine : Will medical studies of dubious validity decide whether you get life-saving treatment?
POSTED: 12/6/2010 9:33:16 AM

By: Marc Siegel For lung experts everywhere, there has never been much controversy about smoking and lung cancer. If patients stop smoking, their risk of lung cancer drops dramatically. If they don’t, our best chance to save them is to detect th… more

How Obamacare Burdens Already Strained State Budgets
POSTED: 12/6/2010 9:29:38 AM

By Richard Cole Special to the Star-Telegram Texas is reportedly facing a $20 billion or more budget shortfall. Coincidentally, this amount closely matches Texas' portion of costs for participating in the Medicaid program. Medicaid is the shared s… more

How Obamacare Burdens Already Strained State Budgets
POSTED: 12/6/2010 9:28:02 AM

A growing number of state budgets are in danger of collapsing under multibillion-dollar deficits—and are about to be burdened with billions more in costs. By LANHEE CHEN From the Heritage Foundation Abstract: A growing number of state budg… more

2014 Question Looms: Could Medicaid Recipients Buy Insurance On Exchanges?
POSTED: 12/6/2010 9:24:18 AM

By Marilyn Werber Serafini Nov 15, 2010   As budget-weary state officials contemplate dropping out of the state-federal Medicaid program, a potentially game-changing question has arisen in Washington: Would poor people who lose Medicaid be eligibl… more

Senators anticipate grilling Donald Berwick
POSTED: 12/6/2010 9:22:35 AM

By: Sarah KliffNovember 16, 2010 04:36 AM EST When Medicare head Donald Berwick makes his first Capitol Hill appearance this week, testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, he may feel akin to a rookie matador entering his first bullfigh… more