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ACO Revolution May Take Place…Someday
While many expect accountable care organizations (ACO) to speed up the consolidation of small physician practices, health industry members say years may pass before the vaguely defined groups become reality.
TED GRIGGS |
Louisiana DHH Launches Campaigns for Healthy Babies
Louisiana ranks second-highest in the nation for infant mortality. According to the 2009 Kids Count Data Book on Louisiana's Children, 47.5 percent of these deaths relate to conditions originating in the perinatal period. Of these, 39.7 percent result from preterm births and fetal malnutrition. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) accounts for 10.7 percent of the state's infant deaths.
LISA HANCHEY |
Maximizing Reimbursements
In an environment of rising costs and diminishing returns, it's easy to hone in on contracted rates as the sole source of financial woes. Certainly, negotiating favorable reimbursements with payers is key to a healthy bottom line, but it's really only half the story.
CINDY SANDERS |
Children Are Not Small Adults
Nanopediatrics Emerges to Ensure Nanotechnology Encompasses Kids
Imagine a pump the size of a molecule delivering medicine directly in the body where it's needed. Or a miniscule tool programmed to seek out and destroy the first cancer cells of a tumor. That's the promise of nanomedicine, medical applications in the much broader field of nanotechnology. Yet, as such customized medical innovations are being researched, Edward R.B. McCabe III, MD, has one reminder: Kids are different.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Health Insurers Tackle Deluge of Changes
Reform Regulations Are Kicking In Already
Healthcare reform requires changes of all stakeholders, but probably none more so than third-party payers, usually portrayed as wearing the black hat in this ongoing drama. In fact, President Obama hasn’t hesitated to cast insurers in the role of characters more worried about money than patient care.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Oil Disaster Smothers Legislative Session
The BP well disaster dominated the state Legislature's most recent session, derailing efforts to find long-term solutions to Louisiana's enormous budget shortfall and growing Medicaid population.
TED GRIGGS |
Dr. Stanley E. "Bubba" Peters, Jr.
Medicine: It's A Family Tradition
Like his father, ENT Dr. Stanley E. "Bubba" Peters, Jr. pursued the medical field. Now, Peters' own son, Geoffrey, plans to follow in his Dad's footsteps by becoming an otolaryngologist. Bubba's dream one day is to practice with Geoffrey in their native Baton Rouge. "I can't wait to practice with my son," he gushed. "I think it would be a whole lot of fun."
LISA HANCHEY |
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