by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: Innovation is Good Except…. …. when it is not politically correct. For a long time large employers have used self-funded insurance plans…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt While We Were Busy Discussing Other Things…. …. the first major rewrite of regulations for the Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect March 15th….

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: Another Major Event On the 23rd the Obama administration will publish the administrative regulations for Medicaid expansion. http://www.medicaid.gov/Federal-Policy-Guidance/Downloads/REG-03-16-12.pdf As reported by Modern…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: Major Event The Department of Health and Human Services has issued the final regulations for the operation of state health insurance exchanges….

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: Research on Defensive Medicine (Part 1) (Background – I have been an executive in two orthopaedic centers, and write and lecture for…

…in reimbursements would average about 30%. Clearly, we need a permanent fix. We need Medicare reform. Clearly, a fix or reform are not likely anytime soon. Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: Recommending Brad Delong When he is not snarking up a storm on his blog or educating Berkeley’s young skulls full of mush…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care: Supply Chain Meltdowns First: Counterfeit vials of the cancer drug Avastin have been found in three states. The vials, sold directly to physician…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: Evidence Based Medicine Evidence based medicine is one of the center pieces of PPACA (Obamacare) and is generally viewed as THE enlightened…

…filmed, so I expect that they’ll be up somewhere to watch soon, which will make my comments superfluous. Tom Walker of Ecological Headstand was also present, so I wouldn’t be…