Archive for April 28th, 2009

Medicare is considering throwing more bureaucracy our way.
As MedPage Today reports, because Medicare was “concerned about a rising number of hospice patients who survive longer than six months,” they are now requiring physicians to write a narrative to “describe the clinical evidence supporting a life expectancy of six months or less.”
Even worse, this comes on [...]

Here’s your chance to ask me questions about the past week’s events, such as the swine flu outbreak, my USA Today op-ed on cancer screening, the Craigslist Killer, or anything else that crosses your mind.
Just click the window below on Sunday, April 26th at 10:30pm Eastern. I’m looking forward to answering your questions.


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