http://www.medicadepot.com/en-gbWashington -- President Obama on Nov. 23 nominated Marilyn B. Tavenner to be the next administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Donald M. Berwick, MD, the current CMS chief, will serve his last day on Dec. 2, according to a letter he sent to agency staff. He has been administ...http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=482http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=4822011-11-23Chicago -- Nashville, Tenn., psychiatrist Andrew Michel, MD, often feels frustrated in his practice. He says his specialty's diagnostic system is not well-validated, that psychotropic medications are frequently ineffective, and that managed care means there is never enough time to plumb the depths o...http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=481http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=4812011-11-22A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new rule requiring graphic warning labels on cigarette packages. The decision was a victory for tobacco companies who say the warnings are unfair and would cost millions of dollars to produce. The Food and Drug Administration in June said the nine text an...http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=480http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=4802011-11-21Kansas is turning to managed care organizations to provide Medicaid enrollees more integrated, higher-quality care and to limit Medicaid spending growth. The state on Nov. 9 released a request for proposals for KanCare, both a consolidation of existing agencies that serve the state's 378,000 Medi...http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=479http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=4792011-11-17The patient depicted in the video is 50 pounds overweight, stressed and daunted by the task of trying to slim down. It's a common scenario for physicians facing the medical consequences of patients' poor lifestyle choices. Research shows that doctors can influence patients to eat better and be mo...http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=478http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=4782011-11-16The idea to replace the index cards that many physicians carry in their lab coats to keep track of hospitalized patients with a smartphone application was a winning one, the American Medical Association decided. The AMA selected the idea for the "Rounder" app as one of two winners to its 2011 AMA...http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=477http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=4772011-11-14Eighty-five percent of physicians say it is important to know what patients expect from a hospital stay to ensure high-quality care, yet only one in 10 doctors asks about patient expectations. Nurses are likelier to quiz patients about their expectations, with 20% doing so, according to a survey ...http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=476http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=4762011-11-11Washington -- New White House initiatives are prodding medical schools to train military veterans for health care jobs and encouraging health centers to hire veterans. Universities and colleges that train veterans to be physician assistants will be given higher scores when applying for federal ph...http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=475http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=4752011-11-10Indiana physicians continue to battle a legal challenge over the state's medical liability damages cap. Indiana Court of Appeals judges on Oct. 25 allowed a lawsuit against the cap to move forward, denying a request by Community Hospitals of Indiana to throw out the case based on procedural groun...http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=474http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=4742011-11-09Considering patients' age, gender and where they live could help physicians identify people who have an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A study in the Oct. 21 issue of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report f...http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=473http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=4732011-11-08Health system reforms in Massachusetts may have reduced its uninsured population to the smallest of any state, but the effort has not controlled growth in health care costs -- at least not yet. Five years after Massachusetts launched its groundbreaking health reform initiative, health care costs ...http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=472http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=4722011-11-07Clear, specific requirements for what needs to be disclosed when physicians have relationships with medical device and pharmaceutical manufactures will be essential to evaluating conflicts of interest inherent to such relationships, a study concludes. Researchers examined data from a Dept. of Jus...http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=471http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=4712011-11-04Washington -- Patient fees under the Medicare program for 2012 will be restrained by lower utilization rates of physician and other health services, according to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services officials. The lower-than-expected utilization means Medicare outpatient premiums will rise mo...http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=470http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=4702011-11-03Medical liability is a key reason physicians admit more emergency department patients and discharge them less, say two studies in the October Annals of Emergency Medicine. In one study, a survey of 849 emergency physicians and patients in two inner-city emergency departments found that 11% of phy...http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=469http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=4692011-11-02New guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics expands the age at which children can be diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The recommendations also encourage physicians to partner with parents, teachers and mental health specialists when creating a treatment plan for thes...http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=468http://www.medicadepot.com/news-podr.html?id=4682011-11-01