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| Editorial Archives
March/April 2008 • Volume 3, Number 2
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| Financing Medicare: An Issue Brief (PDF, 10 pages) |
| Persistently high rates of growth in national health expenditures
combined with demographic trends pose a serious challenge
to the financing of Medicare in the 21st century. The
Kaiser Family Foundation discusses the program’s long-term
financing situation and challenges from several perspectives. |
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| Medicare Diabetic Measures That Pay (PDF, 3 pages) |
| Get a quick lesson in how to submit information for diabetic
patients under Medicare’s Physician Quality Reporting Initiative. |
| Richard
G. Stefanacci, DO, MGH, MBA, AGSF, CMD • p.
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| Current Options for Vaccine Administration under Medicare Part D (PDF, 3 pages) |
| Medicare has moved coverage of many vaccines (both drug
and administration fees) to Part D. New rules govern billing
and reimbursement. This second part in a 3-part series explains
current options. |
| Richard
G. Stefanacci, DO, MGH, MBA, AGSF, CMD • p. 32 |
| Prevalence and Management of Chronic Kidney Disease (PDF, 5 pages) |
| How can physicians better identify and manage patients with
chronic kidney disease? Three physicians from the Trans Atlantic
Renal Council, a nonprofit, federally designated End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Network, discuss the importance
of early identification of patients with CKD. |
| Andrew Miller, MD, MPH • p.
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