Archive: 25/11/2015
Pay-for-performance fails to improve quality of health care payer programs
Double bonuses paid to some Medicare Advantage plans under a pay-for-performance program did not result in higher quality ratings, according to research conducted by the University of Michigan.
Nov 25, 2015
To beat hunger, shift from food quantity to diet quality
The biggest food challenge today is not hunger but nutritional deficiency. That's the conclusion of Cornell food security experts who spoke at the National Press Club Nov. 23.
Nov 25, 2015
How the explosion in prescription painkillers has created more heroin users
In the early years of my clinical practice as a psychologist treating heroin users, I commonly saw adolescents and young adults using heroin as their first drug. A typical client was a male in his mid-teens, perhaps a runaway ...
Nov 25, 2015