Mary Caffrey

CMS has touted an upgraded reporting system to spot overpayments, but only 18 states have implemented it so far.

The trials now recruiting involve larger groups of patients for longer periods of time, as well as less restrictive settings.

Buy in from physicians and lack of enthusiasm from payers are seen as barriers to moving quickly into value-based models.

Reports explain that plans for Medicaid block grants or per capita caps overlook who really uses Medicaid. It's mostly children.

Significant reductions in A1C were found at both doses, and bigger declines were seen among patients with the worst glycemic control. The cardiovascular outcomes trial for the SGLT2 inhibitor took a different turn after a rival drug showed a CV benefit.

A study last year found that more than half of all California adults have diabetes or prediabetes.

The change is part of a far-reaching public health law passed a year ago. The French have curbed candy machines and even french fries.

Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee suspended rules to clear Cabinet nominees Price and Mnuchin after Democrats boycotted the vote the previous day.

According to pool reports, Trump proposed a series of carrots and sticks to woo drug manufacturing back to the United States and force other countries to pay more for therapies developed here. Trump called the US subsidization of drug development "global freeloading."

Busy lifestyles are eroding the lines of traditional meal times, and all-day eating is bad for cardiovascular health, the statement says.

Democrats had asked for a delay in the vote due to concerns about Price's ethics. In boycotting the Senate Finance meeting, however, they alienated Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who has supported keeping the filibuster to protect minority party rights. Democrats accused Price and Treasury nominee Steve Mnuchin of lying to committee members at earlier appearances.

The study found a strong link between measures of "weight bias internalization" and metabolic syndrome in a group of obese, mostly female patients.

The American College of Cardiology is set to hold its annual meeting in the nation's capital March 17-20, 2017.

The complaint comes on the heels of requests from Congress and the American Diabetes Association for federal agencies to look into why insulin prices are so high.

Lawmakers and health experts pointed out that canceling the ad campaign would cause the exchanges to miss a late surge of enrollment from young, healthy adults and damage the risk pools.

Interviews with 13 insurers showed that uncertainty over the future of the individual insurance market would do the most harm, even if the Affordable Care Act repeal is delayed.

More Americans trust the healthcare industry with their data than trust the government. But with a sharp rise in healthcare data breaches in 2016, there are steps that providers and the public should take to be safe.

The researchers used 2 well-known national data sets to track a cohort of patients and found that death rates from diabetes are closer to 12%, not the 3% to 4% recorded on death certificates.

Davita, the largest dialysis provider in the country, said the matter is not resolved and urged the Trump administration to take action.

In a commentary, Leavitt argues that the fee-for-service system that built up around Medicare was centered on providers, not patients.

Too often, experts say, fear of hypoglycemia causes those with T1D to forgo exercise, despite the benefits.

While the Congressional Research Service calls for delaying new bundled payment rules, a webinar to explain them is still on CMS' website.

The study found that exam questions dealt more with complications of obesity, rather than basic diagnosis and treatment.

The study found giving patients a doctor who speaks their language caused Latino patients to ask more questions and report better communication with the physician.

The Obama administration set in motion a process that called for Medicare to pay for the Diabetes Prevention Program starting January 1, 2018.

"Voluntary" is the key word in today's wellness programs, after EEOC rules were tested in court.

After great effort to resolve apparent conflicts between the ACA and older statutes, including the Americans with Disabilities Act, a repeal of the healthcare law may send regulators back to the drawing board.

A Big Data approach reveals the link between well-known insecticides and melatonin, a chemical that affects sleep patterns.

Observers have called the mini-pump, which continuously delivers exenatide, a "game changer" because it has the potential to overcome medication adherence in the patients who are most resistant to treatment.

Shantanu Agrawal, MD, MPhil, pursued the use of analytics to prevent and identify fraud in public healthcare programs. He takes the helm of a 16-year-old group that has worked to bring consensus among stakeholders on what in healthcare should be measured.