Health May 06 New Plan Aims to Shift How Hospitals Are Paid for Medicare Patients The federal government's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is finalizing a new reimbursement plan that will determine how hospitals get paid to take care of Medicare patients. The proposed rule calls for something called "value based purchasing," which…
Health May 03 Accountable Care Organizations in Health Reform Decoded Anybody who's got more than one medical condition knows the drill. You go to the cardiologist with a heart problem. You go to the orthopedic surgeon if your back hurts. You find an oncologist if you need chemotherapy. They all…
World Apr 06 Q&A: IFRC on Evacuee Conditions, Nuclear Crisis Concerns Tsunami survivors at an evacuation centre in Yamada, Iwate prefecture. Photo by Owaki Mutsuhiko / Japanese Red Cross Society The situation in Japan's evacuation centers is "dire" for the more than 170,000 people still displaced from their homes by the…
Health Sep 30 Blueberries Among Top Tips to Avoid Alzheimer’s, Journalist Says When health journalist Jean Carper discovered that she carried the ApoE4 gene that triples her risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease, she became interested in finding out more about the latest research on Alzheimer’s prevention. More research and…
World Sep 02 5 Years After Katrina, Louisiana Teenagers Remember the Storm In the days following the flooding after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, approximately 1.5 million people throughout the Gulf Coast were displaced from their homes, including 163,000 children. Some of those were young people who became separated from their siblings…
Science Aug 30 In Louisiana, Wetlands Erosion is a Slow-Moving Crisis A worker lays boom beside a fragile Louisiana wetland area early in the Gulf oil disaster on April 29. Photo by Erica Berenstein/AFP/Getty Images City fathers love to talk about the numbers: 78 percent of the population of New Orleans…
Nation Aug 25 The Ninth Ward, 5 Years After Hurricane Katrina Betty Ann Bowser looks at what has changed in the Ninth Ward in New Orleans -- and what hasn't -- since Hurricane Katrina devastated the area five years ago.
Health Jul 12 New PTSD Treatment Rules for Vets Come Too Late for Some When the Department of Veterans Affairs announced its changes for how military vets can quality for PTSD treatment Monday, it made us think back to a very powerful story we did in 2008 on the impact of these…
Health Jul 09 Oil Spill Takes Emotional Toll on Gulf Residents Citing the "unprecedented" nature of the BP oil spill disaster, federal and state medical officials expressed concern Friday about what they see as mounting mental health issues that people in the Gulf states are facing. Public health…
Health Dec 18 Betty Ann Bowser: Deadline Nears for Christmas Health Care Vote NewsHour health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser returns to the Rundown for an update on the status of the Senate health care reform bill, including the timeline senate Majority Leader Harry Reid needs to stick to if he’s going to…