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Spiegelman’s lab had just received payment for the 2009 year when the Madoff scheme was exposed and thus was able to maintain research this year using Picower funds...
...service and replacing it with an imaginative mix of systems that cost less, keep patients healthier and make doctors happier. "We need a transition to rewarding the actual value of care," says Dr. Elliott Fisher, director of population health and policy at the Dartmouth Institute. "For now, our payment system is getting in the way." (See the Cleveland Clinic's smarter approach to health care...
...scheduled to have an operation, here's something to add to your list of questions for the surgeon: Will you need an assistant surgeon? If the answer is yes, ask who will it be and who will pay him. Make a call to your insurer to ask about payment for that assistant to be there. And wear sneakers. You might get quite a runaround...
...operation (in contrast, at most teaching hospitals, surgeons are either on a fixed salary or part of a group that pools and divides fees) - and he must arrange for another surgeon's help. This used to be easy, in 1985, when the standard assistant surgeon's payment of 20% of the primary surgeon's fee was a great incentive. Since then, the surgeon's expenses have more than doubled, while fees have shrunk to a quarter or less of what they were. The assistant's share has dropped to 16%, and, more frustratingly, even after spending their time helping they...
...expect me to do this for free." - Allegedly telling an undercover FBI agent who he believed to be an Israeli intelligence officer that he expected payment for his services (Conversation dated Sept. 4, 2009, according to the affidavit...