The OIG released an advisory opinion today finding that a proposed block leasing arrangement between two physician group practices — one a practice providing cancer treatment services, including IMRT, the other a urology group — whereby the urology group would bring the IMRT services in-house through a series of contracts, would be barred as an […]
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Beach Blanket Health Wonk Review
Julie Ferguson's beach edition of HWR is up at Workers' Comp Insider. My fellow health wonks may be blogging from the beach (I hope they are!) but I've either been inside to get out of the rain, or out biking (and I haven't yet mastered the art of blogging while biking — nor am I […]
The "S" word: Single-payor, Obama and the Wall Street Journal
Even when denying that he plans to institute a single-payor model, Obama gets raked over the coals by most of the readers who commented on today's WSJ Health Blog post regarding his health plan. Obama says that if we were starting with a clean sheet of paper, a single-payor system would make sense. So far, […]
A Phelpsian Blawg Review
Dive into this week's Phelpsian edition of Blawg Review, up at David Donoghue's Chicago IP Litigation Blog. — David Harlow
Another wonderful ride for a good cause — 2008 Pan Mass Challenge wrap-up
About two weeks after the Pan Mass Challenge, I feel reintegrated into the rest of my life, and no longer part of a 10,000-person village on wheels. (The PMC is the annual two-day bicycle fundraiser for Boston's Dana Farber Cancer Institute's Jimmy Fund.) Monday morning after the ride, I was sitting in front of my […]
Grand Rounds is up at Medical Humanities Blog
Check out this week's edition of Grand Rounds, hosted by Daniel Goldberg at his very sharp looking Medical Humanities Blog, hitting all the high points of this week's offerings in the medblogosphere, from Oprah to the Olympics. — David Harlow