Massachusetts health care cost trends hearings yield data, stir heated debate

15 years ago

  The Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy and the Attorney General's Office are holding three days of…

David Harlow quoted on Electronic Health Records implementation and incentives in Mass. Medical Law Report

15 years ago

Just a few days before the comment period closed on the draft regulations defining meaningful use (see all meaningful use…

Patient safety not taught in medical school? Lucian Leape Institute releases Unmet Needs: Teaching Physicians to Provide Safe Patient Care

15 years ago

Ten years after the release of the IOM report To Err is Human, which documented the toll taken by medical…

HIMSS in Atlanta and online

15 years ago

The HIMSS annual convention going on this week in Atlanta is a 30,000-person blowout of epic proportions (and, yes, there…

David Harlow quoted in Part B Insider piece on RACs

15 years ago

The OIG recently reviewed RAC performance to date in identifying fraud (vs. overpayment) and found the RACs wanting.  To be…

Diagnostic Radiology Controls: David Harlow Interviews MITA Executive Director Dave Fischer

15 years ago

MITA Executive Director Dave Fischer spoke with HealthBlawg last week about industry efforts to control radiation dose in diagnostic radiology…

MPFS in Crisis: Holding of Claims for Services Paid Under the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

15 years ago

Days of Future Passed (or: deja vu all over again).  Late Friday, after business hours, CMS pushed the following announcement…

Social Media for Lawyers presentation at Law Practice Management program, Western New England College

15 years ago

I will be presenting a talk today at the Business of Lawyering program at Western New England College's Law and…