The importance of genes

…may be smaller than previously thought for many chronic conditions.  A paper by Thompson (2014) uses data from 125,000 parent-child pairs to determine that: children with a parent who has a specific chronic health condition are at least 100% more likely to have the same condition themselves. To assess the role of genetic mechanisms in generating…

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Some people have March Madness. NCAA and a suitcase full of cash (not what you think) UW vs. UW-M. Other people are mad about the U.S. healthcare system. What is a “health insurance ghetto”? Is there a subsidy gap? The absurdity of US healthcare prices. How to define a “cut to Medicare”? And ending on a positive…

Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities: Patient Population and Readmissions

The Affordable Care Act has required that CMS begin to address excess readmissions in short term acute care hospitals paid under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) through the Hospital Readmissions Reduction program.  This program requires CMS to reduce payments to IPPS hospitals with excessive readmissions for a set of three conditions—acute myocardial infarction (AMI),…