Category Archives: CMS

Harvard professors feel the impact in their pocketbooks of the ACA law that they helped pass

Update January 5, 2014- This is now being reported in the New York Times, two-months after our reporting.

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The finances of TAVI: do prices have to come down?

November 8, 2013- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD William O’Neill, MD of Henry Ford discusses the finances of transapical aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and why the $30,000 pricetag for the devices should be closer to $5,000. He also discusses … Continue reading

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The clinical hurdles to prescribing CGM

October 31, 2014– Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD The portion of total Type 1 diabetes patients who use continuous glucose monitors (CGM)

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A Bridge Too Far: Patient classifications for LVAD reimbursement

September 16, 2013- By Ashish Shah, MD, Cardiac transplant surgeon, The Johns Hopkins Medical Center Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) arose from the ashes of the total artificial heart era.

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Senate Finance Committee hearing on CMMI

August 15, 2013

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What happens next with the ACA law?

May 20, 2013- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD

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Reasons for permanent slowdowns in healthcare spending growth

May 17, 2013- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Since 2010,

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RomneyCare ballooned healthcare costs in Massachusetts

June 24, 2012 CBS News interviewed the Governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, about the cost increases

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Pork Is Clogging CMMI’s Arteries

June 20, 2012- in the WSJ– by Steven E. Greer, MD Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Director Richard Gilfillan’s reply (Letters, June 14) to my op-ed of June 5 says that my accusations “are baseless.” This was backed up … Continue reading

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Inside ObamaCare’s Grant-Making: CMMI

June 4, 2012- In the Wall Street Journal Op-Ed section– by Steven E. Greer Early this year, I was briefly involved with one of the Affordable Care Act’s bureaucracies called

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Reasons to Abandon Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Targets

Interviewed by Steven Greer, MD Harlan Krumholz, MD, cardiologist from Yale, discusses his open letter in the journal Circulation

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Benjamin Sommers, MD PhD: the challenges of expanding Medicaid

November 23, 2010- Interviewed by Steven Greer, MD Under the ACA health insurance reform laws, approximately 16 million new Medicaid patients

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Will more Medicaid patients stress the system financially?

November 23, 2010- Interviewed by Steven Greer MD Under the ACA health insurance reform laws, approximately 16 million new Medicaid patients

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Will healthcare spending really continue at its current pace?

December 9, 2009- Interviewed by Steven Greer, MD The consensus among government budget forecasters such as the CBO is that the current growth

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Michael Burgess, MD: House plans for healthcare reform

May 19, 2009- Representative Michael Burgess, MD (R-TX) discusses the early stages of the House healthcare reform bill.  

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