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Rep. Tim Bishop & A Vision of Socialized Medicine for Long Island April 9, 2012 Long Island Rep.Tim Bishop is suddenly concerned about waste and fraud in Medicare, so much so, that he recently held a series of Medicare meetings for seniors in several Long Island locations to discuss the elimination of waste and fraud. Some of the talk centered around unnecessary testing. It’s important to mention that Bishop voted for Obamacare which includes IPAB (Independent Patient Advisory Board) and which cut half a billion from Medicare. Both of those issues will likely mean rationing of health servic...

Study highlights promising opportunities that may reduce wasteful health care spending Spending on low-value health care among fee-for-service Medicare recipients dropped only marginally from 2014 to 2018, despite both a national campaign to better educate clinicians and increasing use of payment revisions that discourage wasteful care, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Three items accounted for two-thirds of the low-value care. Among these, prescribing opioids for acute back pain increased despite a growing national awareness of the harms caused by the drugs and the role of such pre...

The study suggests continued payment reforms and increasing computer-based decision-support tools.

 E-Mail Spending on low-value health care among fee-for-service Medicare recipients dropped only marginally from 2014 to 2018, despite both a national campaign to better educate clinicians and increasing use of payment revisions that discourage wasteful care, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Three items accounted for two-thirds of the low-value care. Among these, prescribing opioids for acute back pain increased despite a growing national awareness of the harms caused by the drugs and the role of such prescribing in fueling the nation's opioid crisis. The study found that the propo...