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12 Oct 2010, 6:23 am
  In announcing the latest SMP grants, CMS Administrator Donald Berwick stated:  “We are concerned about Medicare fraud and activity by criminals seeking to defraud seniors, and we want to ramp up our local community resources to educate seniors and people with Medicare about how they can help us stop it. [read post]
19 Sep 2010, 2:26 pm
Donald Berwick had previous spent thirty years studying patient safety and working on ways to improve the quality of care given across the country. [read post]
19 Sep 2010, 8:42 am by Richard Keyt
We would have thought a Harvard law professor would object to the extra-legality of this arrangement, but then this is also the crew that gave us ObamaCare via budget reconciliation and put Donald Berwick in charge of Medicare without a Senate debate. . . . [read post]
14 Sep 2010, 7:56 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, J.D., Ph.D.
Donald Berwick, the new CMS head, told health insurance executives in Washington yesterday that he does not advocate rationing or major "top down'' government solutions to transform the health care system. [read post]
6 Sep 2010, 5:05 pm
Medicare Chief Donald Berwick, a fan of Britain's failing National Health Service, has been given $10 billion to find new ways to save dollars spent under the Medicare system. [read post]
17 Aug 2010, 11:44 am
But when the FDA rescinds approval for that drug, it means that it is no longer available, at any price.Of course, given the predilections of our new CMS head honcho, Donald Berwick, this is of a piece with the idea that rationing care is the way to go:"The FDA is not supposed to consider costs in its decisions, but if the agency rescinds approval, insurers are likely to stop paying for treatment. [read post]
26 Jul 2010, 3:47 am
  In other news, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued final rules for achieving “meaningful use” of electronic health records.LAWMAKERS URGE CMS TO HALT HOSPITAL CUTS:In an effort to convince CMS to reconsider its proposed Medicare inpatient hospital payment reductions due to documentation and coding practice changes, 242 House Members sent a letter to the agency’s newly-installed Administrator, Donald Berwick, on July 12. [read post]
15 Jul 2010, 11:49 am by constitutional lawblogger
Donald Berwick as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in the Department of Health... [read post]
8 Jul 2010, 9:27 am
Donald Berwick as the new Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). [read post]
7 Jul 2010, 9:59 am
Donald Berwick is "an outspoken proponent of the British health care system".The MVNHS (Most Vaunted National Health Service) has been the subject of [read post]
7 Jul 2010, 9:58 am
Donald Berwick, head of CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services). [read post]
7 Jul 2010, 8:26 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, J.D., Ph.D.
Today, President Obama appointed Donald Berwick the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. [read post]
1 Jun 2010, 5:53 am by Glenn Reynolds
But Obama’s pick to run Medicaid and Medicare — Donald Berwick — is a pediatrician and Harvard University professor with a self-professed ‘love’ of the British system. . . . [read post]