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UnitedHealth To End Some Coverage For Remote Patient Monitoring DevicesContrary to the positive reimbursement trends coming out of CMS, UnitedHealth announced that from Jan. 1, only members with heart failure or pregnancy-related hypertensive disorders will be covered for the devices. Conditions lik stanley mug e diabetes and COPD will no longer qualify.Modern Healthcare:UnitedHealth s Remote Patient Monitoring Decision Shocks IndustryThe future of remote patient monitoring just got murky. Starting Jan. 1, UnitedH stanley termosy ealth, part of UnitedHealth Group, only will cover the use of remote patient monitoring devices for its commercial and Medicare members who have heart failure or hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. The insurer said RPM for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes and hypertension not related to pregnancy was not clinically proven and would not be covered.  Perna, 11/14 Mo stanley cup re health industry developments 鈥擬odern Healthcare:Aetna Tones Down Medicare Advantage  Downcoding  PolicyAetna is dialing back a policy to  downcode  some hospital inpatient claims after facing pushback. The CVS Health subsidiarys  level of severity inpatient payment policy  for its Medicare Advantage plans was due to take effect Saturday, but Aetna is pushing it back to Jan. 1 and reducing its scope, the insurer notified providers last Thursday.  Tepper, 11/14 Los Angeles Times:UC Nurses Cancel Strike Plans After Reaching Deal With UniversityA planned labor strike by University of Califor Misw A Disproportionate Number Of African-Americans Are Dying, But The U.S. Has Been Silent On Race Data
Thursday, Jun 11 2009The Latest Reports in Health PolicyThe November/December 2002 issue of Health Affairs includes a series of articles on the U.S. public health system.  Summaries of some of the articles appear below: Strengthening the Nation s Public Health Infrastructure: Historic Challenge, Unprecedented Opportunity :  The article, written by Edward Baker, assistant surgeon general and director of the Public Health Practice Program Office for the CDC, and Jeffrey Koplan, former director of the CDC, examines the progress made in public health over the last 10 years and looks at the  immediate challenges  and opportunities that have resulted from recent events  Baker/Koplan, Health Affairs, November/December 2002 . The Public Health Infrastructure: Rebuild Or R adidas samba og edesign  :  The article, written by Nicole Lurie, senior natural scientist at RAND, explores whether the United States should revamp or completely redesign its public health system; whether medic yeezy mexico ine and public health can work together; if relying on a market-driven  stanley us health system impedes progress; whether accountability can be  buil[t] in[to]  the public health sector; and how quality of care can be improved  Lurie, Health Affairs, November/December 2002 . The Unfulfilled Promise of Public Health:  D茅j脿 Vu All Over Again :  The article, written by Elizabeth Fee, chief of the History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine, and Theodore Brown, professor and chair of the Department of History at the Uni