"Health & Medical News"

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Treatment Research Institute
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Philadelphia, PA 19106
Tel: (215) 399-0980
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Paying substance abuse treatment providers for results, not services, may lead to improved quality of care, according to the first published study of a novel performance-based contracting system implemented by the State of Delaware in 2002.

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From:
Treatment Research Institute
600 Public Ledger Building, 150 S. Independence Mall West
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Tel: (215) 399-0980
http://www.tresearch.org

Paying substance abuse treatment providers for results, not services, may lead to improved quality of care, according to the first published study of a novel performance-based contracting system implemented by the State of Delaware in 2002.

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Washington — Becoming a doctor isn’t cheap. The average debt for medical school graduates is approximately $140,000, according to the American Medical Association. But the burden could get a little lighter for some medical students under a bill passed last month by the House.

A provision inserted into legislation reauthorizing the federal government’s student loan programs would allow medical specialists with five or more years of graduate medical education to qualify for up to $2,000 in loan forgiveness annually for serving in areas of need. The maximum amount would be $10,000 for five years of service.

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The Vermont House Agricultural Committee has voted unanimously*to approve legislation that would allow farmers in the state to grow industrial hemp, the? Rutland Herald reported Jan. 31.

Under federal law, growing hemp is banned along with cultivation of marijuana, its close cousin. But supporters of the legislation in Vermont said that passage could set the stage for establishing a new industry if a change in policy occurs.

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Washington — The race for Florida’s 15th Congressional District is adding new meaning to the term “physician choice.”

Rep. Dave Weldon, MD (R, Fla.), an internist running for his seventh term in the district, located southeast of Orlando, is being challenged by political newcomer and Democrat Stephen Blythe, DO. A family physician, Dr. Blythe admits he faces an uphill battle in the conservative-leaning area.

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Washington — A U.S. House lawmaker plans to introduce legislation to create a registry in which pharmaceutical manufacturers would have to report any gifts that are given to physicians.

The measure by Rep. Peter DeFazio (D, Ore.) would be similar to legislation that already was offered in the Senate. But the House bill might apply to companies with less than $100 million in revenues, the threshold set by the Senate bill, said Ed Hill, a legislative assistant for DeFazio. The House and Senate bills would require manufacturers to list both gifts of $25 or more and the physicians who received them.

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The Bush administration’s proposed billion-dollar antidrug partnership with Mexico was met with harsh criticism in the House Foreign Relations Committee this week, the Los Angeles Times reported Nov. 15.

Panel member examining the $1.4-billion plan for the first time — U.S. and Mexican officials had largely hashed out the details of the so-called Merida Initiative behind closed doors — said that more money should be spend to “curb the appetite” for drugs and worried that Mexican corruption would bleed money away from the program.

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