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		<title>Medicare Changes for 2010 Will Kill Geriatric Psychiatry and Old Folks With Mental Health Problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. G. Moak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the Senate failed to take action to avert a 21.5% reduction in Medicare fees to doctors scheduled to go into effect January 1, 2010.  Such a dramatic reduction in Medicare reimbursement will be devastating to the healthcare of older Americans.  Many physicians will stop seeing Medicare patients, in favor of younger patients whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Automatic Refills</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consider the following case vignette, a composite of the recent experience of two patients in my practice.  A 79 year-old woman with severe depression and anxiety was hospitalized for pneumonia.   The hospital doctors made a change in her psychiatric medication.  Drug A was replaced with drug B.  After she returned home, she had the prescription [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DON’T CALL MY PATIENTS CUTE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was sitting in the nursing station at the rehabilitation hospital recently when a new admission arrived.  She was a very old looking woman who came for rehabilitation after a surgical repair of a broken hip.  She was sitting up on the gurney, amiably chattering at the ambulance drivers who had transporter her.  She was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Need a Single-Payer Healthcare System:  A Geriatric Psychiatrist&#8217;s View From The Trenches - Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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Opponents to a single-payer healthcare system often invoke the specter of government intruding into the medical examination room and directly meddling in the doctor-patient relationship.  Such objections usually include dire warnings about the government restricting the choice of personal physician and dictating which treatments doctors can provide.   From my vantage point as a practicing geriatric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare Mental Health Parity:  Still a Long Way to Go</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent passage of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 received significant media attention and jubilant acclaim from mental health advocates.  This law represents significant progress toward ending discrimination in commercial health insurance coverage for psychiatric treatment.  It requires health insurance plans to cover psychiatric treatment [...]]]></description>
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