'RAP' Doctor Billing Controversy Continues
Physicians, hospitals and health insurers have defeated a proposed state law that would have forced insurers to cover out-of-network physicians' charges consumers incurred at in-network hospitals...Read More



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'RAP' Doctor Billing Controversy Continues
Physicians, hospitals and health insurers have defeated a proposed state law that would have forced insurers to cover out-of-network physicians' charges consumers incurred at in-network hospitals.

 
Legislative Affairs
Here are some of the healthcare measures going through the process during the 2009 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature.
 
Trauma and Emergency Care Focus

Emergency Rooms Get Ready for Hurricane Season
In the aftermath of Hurricanes Ike and Gustav one year ago, Louisiana's emergency rooms are gearing up for the 2009 storm season. Lessons learned from these storms, as well as 2005's Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, are leading to upgrades at hospital ERs from New Orleans' levees to Cameron's coast.

 
Health Information Technology Focus

Louisiana Works to Secure HIT Stimulus Money | electronic medical records, stimulus bill, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, health information technology, Health and Human Services
Louisiana Works to Secure HIT Stimulus Money
Louisiana health officials hope detailed plans, such as forming workgroups to address nearly every information technology issue, and ongoing implementation efforts will help the state secure a big chunk of federal stimulus dollars.

 
Does The HIT Stimulus Money Mean Smooth Sailing – Or Rough Seas? | Henry I. Balogun, Evan D. Steele, SRSsoft, ClinicTools, electronic medical records, electronic health records, Obama stimulus
Does The HIT Stimulus Money Mean Smooth Sailing – Or Rough Seas?
The cheerleading is fast and furious. The federal government and various medical organizations continue to hail the nearly $19 billion health information technology portion of President Obama's economic stimulus as the catalyst needed to break down barriers to widespread use of electronic health records. Yet there's an undercurrent of caution among providers, HIT entrepreneurs and the popular media.
 
Facility Focus

Physician Spotlight

Dr. Robert Anderson
Dr. Robert Anderson
ER Doc Faces Own Close Call
At age 45, Dr. Robert Anderson was living the good life. An avid golfer and non-smoker, the emergency medicine physician aced his 2006 physical, scoring low on cholesterol and hypertension tests and running the stress test treadmill "into the ground." But, his family history of heart trouble – his grandfather died at 43 after a series of heart attacks, followed by his father at the same age – prodded him to try out a then-experimental test, a CT coronary angiogram. While his fellow ER physicians at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital joked and high-fived after their scans, they fell silent when Anderson got his result – a major blockage in the left anterior descending artery (LAD).

 
Guest Writers


TV Ads Trigger Mindless Eating
Title: TV Ads Trigger Mindless Eating
Category: Health News
Created: 7/2/2009 7:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 7/2/2009 7:00:01 AM Posted Thursday, July 2, 2009 2:00 am CDT

Your Surroundings Mirror Your Beliefs
Title: Your Surroundings Mirror Your Beliefs
Category: Health News
Created: 7/2/2009 7:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 7/2/2009 Posted Thursday, July 2, 2009 2:00 am CDT

Health Highlights: July 1, 2009
Title: Health Highlights: July 1, 2009
Category: Health News
Created: 7/2/2009 7:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 7/2/2009 Posted Thursday, July 2, 2009 2:00 am CDT

Test Before Corneal Transplant May Improve Outcome
Title: Test Before Corneal Transplant May Improve Outcome
Category: Health News
Created: 7/2/2009 7:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 7/2/2009 Posted Thursday, July 2, 2009 2:00 am CDT

Possible Gene Regions for Schizophrenia Located
Title: Possible Gene Regions for Schizophrenia Located
Category: Health News
Created: 7/2/2009 7:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 7/2/2009 Posted Thursday, July 2, 2009 2:00 am CDT

Master Stem Cell for Human Heart Identified
Title: Master Stem Cell for Human Heart Identified
Category: Health News
Created: 7/2/2009 7:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 7/2/2009 Posted Thursday, July 2, 2009 2:00 am CDT


Obama: State must use head on health - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com

Obama: State must use head on health
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he intends to use "rational arguments" to douse "panic-peddling" in Louisiana ...

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Posted Thursday, July 2, 2009 12:48 am CDT

How to logically find doctors, medical schools, & associations ... - Examiner.com

How to logically find doctors, medical schools, & associations ...
Examiner.com
Ms. Cunningham has been the only fulltime metabolic nutritionist in Louisiana since she came to the Hayward Genetics Center in 1997. ...

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Posted Thursday, July 2, 2009 2:10 pm CDT

Exxon, Valero Face New Curbs on Cancer-Causing Gases - Bloomberg

Exxon, Valero Face New Curbs on Cancer-Causing Gases
Bloomberg
Thirteen of the 20 largest refineries are in Texas and Louisiana, according to the US Energy Department. Standards were last set in 1995. ...

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Posted Thursday, July 2, 2009 1:40 am CDT

 

 
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