Cancer Screening & Detection

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March is National Colerectal Cancer Awareness Month. This release from CMS today reviews Medicare coverage, and offers several resources, including patient education materials that you can use in your practice.

Medicare beneficiaries' care is spread over so many physicians that determining which physician should qualify for additional payment is a moving target under current pay-for-performance (P4P) designs, according to a study by researchers...

In addition to my day job as the CRM Director for the American Cancer Society, High Plains Division, I'm also a volunteer with its national signature event, Relay For Life. I would like...

A study from the Mayo Clinic demonstrates an improved rate of routine mammograms when a web-based recall tracking system is used. Proactice recalls of patients for routine preventive services is good medicine, puts...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) today announced two new evidence-based checklists designed to help men and women understand which medical checkup tests they need to stay healthy at any age.

Can we actually learn something from a car dealer? OK, the repair shop, but still.....a car dealer?? An interesting article in Health Data Management recently talks about an interesting model being used by...

In conjunction with National Breast Cancer Month (NBCAM), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would like to invite you to join with us in helping to promote increased awareness of the...

A colleague showed me a letter his wife had received from her physician the other day. The woman had had a mammogram, followed by a biopsy, which was negative, fortunately. The doctor kept...

The rate of women getting mammograms has been dropping, according to a report in the Detroit Free Press . Nationally, 1.9% fewer women received mammograms in 2004 than in the preceeding year. Medicaid...

A study out today suggests that public education campaigns can work too well: women overestimate their risk of breast cancer and overestimate the ability of mammograms to detect tumors. It's a good thing...

Over at Brand Autopsy , John Moore writes about a recent Wall Street Journal article on the makeover Dunkin Donuts is implementing in its 5000 franchises. (Thanks for the link, Church of the...