Collin County Dialysis Center is a medicare approved dialysis facility center in Plano, Texas and it has 30 dialysis stations. It is located in Collin county at 3420 Ave K, Plano, TX, 75074. You can reach out to the office of Collin County Dialysis Center at (972) 423-1447. This dialysis clinic is managed and/or owned by Fresenius Medical Care. Collin County Dialysis Center has the following ownership type - Profit. It was first certified by medicare in October, 1994. The medicare id for this facility is 452686 and it accepts patients under medicare ESRD program.
Name | Collin County Dialysis Center |
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Location | 3420 Ave K, Plano, Texas |
No. of Dialysis Stations | 30 |
Medicare ID | 452686 |
Managed By | Fresenius Medical Care |
Ownership Type | Profit |
Late Shifts | Yes |
3420 Ave K, Plano, Texas, 75074 | |
(972) 423-1447 | |
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NPI Number | 1801908793 |
Organization Name | Collin County Dialysis Center |
Doing Business As | Bio-medical Applications Of Texas, Inc. |
Address | 3420 K Ave Ste 150 Plano, Texas, 75074 |
Phone Number | (972) 423-1447 |
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Officials from the major insurance companies were not following themes of gloom and doom and instead told the Energy and Commerce Committee that the overhaul has not triggered a government takeover of their industry, and that their stock prices are doing well.
Pharmacy-benefits management companies, including CVS Caremark and Medco, are worried that a U.S. Postal Service plan to end Saturday delivery could raise mail-order drug prices, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. "The pharmacy-benefits management companies, which shipped more than 150 million drug orders last year, joined retailer Crate and Barrel and publishers of small newspapers to challenge the Postal Service and its plan to cut service to save about $3 billion a year." The Post Office is trying to combat a projected $7 billion deficit this year (Keane, 6/21).
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Experience Measure | Provider | National Avg. |
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Patients who reported that nephrologists always communicated and cared for them. | 71% | 67% |
Patients who reported that nephrologists usually communicated and cared for them. | 10% | 15% |
Patients who reported that nephrologists sometimes or never communicated and cared for them. | 19% | 18% |
Patients who gave their nephrologists a rating of 9 or 10 on a scale of 0 (worst possible) to 10 (best possible). | 59% | 60% |
Patients who gave their nephrologists a rating of 7 or 8 on a scale of 0 (worst possible) to 10 (best possible). | 28% | 26% |
Patients who gave their nephrologists a rating of 6 or less than 6 on a scale of 0 (worst possible) to 10 (best possible). | 13% | 14% |
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Pharmacy-benefits management companies, including CVS Caremark and Medco, are worried that a U.S. Postal Service plan to end Saturday delivery could raise mail-order drug prices, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. "The pharmacy-benefits management companies, which shipped more than 150 million drug orders last year, joined retailer Crate and Barrel and publishers of small newspapers to challenge the Postal Service and its plan to cut service to save about $3 billion a year." The Post Office is trying to combat a projected $7 billion deficit this year (Keane, 6/21).
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An analysis of nearly 200,000 patients who received mammograms between 2006 and 2015 across three U.S. health systems underscores the importance of understanding the heterogeneity of breast cancer risk factors for women of differing races, ages, and disease subtypes.
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Experience Measure | Provider | National Avg. |
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Patients who reported that dialysis center staff always communicated well, kept patients comfortable and pain-free as possible. | 60% | 62% |
Patients who reported that dialysis center staff usually communicated, kept patients comfortable and pain-free as possible. | 18% | 20% |
Patients who reported that dialysis center staff sometimes or never communicated, kept patients comfortable and pain-free. | 22% | 18% |
Patients who gave their dialysis facility staff a rating of 9 or 10 on a scale of 0 (worst possible) to 10 (best possible). | 56% | 62% |
Patients who gave their dialysis facility staff a rating of 7 or 8 on a scale of 0 (worst possible) to 10 (best possible). | 24% | 26% |
Patients who gave their dialysis facility staff a rating of 6 or less than 6 on a scale of 0 (worst possible) to 10 (best possible). | 20% | 12% |
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Officials from the major insurance companies were not following themes of gloom and doom and instead told the Energy and Commerce Committee that the overhaul has not triggered a government takeover of their industry, and that their stock prices are doing well.
Pharmacy-benefits management companies, including CVS Caremark and Medco, are worried that a U.S. Postal Service plan to end Saturday delivery could raise mail-order drug prices, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. "The pharmacy-benefits management companies, which shipped more than 150 million drug orders last year, joined retailer Crate and Barrel and publishers of small newspapers to challenge the Postal Service and its plan to cut service to save about $3 billion a year." The Post Office is trying to combat a projected $7 billion deficit this year (Keane, 6/21).
The Texas Alliance for Home Care Services and the American Association for Homecare praised a bipartisan bill in Congress, H.R. 3790, to eliminate the deeply flawed "competitive" bidding program for durable medical equipment and services in Medicare.
An analysis of nearly 200,000 patients who received mammograms between 2006 and 2015 across three U.S. health systems underscores the importance of understanding the heterogeneity of breast cancer risk factors for women of differing races, ages, and disease subtypes.
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Experience Measure | Provider | National Avg. |
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Patients who reported that 'YES', their nephrologists and dialysis center staff provided them the information they needed to take care of them. | 78% | 80% |
Patients who reported that 'NO', their nephrologists and dialysis center staff does not provided them the information they needed to take care of them. | 22% | 20% |
Patients who gave their dialysis center a rating of 9 or 10 on a scale of 0 (worst possible) to 10 (best possible). | 65% | 68% |
Patients who gave their dialysis center a rating of 7 or 8 on a scale of 0 (worst possible) to 10 (best possible). | 13% | 20% |
Patients who gave their dialysis center a rating of 6 or less than 6 on a scale of 0 (worst possible) to 10 (best possible). | 22% | 12% |
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Pharmacy-benefits management companies, including CVS Caremark and Medco, are worried that a U.S. Postal Service plan to end Saturday delivery could raise mail-order drug prices, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. "The pharmacy-benefits management companies, which shipped more than 150 million drug orders last year, joined retailer Crate and Barrel and publishers of small newspapers to challenge the Postal Service and its plan to cut service to save about $3 billion a year." The Post Office is trying to combat a projected $7 billion deficit this year (Keane, 6/21).
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An analysis of nearly 200,000 patients who received mammograms between 2006 and 2015 across three U.S. health systems underscores the importance of understanding the heterogeneity of breast cancer risk factors for women of differing races, ages, and disease subtypes.
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Dialysis patients with Hemoglobin data | 87 |
Medicare patients who had average hemoglobin (hgb) less than 10 g/dL | 7 |
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Officials from the major insurance companies were not following themes of gloom and doom and instead told the Energy and Commerce Committee that the overhaul has not triggered a government takeover of their industry, and that their stock prices are doing well.
Pharmacy-benefits management companies, including CVS Caremark and Medco, are worried that a U.S. Postal Service plan to end Saturday delivery could raise mail-order drug prices, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. "The pharmacy-benefits management companies, which shipped more than 150 million drug orders last year, joined retailer Crate and Barrel and publishers of small newspapers to challenge the Postal Service and its plan to cut service to save about $3 billion a year." The Post Office is trying to combat a projected $7 billion deficit this year (Keane, 6/21).
The Texas Alliance for Home Care Services and the American Association for Homecare praised a bipartisan bill in Congress, H.R. 3790, to eliminate the deeply flawed "competitive" bidding program for durable medical equipment and services in Medicare.
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Adult patinets who undergo hemodialysis, their Kt/V should be atleast 1.2 and for peritoneal dialysis the Kt/V should be atleast 1.7, that means they are receiving right amount of dialysis. Pediatric patients who undergo hemodialysis, their Kt/V should be atleast 1.2 and for peritoneal dialysis the Kt/V should be 1.8.
Higher percentages should be better.
Adult patients getting regular hemodialysis at the center | 152 |
Adult patient months included in Kt/V greater than or equal to 1.2 | 1311 |
Percentage of adult patients getting regular hemodialysis at the center | 88 |
Percentage of pediatric patients getting regular hemodialysis at the center |
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Officials from the major insurance companies were not following themes of gloom and doom and instead told the Energy and Commerce Committee that the overhaul has not triggered a government takeover of their industry, and that their stock prices are doing well.
Pharmacy-benefits management companies, including CVS Caremark and Medco, are worried that a U.S. Postal Service plan to end Saturday delivery could raise mail-order drug prices, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. "The pharmacy-benefits management companies, which shipped more than 150 million drug orders last year, joined retailer Crate and Barrel and publishers of small newspapers to challenge the Postal Service and its plan to cut service to save about $3 billion a year." The Post Office is trying to combat a projected $7 billion deficit this year (Keane, 6/21).
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Adult patients getting regular peritoneal dialysis at the center | 18 |
Adult patient months included in Kt/V greater than or equal to 1.7 | 114 |
Percentage of adult patients getting regular peritoneal dialysis at the center | 76 |
Percentage of pediatric patients getting regular peritoneal dialysis at the center |
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Officials from the major insurance companies were not following themes of gloom and doom and instead told the Energy and Commerce Committee that the overhaul has not triggered a government takeover of their industry, and that their stock prices are doing well.
Pharmacy-benefits management companies, including CVS Caremark and Medco, are worried that a U.S. Postal Service plan to end Saturday delivery could raise mail-order drug prices, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. "The pharmacy-benefits management companies, which shipped more than 150 million drug orders last year, joined retailer Crate and Barrel and publishers of small newspapers to challenge the Postal Service and its plan to cut service to save about $3 billion a year." The Post Office is trying to combat a projected $7 billion deficit this year (Keane, 6/21).
The Texas Alliance for Home Care Services and the American Association for Homecare praised a bipartisan bill in Congress, H.R. 3790, to eliminate the deeply flawed "competitive" bidding program for durable medical equipment and services in Medicare.
An analysis of nearly 200,000 patients who received mammograms between 2006 and 2015 across three U.S. health systems underscores the importance of understanding the heterogeneity of breast cancer risk factors for women of differing races, ages, and disease subtypes.
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An important goal of dialysis is to maintain normal levels of various minerals in the body, such as calcium. This shows the percentage of patients treated at Collin County Dialysis Center with elevated calcium levels.
Patients with hypercalcemia | 205 |
Hypercalcemia patient months | 1806 |
Hypercalcemia patients with serumcalcium greater than 10.2 mg | 1 |
Patients with Serumphosphor | 208 |
Patients with Serumphosphor less than 3.5 mg/dL | 8 |
Patients with Serumphosphor from 3.5 to 4.5 mg/dL | 25 |
Patients with Serumphosphor from 4.6 to 5.5 mg/dL | 24 |
Patients with Serumphosphor from 5.6 to 7 mg/dL | 26 |
Patients with Serumphosphor greater than 7 mg/dL | 17 |
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Officials from the major insurance companies were not following themes of gloom and doom and instead told the Energy and Commerce Committee that the overhaul has not triggered a government takeover of their industry, and that their stock prices are doing well.
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An analysis of nearly 200,000 patients who received mammograms between 2006 and 2015 across three U.S. health systems underscores the importance of understanding the heterogeneity of breast cancer risk factors for women of differing races, ages, and disease subtypes.
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The arteriovenous (AV) fistulae is considered long term vascular access for hemodialysis because it allows good blood flow, lasts a long time, and is less likely to get infected or cause blood clots than other types of access. Patients who don't have time to get a permanent vascular access before they start hemodialysis treatments may need to use a venous catheter as a temporary access.
Patients included in arterial venous fistula and catheter summaries | 158 |
Patient months included in arterial venous fistula and catheter summaries | 1144 |
Percentage of patients getting regular hemodialysis at the center that used an arteriovenous (AV) fistulae for their treatment | 59 |
Percentage of patients receiving treatment through Vascular Catheter for 90 days/longer | 8 |
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Officials from the major insurance companies were not following themes of gloom and doom and instead told the Energy and Commerce Committee that the overhaul has not triggered a government takeover of their industry, and that their stock prices are doing well.
Pharmacy-benefits management companies, including CVS Caremark and Medco, are worried that a U.S. Postal Service plan to end Saturday delivery could raise mail-order drug prices, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. "The pharmacy-benefits management companies, which shipped more than 150 million drug orders last year, joined retailer Crate and Barrel and publishers of small newspapers to challenge the Postal Service and its plan to cut service to save about $3 billion a year." The Post Office is trying to combat a projected $7 billion deficit this year (Keane, 6/21).
The Texas Alliance for Home Care Services and the American Association for Homecare praised a bipartisan bill in Congress, H.R. 3790, to eliminate the deeply flawed "competitive" bidding program for durable medical equipment and services in Medicare.
An analysis of nearly 200,000 patients who received mammograms between 2006 and 2015 across three U.S. health systems underscores the importance of understanding the heterogeneity of breast cancer risk factors for women of differing races, ages, and disease subtypes.
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The rate of hospitalization show you whether patients who were being treated regularly at a certain dialysis center were admitted to the hospital more often (worse than expected), less often (better than expected), or about the same (as expected), compared to similar patients treated at other centers.
Standard Hospitalization Summary Ratio(SHR) Year | January, 2016 - December, 2016 |
Patients in facility's Hospitalization Summary | 154 |
Hospitalization Rate in facility | 150.8 (As Expected) |
Hospitalization Rate: Upper Confidence Limit | 236.2 |
Hospitalization Rate: Lower Confidence Limit | 103 |
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Officials from the major insurance companies were not following themes of gloom and doom and instead told the Energy and Commerce Committee that the overhaul has not triggered a government takeover of their industry, and that their stock prices are doing well.
Pharmacy-benefits management companies, including CVS Caremark and Medco, are worried that a U.S. Postal Service plan to end Saturday delivery could raise mail-order drug prices, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. "The pharmacy-benefits management companies, which shipped more than 150 million drug orders last year, joined retailer Crate and Barrel and publishers of small newspapers to challenge the Postal Service and its plan to cut service to save about $3 billion a year." The Post Office is trying to combat a projected $7 billion deficit this year (Keane, 6/21).
The Texas Alliance for Home Care Services and the American Association for Homecare praised a bipartisan bill in Congress, H.R. 3790, to eliminate the deeply flawed "competitive" bidding program for durable medical equipment and services in Medicare.
An analysis of nearly 200,000 patients who received mammograms between 2006 and 2015 across three U.S. health systems underscores the importance of understanding the heterogeneity of breast cancer risk factors for women of differing races, ages, and disease subtypes.
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The rate of readmission show you whether patients who were being treated regularly at Collin County Dialysis Center were readmitted more often (worse than expected), less often (better than expected), or about the same (as expected), compared to similar patients treated at other dialysis centers.
Standard Readmission Summary Ratio(SRR) Year | January, 2016 - December, 2016 |
Readmission Rate in facility | 29.6 (As Expected) |
Readmission Rate: Upper Confidence Limit | 41.1 |
Readmission Rate: Lower Confidence Limit | 19.9 |
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Officials from the major insurance companies were not following themes of gloom and doom and instead told the Energy and Commerce Committee that the overhaul has not triggered a government takeover of their industry, and that their stock prices are doing well.
Pharmacy-benefits management companies, including CVS Caremark and Medco, are worried that a U.S. Postal Service plan to end Saturday delivery could raise mail-order drug prices, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. "The pharmacy-benefits management companies, which shipped more than 150 million drug orders last year, joined retailer Crate and Barrel and publishers of small newspapers to challenge the Postal Service and its plan to cut service to save about $3 billion a year." The Post Office is trying to combat a projected $7 billion deficit this year (Keane, 6/21).
The Texas Alliance for Home Care Services and the American Association for Homecare praised a bipartisan bill in Congress, H.R. 3790, to eliminate the deeply flawed "competitive" bidding program for durable medical equipment and services in Medicare.
An analysis of nearly 200,000 patients who received mammograms between 2006 and 2015 across three U.S. health systems underscores the importance of understanding the heterogeneity of breast cancer risk factors for women of differing races, ages, and disease subtypes.
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Hemodialysis treatment requires direct access to the bloodstream, which can be an opportunity for germs to enter the body and cause infection. This information shows how often patients at Collin County Dialysis Center get infections in their blood each year compared to the number of infections expected for the center based on the national average.
Standard Infection Summary Ratio(SIR) Year | January, 2016 - December, 2016 |
Infection Rate in facility | .37 (Better than Expected) |
SIR: Upper Confidence Limit | 1 |
SIR: Lower Confidence Limit | .09 |
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Officials from the major insurance companies were not following themes of gloom and doom and instead told the Energy and Commerce Committee that the overhaul has not triggered a government takeover of their industry, and that their stock prices are doing well.
Pharmacy-benefits management companies, including CVS Caremark and Medco, are worried that a U.S. Postal Service plan to end Saturday delivery could raise mail-order drug prices, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. "The pharmacy-benefits management companies, which shipped more than 150 million drug orders last year, joined retailer Crate and Barrel and publishers of small newspapers to challenge the Postal Service and its plan to cut service to save about $3 billion a year." The Post Office is trying to combat a projected $7 billion deficit this year (Keane, 6/21).
The Texas Alliance for Home Care Services and the American Association for Homecare praised a bipartisan bill in Congress, H.R. 3790, to eliminate the deeply flawed "competitive" bidding program for durable medical equipment and services in Medicare.
An analysis of nearly 200,000 patients who received mammograms between 2006 and 2015 across three U.S. health systems underscores the importance of understanding the heterogeneity of breast cancer risk factors for women of differing races, ages, and disease subtypes.
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Patients with anemia require blood transfusions if their anemia is not managed well by their dialysis center. This information shows whether Collin County Dialysis Center's rate of transfusions is better than expected, as expected, or worse than expected, compared to other centers that treat similar patients.
Standard Transfusion Summary Ratio (STrR) Year | January, 2016 - December, 2016 |
Patients in facility's Transfusion Summary | 136 |
Transfusion Rate in facility | 20.6 (As Expected) |
Transfusion Rate: Upper Confidence Limit | 48.6 |
Transfusion Rate: Lower Confidence Limit | 9.7 |
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Officials from the major insurance companies were not following themes of gloom and doom and instead told the Energy and Commerce Committee that the overhaul has not triggered a government takeover of their industry, and that their stock prices are doing well.
Pharmacy-benefits management companies, including CVS Caremark and Medco, are worried that a U.S. Postal Service plan to end Saturday delivery could raise mail-order drug prices, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. "The pharmacy-benefits management companies, which shipped more than 150 million drug orders last year, joined retailer Crate and Barrel and publishers of small newspapers to challenge the Postal Service and its plan to cut service to save about $3 billion a year." The Post Office is trying to combat a projected $7 billion deficit this year (Keane, 6/21).
The Texas Alliance for Home Care Services and the American Association for Homecare praised a bipartisan bill in Congress, H.R. 3790, to eliminate the deeply flawed "competitive" bidding program for durable medical equipment and services in Medicare.
An analysis of nearly 200,000 patients who received mammograms between 2006 and 2015 across three U.S. health systems underscores the importance of understanding the heterogeneity of breast cancer risk factors for women of differing races, ages, and disease subtypes.
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The rate of mortality show you whether patients who were being treated regularly at Collin County Dialysis Center lived longer than expected (better than expected), don’t live as long as expected (worse than expected), or lived as long as expected (as expected), compared to similar patients treated at other facilities.
Standard Survival Summary Ratio(SIR) Year | January, 2013 - December, 2016 |
Patients in facility's Survival Summary | 846 |
Mortality Rate in facility | 15.2 (As Expected) |
Mortality Rate: Upper Confidence Limit | 19.1 |
Mortality Rate: Lower Confidence Limit | 11.9 |
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Officials from the major insurance companies were not following themes of gloom and doom and instead told the Energy and Commerce Committee that the overhaul has not triggered a government takeover of their industry, and that their stock prices are doing well.
Pharmacy-benefits management companies, including CVS Caremark and Medco, are worried that a U.S. Postal Service plan to end Saturday delivery could raise mail-order drug prices, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. "The pharmacy-benefits management companies, which shipped more than 150 million drug orders last year, joined retailer Crate and Barrel and publishers of small newspapers to challenge the Postal Service and its plan to cut service to save about $3 billion a year." The Post Office is trying to combat a projected $7 billion deficit this year (Keane, 6/21).
The Texas Alliance for Home Care Services and the American Association for Homecare praised a bipartisan bill in Congress, H.R. 3790, to eliminate the deeply flawed "competitive" bidding program for durable medical equipment and services in Medicare.
An analysis of nearly 200,000 patients who received mammograms between 2006 and 2015 across three U.S. health systems underscores the importance of understanding the heterogeneity of breast cancer risk factors for women of differing races, ages, and disease subtypes.
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Renal Center Of Plano, Llc Location: 4112 W Spring Creek Parkway, Plano, Texas, 75024 Phone: (972) 608-7831 |
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Officials from the major insurance companies were not following themes of gloom and doom and instead told the Energy and Commerce Committee that the overhaul has not triggered a government takeover of their industry, and that their stock prices are doing well.
Pharmacy-benefits management companies, including CVS Caremark and Medco, are worried that a U.S. Postal Service plan to end Saturday delivery could raise mail-order drug prices, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. "The pharmacy-benefits management companies, which shipped more than 150 million drug orders last year, joined retailer Crate and Barrel and publishers of small newspapers to challenge the Postal Service and its plan to cut service to save about $3 billion a year." The Post Office is trying to combat a projected $7 billion deficit this year (Keane, 6/21).
The Texas Alliance for Home Care Services and the American Association for Homecare praised a bipartisan bill in Congress, H.R. 3790, to eliminate the deeply flawed "competitive" bidding program for durable medical equipment and services in Medicare.
An analysis of nearly 200,000 patients who received mammograms between 2006 and 2015 across three U.S. health systems underscores the importance of understanding the heterogeneity of breast cancer risk factors for women of differing races, ages, and disease subtypes.
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