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A Few Wrinkles in a New Medical Specialty
Staff Writers
For thousands of years, magicians, alchemists, even a few fringe medical practitioners have fueled an unbounded optimism that we can blunt the ravages of time, stay younger for longer, maybe even defeat death itself.
Their pitches have usually hinged on some drug, food or device — everything from electricity to yogurt to surgically installing the gonads of animals into our own bodies — that will slow or reverse the aging process.
And, every decade or so, “anti-aging” promoters grasp onto news coming out of research labs and trumpet those developments as the answer we have all been awaiting.
Conclusion
And so, mainstream docs are joining the concierge anti-aging bandwagon in droves. But, with MD endorsements, is the field really a medical specialty at all, and is it more credible or just more risky? Please decide, opine and comment?
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Longevity quest moves slowly from lab to life
Don’t bank on anti-aging pills anytime soon — unless you’re a worm.
A related article to digest.
PS: Jim sent in this interesting link, but readers are asked to remain on-point regarding health economics and finance.
Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23359040
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Did you know that UnitedHealthcare is dropping some physicians with retainer practices from its network? Apparently, the annual fee they charge to patients pays for services included under UHC’s standard physician contract.
The fee covers customized care such as a comprehensive physical, 24-hour access, house calls, and extended appointments – services that physicians in retainer practices say traditional practices typically would not provide. UHC, on the other hand, opined that many retainer practice services already are covered causing its members to pay more than the physician’s contracted reimbursement rate.
The insurer has recently dropped six doctors associated with Boca Raton, Florida-based MDVIP, a national network of about 220 physicians in retainer practices, according to the American Medical News.
Any follow-up thoughts on this ongoing saga; and will there be more dis-enrollments?
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