Current Nashville Medical News

Healthcare Reform Boosts Primary Care

2010-06-02T17:04:37Z

Reimbursement Incentives Offered to Ease the Strain
Well, it’s done, and depending on your perspective, the historic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that sets about reforming America’s health system could be a boon or it could be a bust. For most stakeholders, reality is somewhere in the middle.

Letter from the Editor

2010-06-02T17:04:37Z

We are so excited about our plans for July. Our regularly formatted paper will be on hiatus for one month while we bring you InCharge Healthcare, a comprehensive contact list of key decision-makers covering the broad spectrum of Nashville’s healthcare industry.

NHCC Looks at Healthcare Investment Trends

2010-06-02T17:04:37Z

Confidence and Strength Returning
Nashville’s historic floodwaters didn’t dampen the sunny forecasts from healthcare industry experts at the Nashville Health Care Council’s yearly financial prognostication luncheon that packed the Loews Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel last month.

Vital Signs

2010-06-02T17:04:37Z

In picking healthcare reform’s so-called winners and losers, the hospital sector is typically at the top of the winners list. The logic goes that, by providing insurance coverage to 32 million more Americans, hospitals will have more paying patients and fewer whose healthcare bills end up as bad debt.

After the Disaster

2010-06-02T17:04:37Z

Public Health Concerns after the Flood
Although the waters have receded, it will take a long time for Tennessee to recover from the damage caused as raging rivers raced through neighborhoods. As those impacted by the flood try to create a new sense of normal, healthcare professionals should be aware of both the physical and behavioral health hazards that still lay ahead.

Gold Skin Care a Site for Testing of New JUVÉDERM Formulation

2010-06-02T17:04:37Z

FDA Approves New Compound
Nashville-based Gold Skin Care and its Tennessee Clinical Research Center have been involved in a clinical trial for a new formulation that earlier this year received FDA approval. The product is a version of the dermal filler JUVÉDERM®, and patients are heartily endorsing the innovation, said board-certified dermatologist Michael Gold, MD.