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Mindfulness meditation offers low-cost way to boost health

Mindfulness exercises assisted patients in better understanding their pain and to separate the actual pain from fear, uncertainty and old memories. It also helped participants make better lifestyle choices and assess appropriate activity levels, food intake and how much medication they actually needed. Read more

Accepting death as natural would alleviate fear, stress

Society continues to have difficulty accepting death as a natural part of life. We go on hoping it won’t happen to us, at least for now, and when death raises its head, we look the other way. The result is fear, confusion, denial, poor decision-making and an unskillful use of resources. Read more

Time will tell whether health insurer’s new model succeeds

Hawaii Medical Service Association is on the verge of making a historic change in how it reimburses primary care medical providers. Until now the largest private payer in the state has reimbursed physicians on a fee-for-service basis. Under its Payment Transformation Pilot, HMSA will instead pay selected providers a fixed dollar amount for each member in their practice each month. HMSA believes that this will benefit patients, providers and the insurer because it will improve clinical outcomes and contain costs. Will it work? That remains to be seen. Read more

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