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A few months back this story caught my eye: Insurers, hospitals clash over help paying ACA plan premiums . It describes an issue where insurers believe that hospitals are steering patients who are eligible…
Continue Reading →Dave chase joins co-hosts Don Lee and Shahid Shah to discuss The Big Heist film project. It's healthcare's An Inconvenient Truth + The Big Short/The Daily Show. A satirical, follow-the-money film on the…
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Mylan CEO Heather Bresch recently testified to congress about the EpiPen price controversy. There's an important sub-text in Bresch's testimony that goes way beyond the resulting headlines and sound-bites that…
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is moving forward with plans to launch a new 5-star rating system on its Medicare Hospital Compare web site. The new rating system gives a single…
Continue Reading →There's a lot of pressure being applied to the healthcare industry today. There are penalties for readmissions within 30-days of discharge, reduced (or non) reimbursement for harm due to clinical error (i.e. …
Continue Reading →Two John Halamka posts caught my attention this week: Making a Difference and A Time of Uncertainty . Both posts ponder where the next round of innovations will come from. Given the ever-changing regulatory…
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There are two ways to change your course when things aren’t going the way you want them to: Add stuff or remove stuff. As the U.S. National Health Expenditure approaches $3.5 Trillion and quality continues…
Continue Reading →According to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), America may be short up to 90,000 physicians by 2025 . A lack of Primary Care Physicians could account for as much as 1/3 of that. Some of…
Continue Reading →A doctor-friend of mine describes healthcare as an industry run by fear. Fear of an audit. Fear of a lawsuit. Fear of an adverse event. This manifests itself in an over-abundance of caution that leads us as an…
Continue Reading →Check out this exchange from last week’s chat: When #healthcare became a business, we lost our moral compass. We lost touch with the #patient . #hcbiz #HIMSS16 https://t.co/fbCDBpThzK — Bill…
Continue Reading →Years ago I worked on one of those not so good software development projects. It was a 1-year job that turned into a 2-year job. The client kept changing requirements (or we kept capturing them wrong,…
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