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- Health Care Reform: Stop Focusing on the Cost
- Massachusetts? existing universal health care plan has become a prototype for current reform proposals now in Congress. But Jonathan Gruber, a key architect of the program, says to make federal reform work, Congress needs to give up trying to control costs for now. ...
- Articles 2009-08-06
- Cost Control Is Still Nowhere in Sight, Experts Say
- The Democratic proposals for controlling healthcare costs won't have much impact in the short term, experts say. Unless they can do something about spending, they will accomplish little. by Ken Terry
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Reviving Managed Care: Focused Medical Management (Finally) Pairs Quality Care With Measurable Cost Control
- This article describes about the year 2001 which was an ugly year for those trying to contain medical costs as a 12% inflation rate kept health plan executives up at night, swinging at demons. Some forecasters cannot see an end to the cost inflation. They point to a vicious whirlwind...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services: National Program Trends
- Long-Term Care LTC policymakers face mounting pressures to expand Medicaid home and community-based services while the cost of institutional provision continues to rise and consume the bulk of Medicaid LTC spending. This paper presents the latest program trends in the three Medicaid home and community-based services programs and reports a...
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Building on the Job-Based Health Care System: What Would It Take?
- The paper presents a blueprint for a reform, along with design choices and their implications, which would improve access, cost control, and quality. Requiring employers to provide coverage or at least to help workers obtain group insurance, combined with income-based premium subsidies, expanded public programs, and backup "insurance exchanges," would...
- White papers 2003-08-27
- Expanding Beyond Professional Service Revenue: Experiences, Regulatory Issues and Lessons Learned
- Many medical groups continue to enjoy high levels of profitability despite stagnant or declining reimbursement under Medicare Part B and many commercial payer arrangements. Previous studies of better performing groups have shown that cost control measures, by themselves, rarely result in increased long-term profitability. Better performing medical groups pay attention...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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- Health Wonk Review: Crunch Time For Health Reform
- As Congress faces America’s healthcare demons again, I have the honor of hosting this biweekly review of some of America’s best healthcare bloggers. They include Joe Paduda of Managed Care Matters, who helms a subsection of this Health Wonk Review devoted to initial reactions to Bob Laszewski’s unusual reform proposal....
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- Wanted: A Real Reform Plan That Will Control Costs
- As the healthcare reform discussions in Washington finally start to grapple with cost control, some providers are becoming alarmed. Specialist physicians are up in arms over a proposal by Sens. Baucus and Grassley to have Medicare pay primary-care physicians 5 percent more while reducing specialists’ incomes by a like amount....
- Blog posts 2009-04-30
- Healthcare Providers Expected to Rely on Outsourcing
- The healthcare sector is expected to be one of the greatest beneficiaries of productivity improvements generated through increasingly automated and integrated processes, creating a particularly strong market for companies offering business process outsourcing. Organizations now recognize the need for an IT Services firm to manage this process, realizing the immediate...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Total Quality Control Strategies
- This article is the "blue crayon" to help you identify hazardous situations where analytical quality is difficult to manage and to give you some ideas on what to do in those situations. It explains the need for TQC strategy and provides the guidelines for the same. Current QC practices tend...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Are Hospitals Grabbing a Bigger Share of the Healthcare Pie?
- The U.S. healthcare system is sometimes best thought of as a three-way tug-of-war between payers private insurers and the feds, providers hospitals and doctors and suppliers (drug and medical-device makers). No, patients don't really figure into this analogy -- at best, they're trussed up in the middle somewhere. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Nunn broils Blues for not attending to cost control. (Senator Sam Nunn, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Associations)
- Sen Sam Nunn at a recent Congressional hearing denounced Blue Cross and Blue Shield Assns for failing to implement and use effective cost controls. Nunn said that his analysis of nonprofit healthcare providers revealed that there were few incentives to coSen Sam Nunn at a recent Congressional hearing denounced Blue...
- Research articles 1994-08-15
- The Senate Bill: Medicare And Much Else
- Editor's Note: In the post below, Tim Jost looks at provisions of the Senate Democratic health reform bill dealing with Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP, and many other significant topics. In earlier posts, Jost took a first look at the Senate bill, provided a detailed look at several issues that arise under the bill's insurance reforms, and discussed...
- News items 2009-11-21
- Axway and Cyclone Commerce's Controlled Substance Ordering System Wins iBusiness Solution Award from HDMA; Cyclone CSOS™ Recognized by Healthcare Distribution Management Association for Creativity and Innovation
- SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. & PARIS -- Axway and Cyclone Commerce (PARIS:SOP), which are currently integrating operations following their January merger, today announced that it has been selected as the winning service provider of the Healthcare Distribution Management Association HDMA iBusiness Solution Award. The combined company's Cyclone CSOS Controlled Substance Ordering System...
- Research articles 2006-06-13
- Another bipartisan plan surfaces. (healthcare reform bill introduced into the House)
- Several insurance industry trade groups are supporting a healthcare reform bill introduced in the House by a bipartisan group of Representatives led by Mike Bilirakis and Roy Rowland. One provision in the bill requires employers to offer health plans, but not fund them, and another permits employers to self-insure if...
- Research articles 1994-08-22
- The Finance MBA: Life Beyond Wall Street
- Manhattan might be a ghost town, but regional banks and boutiques will still be hunting for talent. Top feeder schools: ...
- Articles 2009-02-09
- University Health System Streamlines Exchange Migration with DYS Analytics' Email CONTROL! For Exchange
- WALTHAM, Mass. -- E[acute accent]Saves over 130 hours of IT time on One Project Alone, Achieves ROI in Months, Readies Network for Growth as Mobile Email Devices and Email Use Expands E[acute accent]DYS Analytics, Inc., whose innovative products and services manage today's top messaging platforms, announced that the University...
- Research articles 2006-08-21
- Ecolab Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you. We will now begin the question and session. [Operator Instructions] The first question comes from the line of Laurence Alexander of Jefferies you may ask your question Laurence Alexander - Jefferies & Company I guess the first question is on...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-23
- Healthcare Reform Kicks Into High Gear
- Just one month ago, the conventional wisdom in Washington -- here personified by inside-the-Beltway health guru Bob Laszewski -- was that the economic crisis and a vast federal bailout package had effectively killed any chance for an overhaul of the nation's creaky healthcare system. Don't count on...
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Lawson Software delivers client/server cost management solutions to 8 major healthcare organizations; Lawson fiscal year-to-date revenue growth in healthcare exceeds 100 percent
- MINNEAPOLIS--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 5, 1996--Lawson Software, a leading provider of client/server cost management solutions for healthcare organizations, today announced that eight major healthcare providers have recently selected Lawson's integrated solutions to analyze and control their costs more effectively. Overall, the company's healthcare initiative, in which Lawson is tailoring its business...
- Research articles 1996-02-05
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