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- New Mexico Information Exchange Shows Potential of Obama HIT Campaign
- The New Mexico Health Exchange Collaborative is using the full range of federal incentives to spur health IT development in New Mexico. by Ken Terry
- Blog posts 2009-11-07
- The Rationing Debate Starts To Heat Up
- Up to now, the debate over health care has focused mostly on how to cover the insured and how to control costs by paying providers less or reimbursing them on a different basis, such as pay for value. Much less attention has been paid to the need to ration careâ€"and...
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- OIG Slams Doctors for Using Unqualified Personnel
- Just when you thought you’d heard everything about the poor quality of care in our absurdly overpriced health system, something else comes along. Today, it arrived in the form of a report from the HHS Office of The Inspector General OIG. This report observes that unqualified non-physicians perform many clinical...
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Health Plans Need Government Programs
- Even as private insurance companies and their advocates in Congress and the media assail proposals to expand government-sponsored insurance, health plans are relying increasingly on government programs to boost their profits. One illustration of that are the recent results of Humana. Despite the recession, Humana’s second-quarter net...
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Physicians Know We Need Reform
- America’s physicians favor healthcare reform much more strongly than the general public does. In the wake of the AMA’s pledge of support for Congressional reform proposals, a coalition of seven other physician organizations sent a letter backing reform to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid last week. The medical societies, which...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- What Can US Learn From European Health IT Experience?
- Mainly because of the HITECH Act, part of the economic stimulus legislation passed earlier this year, the U.S. is now finally heading down the road toward widespread health IT adoption and a national health information network. But the discussion about this strategy often gets bogged down in such details as...
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Personal Health Records: Information Wants To Be Free
- Talk to Colin Evans, the CEO of Dossia, a personal health records company founded by Wal Mart and several other large corporations, and you get the impression that employers have a different view of this technology than insurance companies and healthcare providers do. The big employers involved in Dossiaâ€"which also...
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- Hospital EHRs Don't Make Paper Go Away
- Estimated cost savings to hospitals from the use of electronic health records are quite large: For example, a RAND study published in 2005 calculated that the inpatient savings from efficiency alone could total $57 billion annually within 15 years, assuming a 90 percent adoption rate. But those savings included only...
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Gainsharing is Becoming More Respectable
- Last month, I wrote about the latest opinion on gainsharingâ€"the sharing of operational savings by hospitals with physicians--from HHS’ Office of the Inspector General OIG. Although OIG had declared gainsharing illegal in July 1999, it told the hospital that had requested the advisory opinion that it could proceed with its...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- How Payment Bundling Might Work
- As talk of CMS moving toward payment bundling continues, some observers think it’s going to be very difficult for physicians and hospitals to become partners, because of physicians’ distrust of hospitals. But it's going to be nearly as hard to get physicians to collaborate with each other to reduce hospitalizations...
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Healthcare Roundup: Device Makers Eye Reform, Hospital Pay Innovation, Mayo Leader Attacks Public Plan, and More
- Device Makers’ Turn? â€" There’s talk that the Obama Administration may ask the medical device industry to pledge between $15 billion and $25 billion in savings over the next 10 years to help pay for healthcare reform. The Administration has already gotten agreements from hospitals and pharmaceutical companies, fueling speculation...
- Blog posts 2009-07-24
- California Report Raises Issues About Insurance Exchanges
- While the debate over the public plan option continues, little attention has been paid to the health insurance exchanges that are part of the leading proposals now before Congress. Judging by the conclusions of a recent report from the California Healthcare Foundation, that might be a serious error of omission....
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Health Information Exchanges Are Coming of Age
- The number of health information exchanges HIEs in the U.S. is soaring. While some recently formed exchange initiatives are looking to capture federal funds, the big increase in the number of operational HIEs appears to be unrelated to the $300 million that the economic stimulus legislation authorized for HIEs, since...
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- Healthcare Roundup: Individual Insurance in Spotlight, Drive-Through ED Visits, Investors Save Chicago-Area Hospital, and More
- Individual Mandate Challenged â€"Democratic Senators and liberal advocacy groups are questioning whether people of modest means will be able to afford health coverage if reform legislation includes an individual mandate along the lines being discussed in the Senate. Under the Senate Finance Committee's emerging bill, only people with incomes up...
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Will August Be The Cruelest Month For Reform?
- Well, this is shaping up to be an eventful August, despite Congress being in recess and half of the country being on vacation: Congressmen are getting shouted down by health reform opponents at town hall meetings. New details of the Senate Finance Committee deliberations are leaking out. And there's a...
- Blog posts 2009-08-09
- CBO Brings Obama Back To Earth on Preventive Care
- It’s an article of faith in the Obama Administration that better preventive care will reduce health costs. But Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas W. Elmendorf brought everyone back to earth when he pointed out, in a recent letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, that many preventive services cost...
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- No Rationing, Say Experts, But Public Doesn't Hear
- Even as the Republican National Committee trotted out a “seniors’ healthcare bill of rights†that opposes any reductions in Medicare spending or end-of-life care, several experts polled by the New York Times said they see nothing in the current reform bills that would lead to rationing of care. Meanwhile, a...
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
- Politics vs. Reality in Healthcare Reform
- Because of their unwillingness to control costs by restructuring the health care delivery system, the Democratic reformers are focusing on insurance reform and, particularly, the public option. As I said in a recent post, I still favor their brand of reform over no reform, because it would expand coverage and...
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- It's Time to Take a Closer Look at Insurance Exchanges
- Aside from the public option, the Democrats' effort to control insurance costs for individuals and small businesses focuses on insurance exchanges that would offer them a wide range of health plans possibly including a public plan and would pool participants to get group insurance rates. These exchanges, featured in the...
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
- As Health Costs Rise, Loss of Coverage Accelerates
- Amid all the misleading talk about “death panels,†the “public option,†and the supposed “government takeover†of health care, it’s easy to miss how the lack of healthcare reform is affecting Americans. But Families USA, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, is doing its best to keep our eyes on the...
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
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