November 2010

Healthcare Con Artists Keep Costs Up

Ron Shinkman, Fierce Health Finance
November 17, 2010
 
You see them on the sidewalks of cities like New Orleans and New York. They're cheerful but streetwise, urging you to bet on the "right card," or engage in a similar activity that is neither friendly nor a wager.
 
They're playing the "short con," engaging in deception to snatch a dead president from your pocket and cram it into theirs.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Business Forum: Give employers medical claims data

Insurers recently drew the ire of government officials by announcing that the new health care law would force them to raise premiums. Others have called for hospitals and doctors to be more transparent about their prices, in hopes that patients might be able to shop around and make more informed treatment decisions.
 

The Baltimore Business Journal: A Healthy Bottom Line

by Emily Mullin and Ben Fischer, Washington Business Journal
Thursday, November 4, 2010

 

The lingering effects of the recession coupled with soaring insurance premiums have hit businesses hard.

 

To make up for rising health care costs, many businesses have cut benefits or increased co-pays, but some experts say new technology could help companies trim health care costs without resorting to those measures.

 

New Report: Insurers, Brokers Prevent Companies from Cutting Health Costs

(Bethesda, M.D.) November, 1, 2010-- Insurers and benefits consultants are standing in the way of American employers' efforts to reduce their rapidly spiraling healthcare costs, according to a new report from the Healthcare Performance Management (HPM) Institute.
 

InformationWeek: Social Media Cuts Healthcare Costs

Social media initiatives that help physicians, patients, and the medical research community share patient information will drive down healthcare-related costs while improving the quality of care, a report concludes.
 

Workforce Benefits 2013 Online Conference: HPM Institute Executive Director Speaks about Big Data in Healthcare

Finding Meaning in Numbers: Using Big Data to Transform Your Health Care Benefits  Organizations are awash in data. Driven by consumer and regulatory trends and enabled by technology, the r...

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It’s a small world after all - staying connected on business travel in Australia

[HealthBlog]
Yesterday morning I arrived in Brisbane, Australia. After a 14 hour direct flight from LA, I was more than ready to get a little exercise before heading full speed into this year’s multi-city busine...
Monday, February 11, 2013 9:42 AM GMT

Commonwealth Fund report examines challenges facing doctors internationally

[Health Care Finance News]
Communication and teamwork across healthcare systems appears to be a nearly universal challenge, according to a survey of nearly 9,800 primary care physicians representing 11 nations. The Commonwealth...
Monday, February 11, 2013 9:41 AM GMT

Health cost transparency on the W-2: sticker shock at the point-of-paystub

[HealthPopuli]
If you receive health insurance benefits from your employer, you’ll see a new line item on your W-2, courtesy of the Internal Revenue Service: the cost of employer-sponsored group health plan co...
Monday, February 11, 2013 8:21 AM GMT

Readmission Prevention Effort Focuses on Colon Surgery Patients

[Health Leaders Media]
Characterizing current dischargeinstructions as lacking "a systematic implementation methodology," researchers have created guidelines suggesting which post-surgical events should prompt p...
Saturday, February 09, 2013 8:00 AM GMT

What if health care…?--Susannah Fox

[e-patients.net]
For over a year I’ve been the accidental manager of a community garden. All I did — I swear — is point out an open plot of land and people started pitching in, planting, asking frien...
Friday, February 08, 2013 12:16 PM GMT

How Companies Can Foster Healthy Employees

[The Wall Street Journal Health Blog]
Many employers offer wellness programs to contain their health-care costs—and perhaps also improve morale and productivity.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 12:00 AM GMT

Implementation of Affordable Care Act Provisions to Improve Nursing Home Transparency, Care Quality, and Abuse Prevention

[Kaiser Family Foundation]
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the first comprehensive legislation since 1987 to expand quality of care-related requirements for nursing homes that participate in Medicare and Medicaid and improve f...
Friday, August 31, 2012 8:32 AM GMT

CHVI: For Specialty Solutions in Cancer Care, Less Can Be More

[Center For Health Value Innovation]
CHVI and Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions produce webinar focused on pathways to improving patient Outcomes ESTERO, FLA. – August 31, 2012 –When cancer patients are given more of a voice in the...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:39 PM GMT

A Smarter Planet — The Social Traffic Conundrum: An IBM vPanel...

[Healthnex]
The Social Traffic Conundrum: An IBM vPanel Interactive Dialogue Date: Wednesday, September 22, 4pm ET Location: The IBM New Intelligence Video Studio, http://www.livestream.com/newintelligence Descri...
Wednesday, December 31, 1969 7:00 PM GMT

How to Win Friends and Influence Millennials: Health Exchanges Edition

[The Health Care Blog]
By MIKE MIESEN America is only a few months away from Exchange Day—October 1, 2013—when the state and federal health exchanges open up for business. And when they do… well, I’d surprised if a ...
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