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Health News From KHN- Republicans Pressing Link Between Obamacare And IRS Scandal May 19, 2013
- Feds Make It Easier For States To Enroll Poor Under Health Law May 18, 2013
- The IRS' Role In The Health Law Comes Under Scrutiny May 17, 2013
- IRS Controversy Fuels Republican Health Law Opposition May 17, 2013
- Republicans Ask GAO To Probe Sebelius' Fundraising May 17, 2013
- CBO: Cadillac Tax's Bark May Be Worse Than Its Bite May 17, 2013
- Updated Diagnostic Guidebook For Mental Disorders To Be Unveiled This Weekend May 17, 2013
- Patient And Physician Prescribing Information A Powerful Aide In Drug Marketing May 17, 2013
- Viewpoints: Health Law's Effect On Patient Safety; Angelina Jolie's Surgery Is The Ultimate 'Choice' May 17, 2013
- Some Hospitals Under The Microscope For Steep Pricing May 17, 2013
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Category Archives: Innovation
Using Strong Carrots and Sticks To Drive Health Care That Works
Brian Klepper Posted 5/09/13 on Medscape Connect’s Care & Cost Blog On a recent call with a large manufacturer, my company’s team expected to describe how we develop primary care medical homes that become platforms for managing comprehensive health care clinical and financial … Continue reading
How Physician Practices Can Prepare for a Health Care Marketplace
Brian Klepper Posted 4/21/13 on Medscape Connect’s Care and Cost Blog What is the path forward for physicians who want to remain in private practice, outside the constraints of health system employment? How will the environment change and what new demands … Continue reading
Seriously Testing The ACO Waters
Brian Klepper Published April 2013 in Accountable Care News If necessity is the mother of invention, then tentativeness and ambiguity are the parents of procrastination. In health care, fee-for-service remains the dominant paradigm, so the ACO movement, lacking almost any … Continue reading
When Employers Get Serious About Managing Health Care Risk
Brian Klepper Posted 4/07/13 on Medscape Connect’s Care & Cost Blog Last week I visited with Gary Rost, an unassumingly knowledgeable man and the Executive Director of the Savannah Business Group (SBG), arguably one of the most effective health care coalitions … Continue reading
When Employers Collaborate To Manage Health Care Costs
Brian Klepper Published 12/09/12 in the Eau Claire, WI Leader-Telegram Note from Brian: This piece appeared last weekend in the Eau Claire, WI newspaper, and was written with the encouragement of employers in that community who, rightly, believe they’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Benefits, Health Care Cost, Innovation, Medical Management
Tagged Brian Klepper, Eau Claire, Health Care Cost
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Demanding More From Medical Homes
Brian Klepper Published 9/4/12 in Medical Home News Never confuse motion with action. Benjamin Franklin A reporter called the other day to tell me that several local health systems now had medical homes. “I don’t think so,” I said. She was emphatic. … Continue reading
Will the Bubble Burst?
Brian Klepper Posted 8/19/12 on Medscape Connect’s Care and Cost Blog My recent 3-hour outpatient prostate biopsy generated nearly $25,000 in charges. My health plan will probably settle for four to five thousand dollars – this is the real market value – … Continue reading
Patent Pools Pushed To Make Drugs Affordable in Developing World
Merrill Goozner Published 5/9/12 in The Fiscal Times Amid a growing crisis in financing treatments for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in the developing world, an arm of the World Health Organization will meet in Geneva later this month to consider … Continue reading
Whatever It Is, It’s Not Insurance
Tom Emerick Posted 5/9/12 on Cracking Health Costs Discussions about covering “pre-existing” health conditions occur frequently among health policy people. One frequent thread is that health insurers should not be allowed to deny coverage to people with pre-existing health condition. … Continue reading
Looking Beyond the Money: Crucial Steps to Getting Vaccines to Children
Lois Privor-Dumm Posted 5/8/12 on Disruptive Women in Health Care Without money, many nations can’t afford to tackle health care issues and introduce the life-saving vaccines that are critical to child survival in the developing world. But even after a … Continue reading
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Affordability, Not Cost Growth, Is The Real Policy Challenge
Jeff Goldsmith Posted 5/7/12 on The Health Affairs Blog A recent spate of commentaries on the continuing health spending moderation raise an important policy question: If the cost curve is well and truly bent, why are we investing so much … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Benefits, Consumerism, Health Care Cost, Imaging, Innovation, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics, Supply Chain
Tagged Affordability, Cost Growth, Jeff Goldsmith, Medicare
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You Can Unleash This Horsepower!
Paul Levy Posted 5/6/12 on Not Running a Hospital Among the great hospital leaders in America, Jeffrey Thompson, CEO of the Gundersen Lutheran Health System in Wisconsin, stands out for going beyond achieving marvelous results in patient quality and safety. Jeff’s commitment … Continue reading
Nothing About Me Without Me: Participatory Medicine, Meaningful Use and the American Hospital Association
David Harlow Posted 5/6/12 on Health Blawg Meaningful Use Stage 2 regulations were released in March by CMS and ONC. Over the past month or so, I’ve been working with other members of the Society for Participatory Medicine (thank you, … Continue reading
The Great Experiment
Paul Levy If you read only one book about state and federal health care policy, it should be The Great Experiment: The States, the Feds and Your Healthcare. Published by the Boston-based Pioneer Institute, it is the most articulate and rigorous … Continue reading
