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Health News From KHN- GAO: Smooth And Timely Launch Of Health Exchanges Unsure June 19, 2013
- 'Get Covered America' Campaign Launched By Nonproft Group June 19, 2013
- State Highlights: Ark. AG Asks State Supreme Court To Uphold J&J Fine; N.Y. Abortion Measure To Get Separate Vote June 19, 2013
- Report: Improper Prescription Drug Use Drives Up Cost Of Care June 19, 2013
- AMA: Obesity Is A Disease June 19, 2013
- CBO Finds Immigration Bill Would Save Gov't. Money June 19, 2013
- House Passes Ban On Abortion After 20 Weeks Of Pregnancy June 19, 2013
- Senate Finance Committee Examines Health Care Prices; Steven Brill Testifies June 19, 2013
- Viewpoints: Urgency Has Slipped Away For 'Grand Bargain'; The Need To Scrutinize Drug Competition; Restore Funding To 'Meals On Wheels' June 19, 2013
- Texas Senate Approves Abortion Restrictions, Prompting Access Fears June 19, 2013
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Category Archives: Quality
Physicians, Health Systems and the Drive For Market Dominance
Brian Klepper Posted 5/23/13 on Medscape Connect’s Care & Cost Blog Several physicians have reached out recently to discuss attractive employment offers from health systems. They are invariably conflicted. They understand the trade-offs, that they’ll give up the autonomy they’ve … Continue reading
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
Why EHRs Really Haven’t Made Us Healthier: A Response To Glen Tullman
Brian Klepper Recently-fired Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman waxed progressive in a self-promotional Forbes article last week, describing the ways past and forward for electronic health records (EHRs) and health information technology (HIT). He may have been trying to recover from a damning New York … Continue reading
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Tagged Allscripts, Brian Klepper, David Kibbe, Electronic Health Records, Glen Tullman, Health Information Technology, Mark Leavitt
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The RUC, Health Care Finance’s Star Chamber, Remains Untouchable
Brian Klepper Posted 2/1/13 on The Health Affairs Blog On January 7, a federal appeals court rejected six Georgia primary care physicians’ (PCPs) challenge to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 20-year, sole-source relationship with the secretive, specialist-dominated federal advisory … Continue reading
An Archipelago of Health Information Islands
Brian Klepper Posted 12/27/12 on Medscape Connect’s Care and Cost Blog My wife Elaine was hospitalized for 6 days recently with an array of ailments related to her advancing cancer, so diagnosing and addressing her problems required a multidisciplinary approach. In addition … Continue reading
Following the Money
Brian Klepper Posted 12/06/12 on Medscape Connect’s Care & Cost Blog On The Health Care Blog, veteran analyst Vince Kuraitis reviews a report from the consulting firm Oliver Wyman (OW), arguing that the trend toward reconfiguring health systems to deliver more accountable care is … Continue reading
Irresistible Forces
Brian Klepper Posted 10/28/12 on Medscape Connect’s Care & Cost Blog At our first meeting years ago, Tom Emerick, Walmart’s then VP of Global Benefits, told me, “No industry can grow indefinitely at a multiple of general inflation. It will … Continue reading
Getting Engaged
Elaine Waples We hear inspiring things about patient engagement. The very concept has a hearty, spirited, “do-right” sound to it. I spent many years in human resources. I remember the conversations we had around employee engagement as we searched for … Continue reading
The Wrong Battles
Brian Klepper Posted 9/20/12 on Medscape Connect’s Care and Cost Blog This week the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) issued a new report describing its vision of primary care’s future. Not surprisingly, the report talks about medical homes, with patient-centered, team-based care. More surprisingly, though, … Continue reading
