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The HMO in Your Future
By JOHN GOODMAN I have not been able to determine how you pronounce the acronym for Accountable Care Organization (ACO). Is it ā´ ko? Or ā´ so? Or ăh so´, as in Charlie Chan movies? What about ĕ´ ko, as in a canyon? Or simply ick, with a silent o? Anyway...
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Mon, Feb 28 2011 10:29 AM
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Quality or value? A Measure for the 21st Century
By MARYA ZILBERBERG, MD Fascinating, how in the same week two giants of evidence-based medicine have given such divergent views on the future of quality improvement. Here (free subscription required), Donald Berwick, the CMS administrator and founder...
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Fri, Mar 11 2011 12:03 PM
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The Incredible and Wasteful Complexity of the US Healthcare System
By HUMPHREY TAYLOR and IAN MORRISON During the health care reform debate, we wrote that most people’s attitudes to it were “confused, conflicted, clueless and cranky.” A major reason was that the American health care “system” is fiendishly complicated...
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Thu, Mar 24 2011 7:03 AM
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Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
By KIMBERLEY MANNING, MD On May 19, 1996, I graduated from medical school. And although I look and seem ridiculously youthful (I know, that’s what you were saying) it’s been–as my patients at Grady like to say–”a mi-nute”...
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Sun, Mar 27 2011 10:37 AM
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A Growing Chorus on the RUC
By BRIAN KLEPPER Yesterday on Kaiser Health News, Barbara Levy MD, the Chair of the AMA’s Relative Value Scale Update Committee (or RUC), published a glowing defense of the RUC’s activities. Her article extols the work of the 29 physician...
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Tue, Mar 29 2011 12:42 PM
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Medicare, Medicaid Get Squeezed in Ryan Plan
By MERRILL GOOZNER Everyone agrees that controlling health care costs is the key to bringing long-term federal budget deficits under control. Government spending on Medicare for seniors and Medicaid for the poor has grown nearly twice as fast as the rest...
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Tue, Apr 05 2011 2:13 PM
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To get the MU money, just a test
When ONC lunched the meaningful use program paying doctors up to $44,000 or more to adopt electronic medical records, I wondered–”how would they know?” Then I was told there would be a test. But I misheard, it’s not a test. Instead...
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Tue, Apr 19 2011 8:57 AM
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Interview: RelayHealth
It’s video week on THCB! We’ve had some technical difficulties, so for the next couple of days we will be showing some great interviews from companies who attended HIMSS or World Health Care Congress. Matthew Holt interviews Jim Broadbender...
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Wed, Apr 20 2011 1:10 AM
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Controlling the Medicare Budget – Two Feasible Proposals
By ROGER COLLIER How to slow Medicare’s escalating costs has been the big health care policy issue this month, with Republicans and Democrats offering competing proposals, each part of broader plans for reducing the federal deficit—projected to be $1...
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Wed, Apr 20 2011 8:37 AM
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THCB Live: SAP
Matthew Holt interviewed the leaders of enterprise software giant SAP at HIMSS 2011 back in late February. On the left it’s Andrew Flanagan, National Vice President – Healthcare, and on the right John Papandrea, Senior Vice President –...
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Wed, May 04 2011 5:45 PM
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ACA Market Stabilization Push Is On But Success Is Uncertain
By STEVEN FINDLAY A critical test in Congress comes this week in year 2 of the ACA wars. Will lawmakers do the right thing? It’s up in the air—again. Congress has until this Friday at midnight to pass a budget bill to fund the government through Sept...
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Wed, Mar 21 2018 1:04 AM
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Bad Medicine: Medicaid Managed Drug Plan Rollback
By DEVON HERRICK Many states have been looking for alternatives to reimbursing Medicaid providers piecemeal on a fee-for-service (FFS) basis. Increasingly they have been moving beneficiaries into Medicaid managed care plans. Today 39 states contract with...
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Thu, Mar 22 2018 9:59 AM
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Health in 2 point 00 — Episode 12
Jessica DaMassa asks me about the AMA & digital snake oil, Israel investing in Digital Health, and the budget impact on CSRs & Obamacare in today’s edition of Health in 2 point 00 — Matthew Holt Read More...
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Mon, Mar 26 2018 1:35 PM
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The Myth That Refuses to Die: All Health Care is Local
By PAUL KECKLEY In 1980, industry healthcare planners imagined a system where the centerpiece was a hospital in every community and a complement of physicians. Demand forecasting was fairly straightforward: based on the population’s growth and age, the...
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Wed, Mar 28 2018 4:05 PM
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MyFitnessPal and the State of Data Privacy in America
By JASON CHUNG This week MyFitnessPal announced that it had suffered a massive security breach which exposed or compromised 150 million MyFitnessPal accounts. Data that is affected included usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords. Luckily for...
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Fri, Mar 30 2018 5:06 PM
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