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Swine flu, uninsurance and not-so fondly remembering the teenage years

By Matthew Holt We get sent lots of rants to our tips line, most of which we ignore in an amused jaundiced way. But this one I found very amusing. I'm not sure it's 100% accurate, but it is very... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 30 2009 7:18 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health Plans

Health 2.0 Heads to San Diego: Early Bird Pricing Ends TODAY

The New Year is here and Health 2.0 is celebrating by announcing some new updates for the Spring Fling Conference in San Diego, March 21-22, 2011 and the Fifth Annual Fall Conference is San Francisco, September 26-27, 2011. We also... Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 03 2011 10:48 AM by The Health Care Blog

Olberman, hysterical hypocrisy expose

By Matthew Holt A really fun piece from Keith Olbermann as he shows how the entire Gang of Six and more voted for fully socialized flood insurance and yet seem to have a problem with an independent government run public... Read More...

Published Sun, Oct 04 2009 1:21 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, Matthew Holt, Policy

Anne Marie O’Callaghan and Perjeta

By DAVID BELK, MD A respected group of cancer specialists developed a chemotherapy program for a *** cancer patient. But then her insurance company denied the claim, so the cancer center stuck her with a bill three times as large as what they would have...

Published Wed, Jan 20 2016 5:08 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Non-Profit IDNs: Where’s Da Beef?

By GREGG MASTERS I have followed this narrative for quite some time albeit inside the industry contained debate of whether so-called ‘non-profit’ [501(c)3] hospitals or their parent systems (really more aptly characterized as “tax exempt”) actually earn...

Published Thu, May 28 2015 1:57 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

The Futility of Patient Matching

By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD The original sin of health records interoperability was the loss of consent in HIPAA. In 2000, when HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) first became law, the Internet was hardly a thing in healthcare. The...

Published Thu, Oct 25 2018 9:30 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Patients, ONC, Politics, HIE, Interoperability, TEFCA

Another Myth that Refuses to Die: As Medicare Goes, So Goes the Nation

By PAUL KECKLEY Medicare is a big deal in U.S. healthcare: no doubt. It’s the $683 billion federal program that provides insurance coverage to 59 million Americans, up 3 million from 2015. It covers 16% of the population and accounts for 20% of total...

Published Wed, Apr 11 2018 2:20 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

What Does Congressional Gridlock Mean for the Rest of the Country?

By AMY LONG and JOE MOLLOY Often, a Congressional gridlock is essentially good. This is because the executive arm of government is forced to consider a bipartisan approach to issues if it’s to secure the approval of both Democrats and Republicans in Congress...

Published Tue, Dec 18 2018 10:13 AM by THCB

Filed under: Congress, Politics, Obamacare, Affordable Care Act, Health policy, Trump, Midterm Elections, Amy Long, Joe Molloy, Congressional gridlock

The Importance of Patient Engagement in Post-Acute Care

By BRIAN HOLZER MD, MBA Leaders in hospitals and health systems as well as post-acute care providers such as skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and Home Health Care (HHC) agencies operate in a complex environment. Currently, the health care reimbursement...

Published Wed, Dec 19 2018 6:28 AM by THCB

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, ACOs, Health policy, patient engagement, value-based care, health innovation, Brian Holzer, post-acute care

Saving Health Care, Saving America

By BRIAN KLEPPER, DAVID C. KIBBE, ROBERT LASZEWSKI and ALAIN ENTHOVEN So far, Congress' response to the health care crisis has been alarmingly disappointing in three ways. First, by willingly accepting enormous sums from health care special interests...

Published Fri, Oct 30 2009 6:08 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Brian Klepper, David Kibbe, Reform, Policy/Politics, Policy, Transparency, Current Affairs, Marketplace, primary care, Corruption, The Industry

Senate Health Care Reform: Two Huge Problems, One Giant Red Herring

By ROGER COLLIER Pity poor Senator Harry Reid. Not only is he facing an uphill reelection fight in Nevada, but as Majority Leader, he must reconcile the health care reform bills from the Finance and the Health, Education, Labor and... Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 28 2009 12:41 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: The Public Option, Roger Collier

The Perfect Office Note? SOAP, APSO or aSOAP?

By HANS DUVEFELT MD I’ve been toying with this dilemma for a while: SOAP notes (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan) are too long; APSO just jumbles the order, but the core items are still too far apart, with too much fluff in between. We need something...

Published Wed, Jan 16 2019 6:12 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, EMR, Hans Duvefelt, Patient Notes

Are We Too Small to Succeed?

By DON LINDSTROM The logic behind the government bailouts in the financial and automobile industries goes like this: some institutions are so large and interconnected that their failure could collapse the entire economy. They are considered to be too...

Published Mon, Nov 09 2009 3:50 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: AMA, Economics

Modest step in the reform journey shows the idiocy of our political system

By Matthew Holt It does seem to take a health care bill to remind us all how incredibly screwed up the political process is in these here United States. The Medicare Modernization Act was railroaded through by Tom Delay and... Read More...

Published Sun, Nov 08 2009 8:22 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health Care Reform in the U.K. and U.S

By HERBERT MATHEWSON, MD “England and America are two great nations separated by a common language.” -attributed to both Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw In 1965 I spent the summer of my third year in medical school at the... Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 03 2011 6:51 AM by The Health Care Blog

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