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Maintenance of Certification: Who’s Regulating the Regulators?

By RICH DUSZAK, MD When four physician certification boards founded the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) in 1933, those forward thinking organizations—and their professional society sponsors—launched a national movement toward ever increasing...

Published Sun, Sep 24 2017 1:39 PM by THCB

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Front-Line Managers are Key to Wellness Program Participation

By TOM UNDERWOOD What’s the difference between a company with a high participation rate in wellness programs and a low one? As it turns out, front-line managers—the people who run the daily operations and work the most closely with their... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 08 2010 4:12 PM by The Health Care Blog

Mau-Mauing the Medical Loss Ratio

By JOHN GRAHAM Senator Max Baucus recently admitted that he never read the new health care law. But that hasn’t stopped him from trying to re-write it after the fact, in a way that would drive more health plans from... Read More...

Published Tue, Sep 21 2010 8:29 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Surprise

By BRIAN KLEPPER Check out this March 3rd article - click here - from the recent HIMSS conference, in which Dave Garets, President and CEO of HIMSS Analytics,"gazes into the future and predicts major trends for the next 12 months."... Read More...

Published Mon, Mar 15 2010 12:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Panel Discussion: The Role of Consumers in Health 2.0

By Matthew Holt At the Health 2.0 Goes to Washington conference June 7, 2010 there was an excellent panel discussing the role of consumers in Health 2.0. It was moderated by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn from THINK-Health. Panelists were Linda Harris from... Read...

Published Thu, Jul 22 2010 1:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Consumers, Conferences

Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 60

Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I report from a hedgehog cafe in Tokyo. In this episode, Jess asks me about Bright Health’s $200 million raise and the significance of Amazon’s new EMR product. We also talk about Health 2.0 Asia-Japan, which is...

Published Tue, Dec 04 2018 8:49 AM by THCB

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Wellness, Personalized Medicine, Amazon, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Blockchain, Bright Health

Many Ways of Skinning a Statistical Cat

By SAURABH JHA MD In this episode of Firing Line, Saurabh Jha (aka @RogueRad), has a conversation with Professor Brian Nosek, a metaresearcher and co-founder of Center for Open Science. They discuss the implications of this study, which showed that there...

Published Fri, Nov 30 2018 7:01 AM by THCB

Filed under: Data, Saurabh Jha, Radiology Firing Line Podcasts, data analysis, Radiology Firing Line Podcast

New Study: Medicare’s Readmission Penalties May Be Killing Patients

By KIP SULLIVAN JD On the morning of December 21, I opened my copy of the New York Times to find an op-ed that said almost exactly what I had said in a two-part article The Health Care Blog posted two weeks earlier. The op-ed criticized the Hospital Readmissions...

Published Tue, Jan 08 2019 7:46 AM by THCB

Filed under: Congress, Medicare, CMS, Politics, value-based care, Kip Sullivan, MedPAC, Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

From EHR to Paper to EHR .. to Paper??

By HANS DUVEFELT, MD I can’t help myself from telling patients how things really work in health care. But I feel they have a right to know. When I see new patients their jaw usually drops when I sit down with them next to the computer with a stack of...

Published Tue, Apr 10 2018 12:09 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

The Tapeworms are Hungry for Direct Primary Care

By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD When Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan (AmBerGan) announced their healthcare partnership, Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett declared “the ballooning costs of healthcare act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy.” He...

Published Fri, Apr 13 2018 8:13 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Public Anxiety Meets The Democratic Effort to Get Health Care Done at All Costs

By ROBERT LASZEWSKI The latest polls are an unmitigated disaster for Democratic efforts to get their health care bills passed. This from Rasmussen this morning:“Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional...

Published Mon, Nov 23 2009 10:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Robert Laszewski, Congress, Reform

Time to put aside the intellectual disputes for now

By Matthew Holt It’s always fun to see my friends beating each other up in public....and if you read down in the comments on the post published yesterday you’ll see a significant dispute between Maggie Mahar and the Klepper/Kibbe/Lazsweski/Enthoven team...

Published Sat, Oct 31 2009 3:00 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Brian Klepper, David Kibbe, Robert Laszewski, Policy/Politics, Matthew Holt, Policy, Public Option, Maggie Mahar

Five Things Hospitals and Health Systems Have to Get Good at Fast

By JOE FLOWER There is a way to avoid a collapse of healthcare in this country. It’s getting scary. We are facing, before the end of this decade, a bifurcated future. The way things are going now—with the economy wheezing,... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 28 2011 6:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

A Modest Proposal: What If All Specialty Procedures Were Coded with 4 CPT Codes?

By PAUL FISCHER, MD In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Barbara Levy, Chairwoman of the Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC), commented on the American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) decision to have minimal primary care participation on the...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2011 10:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, AMA, RUC, Coding

Potassium Iodide Pills

By DEREK LOWE Well, the nuclear crisis in Japan seems to be causing a run on potassium iodide (KI), and not just in Japan. If news reports are to be believed, people in many other regions (such as the west coast of the US and Canada) are stocking up,...

Published Wed, Mar 30 2011 8:58 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Derek Lowe, The Insider's Guide to Health Care, Postassium iodide, Radioactive iodine

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Maintenance of Certification: Who’s Regulating the Regulators?

Front-Line Managers are Key to Wellness Program Participation

Mau-Mauing the Medical Loss Ratio

The Surprise

Panel Discussion: The Role of Consumers in Health 2.0

Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 60

Many Ways of Skinning a Statistical Cat

New Study: Medicare’s Readmission Penalties May Be Killing Patients

From EHR to Paper to EHR .. to Paper??

The Tapeworms are Hungry for Direct Primary Care

Public Anxiety Meets The Democratic Effort to Get Health Care Done at All Costs

Time to put aside the intellectual disputes for now

Five Things Hospitals and Health Systems Have to Get Good at Fast

A Modest Proposal: What If All Specialty Procedures Were Coded with 4 CPT Codes?

Potassium Iodide Pills