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ACO Capitation 101: Understanding Medicare ACOs’ real potential to influence patterns of care
By Claire Thayer, January 26, 2012MCOL’s Healthcare Web Summit announces ACO Capitation 101: Understanding Medicare ACOs’ real potential to influence patterns of care, scheduled for Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 1PM Eastern. As the pioneer ACOs gain experience with the various capitation models and if CMS incorporates capitation in the standard model...
More information: www.healthwebsummit.com/gorman021512.htm
Very Wired Meets Very Tired
By Laurie Gelb, January 24, 2012
We recently moved to a new city, so I set us up with docs at a Very Wired Hospital (we'll call it VWH) that boasts a fully integrated health system and enterprise EHR. My husband sees many specialists, so we've made several visits there already. I was excited that he would finally have a single record.
The yield to date on my attempt at integration.............Click to continue
Thought Leaders Thoughts on Readmissions
By Clive Riddle, January 20, 2012
Health Policy Publishing LLC this week launched its inaugural issue of Readmissions News, which is targeted at stakeholders interested in the management of hospital readmissions. One of the features of the new monthly newsletters is a Thought Leaders corner, and in this issue, experts were asked "Do you feel significant potential savings and improvements from further reductions in hospital readmissions can be achieved through the current set of public and private initiatives, or are expectations too high?"
Here are excerpts of what they had to say in response.............Click to continue
The Confusion in Coverage
By Kim Bellard, January 11, 2012
The more I think about our health care system, the crazier it seems.
Let’s do a thought experiment. You’re in an accident, and have an orthopedic surgeon fix some broken bones. You are fortunate enough to be employed and to have health insurance from your employer, so certainly your health insurance will pay the bills, right?.............Click to continue
How Much is Too Much? Hospital C-Suite Compensation
By Claire Thayer, January 9, 2012
MCOL’s Healthcare Web Summit announces How Much is Too Much? Hospital C-Suite Compensation, scheduled for Friday, January 20 from 10:00AM – 11:00AM Pacific . The mission of a not-for-profit hospital or healthcare system is fairly clear: Heal the region’s patients and provide benefit to the community. Yet hospital boards find themselves under increasing pressure to offer generous compensation packages in order to attract and retain the executives who can keep their organizations out of financial distress and help them prosper in a challenging reimbursement environment. This webinar features persons knowledgeable on healthcare compensation trends.
More information: www.healthwebsummit.com/pp012012.htm
Health Care Data Predictions for 2012
By Clive Riddle, January 6, 2012
The Ponemon Institute just released this list of top 2012 predictions in healthcare data, that they edited from various health care data thought leaders.............Click to continue
How Much is Too Much? Hospital C-Suite Compensation
By Claire Thayer, January 3, 2012
MCOL’s Healthcare Web Summit announces How Much is Too Much? Hospital C-Suite Compensation, scheduled for Friday, January 20 from 10:00AM – 11:00AM Pacific . The mission of a not-for-profit hospital or healthcare system is fairly clear: Heal the region’s patients and provide benefit to the community. Yet hospital boards find themselves under increasing pressure to offer generous compensation packages in order to attract and retain the executives who can keep their organizations out of financial distress and help them prosper in a challenging reimbursement environment. This webinar features persons knowledgeable on healthcare compensation trends.
More information: www.healthwebsummit.com/pp012012.htm
Medicare initiatives towards accountable care: Aetna’s Provider Collaboration Programs
By Claire Thayer, December 22, 2011
MCOL’s Healthcare Web Summit announces Moving Towards Accountable Care: Aetna’s Medicare Provider Collaboration Program, scheduled for Thursday, February 23rd from 1:00 PM to 2:00PM Eastern. As groups throughout the health care system work to develop Accountable Care Organizations, Aetna recently announced results of collaborative relationships with several medical groups in working together to accomplish two of the main goals of ACOs.............Click to continue
Good News -- Bad News
By Kim Bellard, December 19, 2011
Reading several recent news stories, I’m reminded of an old joke. A man gets a call from his doctor, who informs him he’s got the results of some tests. The doctor tells the man there is some good news and some bad news, and asks the man which he’d like to hear first. The man is taken aback, but – optimist that he is – asks for the good news first. The doctor dutifully informs the man he only has 24 hours to live. The man is stunned. “That’s the good news?” he asks incredulously. “What the hell is the bad news.............Click to continue
Unhappy Campers: Physicians and Health Reform
By Clive Riddle, December 15, 2011
The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions released their latest study this week: Physician perspectives about health care reform and the future of the medical profession.
Paul Keckley, Ph.D., the Center's Executive Director tells us "the data confirms that physicians are resistant to reform and are frustrated with the direction of the profession.............Click to continue
Benchmarking Employer Onsite Health and Fitness Centers
By Claire Thayer, December 13, 2011
MCOL’s Healthcare Web Summit announces the Benchmarking Employer Onsite Health and Fitness Centers, scheduled for Thursday, January 19th from 1:00 PM to 2:30PM Eastern. Regardless of size, every employer needs comparisons in their efforts to design, manage and expand the capabilities and performance of their worksite health and fitness centers. This session will provide attendees with the results of surveys intended to help employer-sponsors of such facilities benchmark against others.
More information: http://www.healthwebsummit.com/nawhc011912.html
Employer Positions on Health Reform: Measuring a Moving Target
By Clive Riddle, December 8, 2011
A multitude of studies continue to measure and monitor employer reactions to health reform. The big question typically included in surveys has to do with the employers likelihood of continuing to provide group health coverage. Findings have not been altogether consistent.............Click to continue
Ten Trends to Tend to in Two Thousand Twelve
By Clive Riddle, December 1, 2011
Alliteration abounds inside the MCOLBlog crystal ball. What trends and issues will significantly shape the business of health care in 2012? The MCOLBlog crystal ball knows all, sees all, and now tells all.............Click to continue
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