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• 2015 – Another Year of Uncertainty?
• Future of Provider-Sponsored Health Plans and Managing Risk
• No Thanks, I Already Have Number
• "Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase" - Martin Luther King
• 10 Key Trends Shaping the mHealth market until 2017
• 11th Annual Consumerism Web Summit 2012
• 15 Big Health Care Business Questions for 2009 and beyond by Clive Riddle
• 15 Things to Know From Three New TeleHealth Studies
• 196 Pages of the Patient’s Bill of Rights
• 20 Interesting Takeaways From the CMS NORC Next Generation ACO First Annual Report
• 2008: Actionable Transformation
• 2010 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports
• 2011 Predictive Modeling Priorities
• 2014 TOP 10 Watchlist
• 2017 Employer Health Care Strategies and Trends
• 2017 MSSP ACOs By The Numbers
• 2018 CMS Medicare Shared Savings Program: 43 Previous ACOs out, 124 New ACOs In
• 25 Things to Know About The CMS Medicare ACO Proposed Rule: Pathways to Success
• 52% of healthcare IT leaders evaluating cloud-based solutions for population health management
• 53% percentage of young adults using social media for healthcare reviews
• 6 Ways to Improve Your Member Communications
• A Current Snapshot of Medicare Advantage, PDP Medicare Employer Group Enrollment
• A Definitive Study and Reference Resource on Healthcare Cost and Utilization
• A Different Way to Fix Medicare
• A Dozen Takeaways From PwC’s Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2018 Report
• A Dozen Things To Know About The Trump Healthcare Executive Order and Elimination of CSR Payments
• A Health Care “Moon Shot”
• A New Era in Psychiatric Hospital Accreditation: Four Questions for DNV GL Healthcare
• A New way of Looking at Hospitals
• A Nice Development in HDHPs: More Reduced Cost Sharing For Targeted Conditions
• A Penny (Or More) For Your Thoughts
• A Practical Roadmap for the Perilous Journey from a Culture of Entitlement to a Culture of Accountability
• A Quick Look at Provider Billing Facts
• A Selective List of National Medical Home Web Sites and Resources
• A Snapshot of Managed Care Pie
• A Stitch In Time…Will Cost A Lot of Money
• A Tour of 2019 Healthcare Predictions
• A Trio of Value Based Care Surveys Indicate Technology Opportunities to Address Administrative Challenges
• A Visit to Planet Gawande
• A global pandemic calls for global response: The importance of equitable global vaccine distribution
• A mission statement must be more than a PR tactic
• A response to Friedman and Obamacare Innovation Surprise
• A virtual tour of new studies on virtual visits
• ACA Exchange 2020 Final Rule Changes and Survey of Exchange Health Plan Participation and Expectations
• ACA Is Alive! Now What?
• ACO Capitation 101: Understanding Medicare ACOs’ real potential to influence patterns of care
• ACO Directory 2013
• ACO Explosion
• ACOs by the numbers
• ACOs now serve 14% of Americans
• AHIP Announces Launch of new Health System Change Initiative
• AHIP’s Karen Ignagni Discusses Value-Based Payment Models
• ARPA-H Needs to Think Bigger
• AcCOUNTable Care? Engagement Is Not Required, Just Send Dollars
• Accelerated and Deferred Strategic Maintenance
• Accenture Pegs 2015 Private Exchange Enrollment at 6 Million
• Accenture Says Physician Laggards are Poised to Finally Adopt
• Accenture on Independent MDs in the near future: Fewer of Them; With More Performing Subscription Based Services
• Accenture’s Advice to Pharma: It’s The Evidence, Stupid.
• Accountable Care Organizations in California: Lessons Learned
• Accountable Care Organizations: A New Pathway for Physicians and Hospitals
• Accuracy of Health Provider Directories
• Accuracy of Provider Directories
• Addressing Mental Health Requires Greater Focus on the Workplace
• Affordability and Coverage of Prescription Drugs for Seniors: A Gallup Poll and a KFF Study
• Aligning Wellness Program Incentives to Increase Use of Digital Health Apps
• All Things to All People Isn't Working
• AmazonBerkshireJP Healthcare: Think About Kaiser
• An Extreme Concentration of Expenditures
• An Innovative Acquisition for HCA
• An Interview With Kaiser’s Robert Pearl, MD on Mistreated Patients and the American Health Care System
• An interview with Brian C. Smith on Prospective Overpayment and Fraud Prevention
• Analysis of Managed Care Organization CEO Turnover Rates
• Analytics in the People's Republic of China
• Analyzing Blue Cross Blue Shield Plan Administrative Costs
• Anchors Aweigh!
• And You Thought Health Care Was Bad
• And You Thought Health Insurance Was Bad
• Animal Farm Meets Health Care
• Annual Census Report on Health Insurance Coverage: What Will this Report Look Like After 2014?
• Annual Global Oncology Medicine Spending Tops $100 Billion
• Annual U.S. Total Economic Cost of Overweight and Obesity Pegged at $270 Billion
• Anthem, IngenioRx and Taking a Total View of the Prescription Drug Trend
• Aon Hewitt Finds Employee Wellness Incentives Continue to Proliferate, Tie Rewards to Results
• April Fool’s Day Brings Some Humor to Healthcare
• Are the Health Coverage and Tax Credit Details for Filing 1040s Really That Complex?
• Are you ready to meet the challenge of managing member identities?
• Are your healthcare consumers who they say they are?
• Attention, Walmart Shoppers!
• Benchmarking Employer Onsite Health and Fitness Centers
• Benefits Cycle
• Big Bump in Emergency Department Use of CT Scans
• Blue Shield of California Releases Executive Pay Report
• Boston: Coincidences, Complexity, Continuity, Care
• Brand Direct Marketing: Value Driven Action Lifts Topline
• Breaking Up Is Good to Do
• But Which Half?
• CBO: Coverage by Oration
• CMS Office of the Actuary on Health Expenditure Projections
• CMS Pronouncements on Pioneer ACO Results and 2014 HIX Premiums
• CMS Releases hospital specific charges for more than 3,000 hospitals
• COBRA Costs: The Good News, Bad News and Good News
• COVID Wars: Attack of the Variants
• COVID in 2022: Key Components of Moving to an Endemic State
• COVID-19 Vaccine Incentives: CMS Guidance Needed to Help Medicaid Programs Go Further
• COVID-19 and the Uncertainties for 2021 Health Plan Premiums
• CVS Caremark PBM Releases Its Own Report Card and Gives Itself A’s
• CVS, Aetna, Retail Integrated Delivery Systems and the Strange World of Frenemies
• Cadillac tax may hit over 25% of employers starting in 2018
• Calling Mr. Watson
• Can 2008 be the year that health communication gets personal?
• Can Slick Trump Sick?
• Can decision support consist of more than threats, promises and stiff upper lips?
• Can the Consumer Choose Wisely in 2014?
• Canaries in the Coal Mine for Employer Coverage
• Capitation and Medical Homes Or Is this the return of the Staff Model HMO?
• Carrots and Sticks
• Cartoons for Health Care Professionals
• Catching up with Advisory Board’s Ken Leonczyk on the State of the Health Plan Industry and what health plan leaders need to know for 2022
• Celebrating an Anniversary Under Threat of Divorce
• Centura Health Shares Strategies for Reducing Readmissions in Bundled Payment Arrangements
• Change in VBAC Guidelines
• Changing Economics in an Era of Healthcare Reform
• Changing the conversation from wellness to total wellbeing
• Charity Care & Community Benefits: The New Paradigm
• Checking out 16,275 Patient Health Apps
• Checking out CMS’ Hospital Compare
• China’s Commercial Health Insurance Market
• Chinese Healthcare and More with Rong Yi
• Cigna COVID Global Impact Study: Physical Health Indicators Globally More Resilient, Stable Than Mental Health and Other Factors
• Cigna Study: More Stressed + Less Rested + Less Family & Friends Time = America
• Clicks-and-Mortar: Health Care's Future
• Clinical Integration: Déjà Vu All Over Again?
• Clinicians Embracing mHealth – but not so much if patients are involved
• Clive Riddle's Welcome
• Coming Down from Cyberchondria, part I
• Coming Down from Cyberchondria, part II
• Common Culture – A source of strength for integrated delivery systems
• Commonwealth Fund International Survey of Primary Care Physicians
• Comparing HDHP, HMO and PPO Value based on Employer Benefit Survey Data
• Complimentary White Papers
• Comprehensive Assessment of ACA Factors That Will Affect Individual Market Premiums in 2014
• Connecting individuals to complex health care fraud schemes
• Consumer Driven Healthcare and the Mobile Market
• Consumer Insights and Kaiser Initiative on SDOH
• Consumer More Generous This Year with Expressing Health Plan Satisfaction
• Consumer Surveys on SDOH Experiences: Kaiser, McKinsey and Waystar
• Consumer Surveys: Finding a Doctor, and Finding Out About Electronic Medical Records
• Consumerism: 2011 Industry Insiders Perspective
• Consumers and Digital Technology: What’s the Deal With Healthcare?
• Consumers and Physicians and Technology in 2015
• Content Marketing Dominates Social Media Trends in 2014
• Contracting Web Summit e-Poll Results
• Corrective Lens Needed for 2020 Healthcare Vision
• Cost of a data breach in health care reaches $355
• Costs & Transparency Number One for 2020 on HCEG’s Top 10 List
• Cyber attacks – a new reality for health care organizations
• DME: A Modest Proposal
• Data Breaches – Unfortunately Healthcare Is the Leading Industry
• Data from the Consumer Driven Healthcare Summit
• Dental and Vision Plan Satisfaction in 2021
• Deploying SDoH Factors in the COVID Battle
• Designing the Perfect ACO
• Developing Excellence in Primary Care
• Diabetes by the Numbers
• Different Approaches in Tackling the Surprise Medical Bill Problem
• Disobey, Please
• Do Unto Robots As You…
• Do We Really Want Better Health?
• Doctors and Hospitals Revisit a New Definition of Clinical Integration
• Does Patient Satisfaction Matter?
• Doing Different Differently
• Driving Consumer Engagement with Powerful Provider Directories
• Dual Surge: Ineligible Dependents, and Dependent Eligibility Audits
• EHR and Patient Self-Pay: A Tale of Two Provider Woes
• Easy Answers Make Poor Gifts
• Effectiveness of SMS in healthcare
• Eighteen Things to Know from the 2018 KFF Employer Benefits Survey
• Elon, Do We Have a Disaster for You!
• Emails at the heart of cross-channel marketing to engage customers
• Employees Feel Their Own Health Plan is Better Than Most Others
• Employer Health Care Strategies: Multinational Edition
• Employer Positions on Health Reform: Measuring a Moving Target
• Employer Surveys Project 2018 Cost Increases in the Five Percent Range
• Employers Committed to Active Employee Health Benefits for 2010
• Engaging Your Audience with Content Marketing
• Enrollment in Federal Marketplace & 2014 Premium Tax Credits
• Entrepreneurship Trumps Bureaucracy
• EpiPens By The Numbers
• Et Tu, Oscar?
• Everything Everyone Had To Say About Halbig and King
• Everything in Healthcare Is Design
• Examining ACO Makeup Evolution During Past Three Years
• Examining Unnecessary Medicare Patient Surgeries During First Year of Pandemic
• Exchange Exchanges for What?
• Factors attributed to medication non-adherence
• Fail to Prepare, Prepare to Fail
• Fewer Access Problems, More Uninsured
• Fidelity on Retiree Future Health Care Costs and HSA Participation
• Fifteen Things to Know from the 2019 America’s Health Rankings Report
• Fighting Healthcare fraud and over-prescriptions with predictive analytics
• Fighting Over Who The Healthcare Punching Bag Should Be: Health Plans vs. Pharma
• Fine-Tuning your E-Mail Subject Line
• First, Let’s Blow Up All the Hospitals
• Five Healthcare Prognosticators That Resonated for 2022
• Five Key Trends for 2011
• Five Questions for Change Healthcare's Chris Simpkins and Dr. Andrei Gonzales
• Five Questions for Erin Benson and Rich Morino with LexisNexis Health Care: Post-Webinar Interview
• Five Questions for John League with Advisory Board on the State of Telehealth Today and What’s Next?
• Five Questions for Kelly Proctor, Physical Environment Sector Lead, DNV GL Healthcare: Post-Webinar Interview
• Five Questions for Patrick Horine, CEO DNV GL Healthcare: Post-Webinar Interview
• Five Questions for Provider Data Experts on the No Surprise Act
• Five Questions for Rachel Sokol with Advisory Board on Frictionless Healthcare Experiences
• Five Sterile Processing Questions for Stephen Cuthbertson, College Medical Center and Jeremy Gibson-Roark, DNV GL Healthcare: Post-Webinar Interview
• Five Things to Know from Humana’s 2020 Bold Goal Progress Report
• Five Trends to watch for with 2010
• Focus on Value to Survive, Maybe Flourish, for Next Four Years
• Four Factors Fueling Demand for Telehealth
• Four Important Takes on the Key Healthcare Trends and Issues for 2021
• Four Key Takeaways About Stroke Program Certification
• Four Questions for Aaron Fulner, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Edifecs, Post-Webinar Interview:
• Four Questions for CoxHealth: Post-Webinar Interview
• Four Questions for Erin Benson and Courtney Timmons with LexisNexis Health Care: Post-Webinar Interview
• Four Questions for The Whyzen Team at Health Intelligence Company on Solving the Rubix Cube of Health Plan Benefit Design with Analytics
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• Gabby Giffords Is the Reality Star of US Healthcare
• Gambling on Health Care
• Games (Some) People Play
• Get Ready for (Healthcare) Microgrids
• Get Ready…ACA Superbowl
• Getting Healthy
• Getting More Precise About Precision Medicine
• Getting One’s Head Around the Physician EHR Marketplace
• Getting on the Blockchain Bandwagon
• Getting to the bottom of Counter-Intuitive Data
• Go Ahead, A.I. — Surprise Us
• Goldman Exec: Economy is Growing, but…
• Good News -- Bad News
• Google Wants to Helpout Your Health
• Google’s Alphabet, Facebook’s Meta, and now Anthem’s Elevance
• Gore Someone Else’s Ox, Please
• Gorillas in Our Midst
• Got $285k for Healthcare Costs in Your Retirement Years?
• Grading the Emergency Care System
• Growing where you are already planted
• Guest Blog from Sander Domaszewicz on Decline in Utilization Metrics
• Guy D'Andrea on Pitfalls and Practical Solutions with Shared Savings
• H1N1 Flu: Key Info, Web Resources and News Headlines
• HHS-CMS Share Marketplace Projections and Nine Open Enrollment Strategies
• HIMSS: Only 3% of Providers Believe Their Organization is Highly-Prepared for Transition to Value-Based Payment Model
• Hacking a Better Health System
• Have you taken a prescription drug during the past month?
• He/She Said | Doctor Said
• Health Benefit Costs for Large Employers – Up 6% again in 2017
• Health Care Crisis and Reform: Everything Old is New Again
• Health Care Data Predictions for 2012
• Health Care Fraud Detection: Intersection of Data and Linking Analytics
• Health Care Goes to the Mall
• Health Care Is Personal: In Memory of Karen
• Health Care Stakeholders Weigh In On the Obama Budget
• Health Care's Juicero Problem
• Health Care's Kodak Moment
• Health Co-ops: Checking out Group Health Cooperative
• Health Engagement and MLK
• Health Insurance Marketplace Opening Week Enrollment
• Health Insurance Top 10 Issues ‘07
• Health Insurance is Good For You (?)
• Health Literacy and the Misplaced Mantra, part 2 of 2
• Health Net Said: ACEP Said – A Dustup Over Emergency Room Use
• Health Plan Companies Start New Year M&A Activity With a Bang
• Health Plan Contracting Web Summit
• Health Plan Coverage of H1N1 Virus Administration Varies
• Health Plan Medical Ratio and Administrative Expense Snapshots
• Health Plan Medicare Ratio and Administrative Expense Snapshots
• Health Plan Member Portals
• Health Plan Readmission Strategies: Contracting and Care Management Approaches
• Health Plan Readmission Strategies: Contracting and Care Management Approaches
• Health Plan “Early Adopters” for Extended Dependent Care Coverage
• Health Plans and the Opiod Abuse Crisis
• Health Reform: The Start-Up
• Health Reform: What Should Pass or Run Out of Gas
• Health Reform’s New Customer Journey
• Health Risk Incentives
• Health Sector Economic Indicators – Altarum Institute
• Health Systems Advised to Tread Carefully When Considering Provider-led Health Plans
• Health Systems Organizing Themselves Around Individuals
• Health literacy: do we have the mantra right? (Part 1 of 2)
• HealthChangeBulletin
• HealthShareTV Videos on Reducing Readmissions
• Healthcare (Health Care) in a word (or two)
• Healthcare 2017 Viewed Through Brokers’ Lens
• Healthcare Bowl 2017: Atlanta vs New England
• Healthcare Consumers on Technology and Decision Making: A Dozen Things To Know from a UnitedHealthcare Survey
• Healthcare Customer Service and Retention Concepts and Relevant Data Don’t Have to be Specific to Healthcare
• Healthcare Incumbents: Watch Your Sides as Well As Your Back For Disruptions
• Healthcare Innovation Models and Accelerators
• Healthcare Needs Some #GoodTrouble
• Healthcare Organization Mobile Device Use: Check That Pager
• Healthcare Startups Capitalizing on the Sharing Economy and More
• Healthcare Workers Are More Confident About Their Prospects and the Future
• Healthcare costs – not grandchildren gone wild – the top retiree concern
• Healthcare’s Bridge Fire
• Healthcare’s Million Dollar Blocks
• HealthshareTV – New videos added this week
• Henry Loubet on Three Immediate Trends Impacting 2016 Healthcare
• Hewitt Says We’re More Engaged in Selecting Our Benefits
• Hiding Our Heads in the Sand
• Hiding in Plain Sight
• High Deductible PPO Plans Versus CDHPs
• High Deductible Plans, Absentee Employer Contributions and the Burden of Employee Cost Sharing
• High Drug Prices, Complexity of Drug Development and What the Market Will Bear
• Holograms to the Rescue
• Home, Sweet Work
• Hospital Mortality at Five Star versus One Star Facilities
• Hot Healthcare M&A Market Starting to Cool
• Hot Temperatures, Hot Rhetoric: Turn on the AC
• How Brokers See the Recession’s Impact on Employee Benefits
• How Do You Build a Culture of Innovation at a Healthcare Organization?
• How Health Plans Impact Revenue Performance and Improve Quality Outcomes
• How Much is Too Much? Hospital C-Suite Compensation
• How National Thought Leaders View The Post SCOTUS Public HIX World
• How Value-Based Care Ties to Physician Performance
• How are Providers Managing the Transition with Conflicting Incentives in Payment Structures?
• How are health plans meeting behavioral health needs of members?
• How do Insiders Feel About Consumerism Now?
• How do you Define Population Health?
• How much of a game-changer is MACRA and the MIPS and APM paths?
• How the Mighty Haven't Fallen
• How the Pandemic Impacts Physician Revenue, Visits, Well-Being and View of the Future
• How to Increase Physician Engagement in Value Based Care: Deloitte Survey
• Humana Study Measures Claims Costs and Absence Rate by level of Wellness Program Engagement
• Humana Study on Workplace Wellness: It’s not just ROI
• Humana and the Payer-Agnostic Circle of Life
• Humana’s Vipin Gopal on Advancing the Frontiers in Predictive Modeling
• I = Innovation
• I Am Dr. Groot
• I Really Wish You Wouldn't Do That
• I Want to Believe
• I'll Take My Care To Go
• I'm Shocked, Shocked
• ICD-10 Web Summit: Issues for 2010
• ICD10: The Impact on P4P, Global Care, Billing and HIEs
• IMS Institute on the Global Oncology Market
• IQVIA Report on Prescription Costs: 12 Things to Know
• Identity Crisis: The Need for Improved Healthcare Identity Management
• Identity Crisis: What’s in a name?
• If Kaiser Is Not the Answer, What Is the Question?
• Imagining the Future Us
• Impact and Implications of Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Impact of Stress on Health Risk
• Improving Chronic Care Outcomes: Depression Management Coaching
• In China, It’s the 21st Century
• In your member enrollment process leaving you exposed?
• Inaccurate Provider Directories Have a Direct Impact on Patients
• Increased and Decreased Utilization: The Recession Driven Paradox and Behavioral Economics
• Independent Pharmacy Accountable Care Organizations
• Individual Medical: Opportunity Is Now
• Influenza Joins The 1%ers – The One Bit of Good COVID News
• Infographic: Chronic Care is a Team Sport
• Inside the Mind of Managed Care Contracting Executives
• Insider’s View on the Direction of Consumerism and Consumer Driven Plans
• Insurance spending on behavioral health: Up for Mental Health / Down for Substance Use
• International Health Care Data and Comparisons
• Investing in an Index Fund tied to the Milliman Medical Index instead of the Dow Jones Industrial Average
• Inviting China and other Emerging Countries to a Medical Technology Innovation State Dinner
• Involved But Not Committed
• Is There Life After Mandates?
• It Depends on the Outcome: Payments for Providers – Benefits for Consumers
• It Was Those Other Guys
• It's About Time
• It’s Complicated – Navigating Health Care Integrated Delivery Networks
• It’s a Narrow World After All
• It’s the Data, Stupid
• Juggling Risk
• Jurassic Park: Rise of the Health Insurers
• Just Doing Our Jobs
• Just Say No
• Kaiser Family Foundation’s 2014 Employer Health Benefits Survey
• Kaiser Permanente Goes “Open Source” With Their Internal Medical Terminology
• Kaiser Permanente by the Numbers -2nd Qtr 2011
• Kaiser by the Numbers - 4th Qtr 2011
• Keeping It Clean
• Keeping up on Healthcare Reform Requirements
• Key Consumer Touchpoints: Patient Bills and Patient Reviews
• Laurie Gelb's Welcome
• Let’s Move to the Atlantic Seaboard or North Dakota: State Specific Premium and Deductible Data
• Life Expectancy at Birth in 2020: One Simple Number for COVID-Deniers
• Life in the Web: What Page Are You On? (part I)
• Life in the Web: What Page Are You On? (part II)
• Lindsay Resnick on More Effective Medicare Marketing
• Lindsay Resnick's Welcome
• List of Chronic Diseases for Young Adults – Add Mental Health!
• Living in a Retro Health Care System
• Long Term ACO Impact: Medicare vs. Medicaid vs. Commercial
• Long Term Care COVID-19 Deaths – Six Things To Know from CMS Data
• Look Up! The Stars Are Aligning for Prevention and Wellness!
• Looking A Little Deeper into CMS National Health Expenditure Report
• Looking Back at Healthcare Headline news this week 20, 10 and 5 years ago
• Looking Backward and Forward at How Industry Insiders View Trends
• Looking for the Future in the Past
• Lung Cancer Misperceptions: The “Any One Any Lung” Survey
• MCOL Blog | Complimentary On-Demand Webinar: Executing on the Individual Mandate – Challenges and Opportunities
• MCOL Blog | Fraud, Waste & Abuse Continuum in Healthcare
• MCOL Blog | Key healthcare business trends to watch for 2013
• MCOL Blog | Latest Trends in the California Healthcare Market
• MCOL.com has a new fresh look!
• Magnificent Seven Healthcare Business Trends for 2017
• Making Sense of What’s Next for Health Reform
• Making sense of Big Data
• Making the Old New Again
• Management and Rehabilitation of Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
• Managing Medicaid Patients with Physical and Behavioral Health Dual Diagnoses through Advanced Analytics
• Managing Patient Security and Privacy on a New Data-Sharing Playground
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