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• Medical Insurance Plans

  
  Health Choices — Authority: 151
  These days, medical insurance is more important than ever before. Between the growth of healthcare costs, more expensive medical technologies and procedures, individual and family insurance, or employer based insurance plans company health are of paramount importance. Without insurance, resources, capabilities and ...
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• Individual Health Insurance Plans

  
  Health Choices — Authority: 151
  Over $ 829 billion 10 years of health insurance reform bill passed by the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday, Obama White House and the insurance companies in America took off his gloves. Asserting that the premiums for the typical American family will grow 111 percent over the next decade, increasing to $ 4000 a year ...
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• Consider healthcare reform.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  May of you incredibly naive people quote highly questionable information about Canada, Norway, Sweden, Denmark … not realizing the significant differences in those economies to America’s. But, why would anyone expect you to understand that? You actually believe the American economy is recovering. For those that ...
  2 days ago

• Online management comes of age for chronic conditions

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 145
  ONLINE PATIENT SELF-MANAGEMENT provides a dynamic and economically feasible means for physicians to interact with patients. It can extend the practice of medicine to reach more patients, more frequently to improve their health outcomes. Those with obesity, for example, are at increased risk for cardiometabolic ...
  3 days ago

• Real Estate is Not the Only Industry Where Location Matters (video)

  
  Chris McIntyre — Authority: 93
  MSNBC Nightly News just published a story on the price variability between cities all across the country, something change:healthcare has been trying to spread the word about for years! Check out this great 2 minute video (embedded below) that describes the scenario pretty well! Related posts: Nick Produces a ...
  4 days ago

• Clinic with two doors – one for patients paying cash, the other for those with insurance

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 118
  On Manhattan’s Upper East Side an imaging center exists and patients may not know it, but there are two doors. One door is for patients who are paying cash - a concierge type set-up. The other door is for patients covered by insurance.The investigative report can be read on MSNBC’s Web site. Just click here.The ...
  6 days ago

• Obesity Will Soon Cost U.S. $344 Billion a Year

  
  Monster's Blog — Authority: 110
  Packing on the pounds.According to an interview by ABC News, if Americans continue to pack on the pounds at the rate they are now, the cost will be about $344 billion in medical-related expenses by 2018.  Did you hear that folks?  Obesity-related costs will be 21% of our total medical costs in a little less [...]
  1 week ago

• Hospitals worry about reform

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 118
  By Don AmmonFormer CEO, Adventist Health System WestThere is a compelling story today in one of the blogs on The Huffington Post. It explains how a 63-year-old female cancer patient will lose her health benefits if the Senate’s version of health reform - unveiled last night - were to pass. It describes how her COBRA ...
  1 week ago

• What health reform looks like in the real world

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 118
  By Kester FreemanRetired CEO, Palmetto HealthA handful of hospitals are in the process of reforming healthcare and these changes are happening now, without any mandates from Washington. Imagine that!The hospitals are participating in a program called QUEST: High Performing Hospitals, and a recent post on the Robert ...
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• What’s missing in the healthcare reform debate

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 118
  By Mike StephensRetired CEO, Hoag Memorial Hospital PresbyterianSeveral weeks ago I tuned into “The News Hour” on my local PBS channel. T.R. Reid, a longtime correspondent for The Washington Post, was discussing his recently published book, “The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer ...
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• Study: Current EMRs dont have measurable impact on cost or quality

  
  News — Authority: 127
  In news that isnt exactly going to help convince the holdouts of the benefits of health IT, electronic medical records so far have had a marginal effect on quality and cost of care, according to a new study. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, who are presenting their findings today, studied health ...
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• Acute care bundling can benefit patients, providers AND payers

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 118
  By Rick NorlingRetired CEO Premier healthcare alliance Innovative efforts at Geisinger Health System to re-engineer care have led to an exciting concept called acute care bundling.   The boundaries of acute care have typically been admission and discharge processes at hospitals. However, the opportunity for process ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hospitals get ready! Changes are coming

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 118
  We still have several hurdles to jump before healthcare reform becomes a reality but despite the work ahead of Congress, hospitals and their leaders need to prepare for changes coming down the pipeline. Payment reform is almost certain to be a part of any final healthcare legislation and hospitals need to get ready ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hospital board members need to value quality care

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 118
  By Ed HoweRetired president and CEO, Aurora Health Care This morning I read a shocking headline: “A new survey shows that half of hospital boards don’t rate quality as a top priority.” The survey is printed in Health Affairs, a leading journal regarding health policy. I find it astonishing that so few of these ...
  3 weeks ago

• Government should not act like a private insurance company

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 118
  By Mike StephensRetired CEO Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian  True cost savings from healthcare reform legislation will be highly unlikely if the government behaves like a private health insurance company. As announced late last week, the so-called public option will not impose what the plan will pay hospitals, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lifting the Paperweight: Healthcare in the Cloud?

  
  VitalOne Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 131
  States have struggled with it. Hospitals pray their patients won’t fall over it. Software makers are grinning over it, like the Cheshire Cat. The massive rock paperweight that keeps our medical records in an ever-growing stack is fossilizing. Fast. As a result, congress, President Obama and insurance providers are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Today’s HSA = Healthcare Suicide Act?

  
  VitalOne Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 131
  A newly-released survey of human resources professionals suggests that HSAs (or Healthcare Savings Accounts / Flexible Spending Accounts) need a strong legislative antibiotic to ward off a growing epidemic of consumers who are enrolling in higher deductible health care plans in a flat, uncertain economy. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Healthcare Reform: Do we receive the best value?

  
  Zane Safrit — Authority: 128
  Ok. Today we still measure value in dollars. What will we have to pay in 2010 to receive the same value from our health insurance premiums? According to this article in BusinessWeek , to receive the same quality of care in 2010.. Businesses will pay 7% more Their employees will pay 10% more. By businesses ...
  3 weeks ago

• Reducing Healthcare Costs through Medical Negotiation

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  This year an estimated 1.5 million Americans will declare bankruptcy, and a study from the American Journal of Medicine suggests that more than 60 percent of people who go bankrupt are actually capsized by medical bills. Most of these medical debtors are well educated, own homes, and have middle-class occupations; ...
  3 weeks ago

• Health system reform is much bigger than health insurance reform

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 118
  By Mike DalyRetired CEO Baystate Health System If you find what is going on in Washington these days confusing, join the crowd. Everything I read refers to reform differently depending on the day. Many news articles describe efforts in Washington as health insurance reform but what lawmakers are really grappling ...
  4 weeks ago

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