healthcare costs
Tag details
Welcome to the 'healthcare costs' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'healthcare costs'.
Latest blogosphere posts tagged “healthcare costs”
-
Hospital board members need to value quality care
Action For Better Healthcare —
Authority: 116
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 ...5 days ago -
Government should not act like a private insurance company
Action For Better Healthcare —
Authority: 116
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, ...6 days ago -
Lifting the Paperweight: Healthcare in the Cloud?
VitalOne Health Insurance Blog —
Authority: 135
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 ...6 days ago -
Today’s HSA = Healthcare Suicide Act?
VitalOne Health Insurance Blog —
Authority: 135
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. ...1 week 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 ...1 week ago -
Reducing Healthcare Costs through Medical Negotiation
Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com —
Authority: 158
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; ...1 week ago -
Health system reform is much bigger than health insurance reform
Action For Better Healthcare —
Authority: 116
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 ...1 week ago -
Fine Line Between Rationing And Appropriate Healthcare
VitalOne Health Insurance Blog —
Authority: 135
Rationing: It’s a dirty word. Some politicians and activists warn of the dangers of a public option that would have the government ration out health care, and point to Europe as a cautionary tale; others claim that care is already being rationed indirectly by a patient’s health insurance plan . Either way, the ...1 week ago -
Breast cancer scare an insurance nightmare
Paging Dr. Gupta —
Authority: 462
By Ashley J. WennersHerron CNN Medical News Intern Breast cancer runs in my family; even my dad had it. I routinely do self-checks, always terrified that Ill find some indication of my worst nightmare. Two weeks ago, I did. I found a lump the size of a pea buried in the skin between my right breast and my armpit. I ...1 week ago -
4 ways to get the most out of benefits meetings
HRMorning.com —
Authority: 138
There are proven ways to make any meeting — whether it’s about open enrollment or managing healthcare costs — more effective. 1. Arrive early Arriving 10 minutes early for a presentation allows you to arrange the room to your liking. The extra time also lets you check any equipment or displays you’ll ...1 week ago -
Will Special Ambulances for Morbidly Obese Patients Lead to Less Affordable Health Insurance?
VitalOne Health Insurance Blog —
Authority: 135
Obesity has become an epidemic in America, and has been blamed for a significant percentage of rising healthcare costs. In the past, ambulances have had to improvise when transporting morbidly obese patients over 500 pounds to the hospital, and companies have eaten the cost. Now, with an increasingly obese population, ...1 week ago -
What we can learn from veterans hospitals
Action For Better Healthcare —
Authority: 116
By Kester FreemanRetired CEO, Palmetto Health Despite what some people say, veterans hospitals are not all bad. In fact, as an article in The Wall Street Journal today points out, when it comes to going digital, veterans hospitals lead the way. The system serves more than 7 million patients at 153 ...2 weeks ago -
From this a.m.’s China Daily: “US healthcare system ‘wastes’ $850b a year
InvestmentWatch —
Authority: 449
(China Daily) Updated: 2009-10-27 10:19 …..WASHINGTON: The US healthcare system is just as wasteful as President Barack Obama says it is, and proposed reforms could be paid for by fixing some of the most obvious inefficiencies, preventing mistakes and fighting fraud, according to a Thomson Reuters report released ...2 weeks ago -
Big bonuses and bigger deficits are driving new waves of populist anger
DailyFinance —
Authority: 793
Filed under: Economy As reports about record payouts for Wall Street and record deficits trade off on the front page, millions of Americans are wondering whats going on with their economy and their political system. Many of the nearly 200 reader comments made in response to my recent piece, Middle class squeeze: ...2 weeks ago -
Anxiety and What to Do About It
Wish Everyone Good Health. —
Authority: 464
Anxiety Disorders DefinedThere are several subgroups of Anxiety Disorders, with different causes and treatement. Anxiety disorders are a serious social and financial concern to American business, since they cost the country more than $42 billion a year in healthcare costs and lost productivity, according to “The ...2 weeks ago -
The Positive and Negatives for Tort Reform
American Conservative Daily —
Authority: 501
Tort reform is a subject that has been in the news in recent days. Part of the discussion has been centered on the content of the current efforts to establish legislation for healthcare reform. While this aspect may not make it into the final legislation that is passed it is a topic which seems to be one at the ...2 weeks ago -
Jacob Hacker Responds to Our Public Plan Deception Video
Horse Racing Tips and Horse Racing Results —
Authority: 158
Way back on May 20 I produced and posted a video which I called “ The Public Plan Deception “. The purpose of which was to expose how key liberals had admitted that the public option was really a back door way to move the nation towards a single payer system. One in which the government provides reimbursement for ...2 weeks ago -
What Obama is not saying about Massachusetts healthcare reform
Action For Better Healthcare —
Authority: 116
By Ed Howe Retired president and CEO, Aurora Health Care President Obama is in Massachusetts today, but he is not talking about what the state has done in terms of healthcare reform. Wonder why? Massachusetts is one of only two states in the U.S. that has implemented its own universal healthcare program similar to ...2 weeks ago -
Retired healthcare CEOs are talking – and you can, too!
Action For Better Healthcare —
Authority: 116
By Kester FreemanRetired CEO, Palmetto Health If this is your first time visiting our blog, welcome! We look forward to you visiting often and becoming involved in the discussions here. Our blog team is comprised of a group of six talented guys who have spent decades in the healthcare industry. We are all former ...2 weeks ago -
When hospitals compete, lives are saved and costs are controlled
Action For Better Healthcare —
Authority: 116
By Ed Howe Retired president and CEO, Aurora Health Care If you have wondered about the quality of care at U.S. hospitals and how we might be able to make improvements when it comes to saving lives and saving money, here is your answer. Today it was announced that Premier healthcare alliance’s QUEST initiative ...3 weeks ago
