11:00 a.m., Thu. - Employers this year increasingly shifted the cost of health coverage to their workers, even as total premiums rose only slightly, according to a new report by the Kaiser Family Foundation. ... FULL STORY
12:01 a.m., Thu. - About 3.4 million workers are employed by roughly 1 million small businesses that are likely to take advantage of a new healthcare premium tax credit by 2013, according to a... ... FULL STORY
A key trait of effective executives is to ask the right questions of your team. I have a recent example related to revenue cycle where taking a “deeper dive” into the operations proved beneficial.
This is the second installment for 2010 of the Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Opinion Leaders Survey. More survey results can be found at the Commonwealth Fund's Web site, commonwealthfund.org.
The Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Opinion Leaders Survey, conducted by Harris Interactive, is an online poll designed to highlight perspectives on the most timely health-policy issues from a...
One can imagine the following spoken from the vantage point of our dear leaders in Washington: Those greedy insurance companies. There is no reason why the government should not mandate that 85% of... ... FULL STORY
Now that we have $1.1 billion for comparative-effectiveness studies, it is time we investigated the cost and quality of life benefits of lifestyle changes. For example, what is a more effective and... ... FULL STORY
Healthcare providers are adopting information technology to improve care and potentially qualify for economic stimulus funding. Below are winners of our 2010 IT Case Study Contest (left) and IT case studies from other contest participants.
The Joint Commission is on a confused track. Mark Chassin's study of his organization's quality process measures was interesting to those of us who find “process” measures typically... ... FULL STORY
State licensing authorities might question whether recovery audit contractors' determining whether particular services are medically necessary is in fact “practicing medicine.” ... FULL STORY
The government, the media and insurance companies keep telling hospitals and doctors that they over-order and over-prescribe, and that is one big factor in the ever-upward march of healthcare costs. ... FULL STORY
Italy's health minister traveled to Sicily to apologize to a woman whose delivery of a son was botched when her two doctors got into a fistfight in the operating room. ... FULL STORY
For the second consecutive year, President Barack Obama was voted No. 1 in this year's 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare competition. Other leaders in his administration and prominent members of Congress are also high on the ranking, as the rollout of healthcare reform continues to dominate the dialogue. The vast majority of the leaders on the list, however, exert their industry influence from outside of Washington. Read more about them.
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