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The Business of Health Care. BUSINESS OF HEALTH CARE. Spring 2014. Al Lewis and Vik Khanna. e-book edition. # LIGHTHOUSE. Diagnosis Is Not Therapy. By Alan Spiro, MD. We all know that patient the one we may dismissively label noncompliant. The person with diabetes whose HA1C is consistently above normal limits the one who swears, when confronted with the numbers (yet again) he’ll start eating right and using his insulin as prescribed. Patients are people before they are patients. We know that when people...
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The Business of Health Care. BUSINESS OF HEALTH CARE. Spring 2014. Al Lewis and Vik Khanna. e-book edition. # LIGHTHOUSE. Stop the War on the Emergency Room! Fix the System Failure). There’s a war being waged on one of America’s most revered institutions, the Emergency Room. The ER, or Emergency Department (ED for the sake of this post) has been the subject of at least a dozen primetime TV shows. What’s not to love about a place where both Doogie Houser and George Clooney worked? Elsewhere, in Pontiac Mi...
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Sparky's Policy Pub. August 31, 2016. Jul 11, 2015. Middot; Leave a Comment. The cover story of this coming week’s edition of Modern Healthcare. Subscription required) focuses on end-of-life directives. The now infamous death panels phenomenon that became coupled with fears over the Independent Payment Advisory Board. IPAB) and rationing of knee and hip replacement procedures for Medicare recipients. I first wrote about this topic. In November of 2012. CMS announced last week. That its proposed 2016 Medi...
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National Healthcare Exenditures – Sparky's Policy Pub
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Sparky's Policy Pub. August 31, 2016. Jul 28, 2015. National Health Expenditures Data Released. Middot; Leave a Comment. According to a report released today in. By the CMS Office of the Actuary. Healthcare spending growth is projected to average 5.8% over the period 2014 through 2024. In the three decades leading up to 2008 the average annual growth rate was 9%. Here are some highlights from the CMS press release:. While per capita Medicaid spending is projected to have decreased by 0.8 percent in 2...
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Sparky's Policy Pub. August 31, 2016. Jul 28, 2015. National Health Expenditures Data Released. Middot; Leave a Comment. According to a report released today in. By the CMS Office of the Actuary. Healthcare spending growth is projected to average 5.8% over the period 2014 through 2024. In the three decades leading up to 2008 the average annual growth rate was 9%. Here are some highlights from the CMS press release:. While per capita Medicaid spending is projected to have decreased by 0.8 percent in 2...
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National Healthcare Spending – Sparky's Policy Pub
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Sparky's Policy Pub. August 31, 2016. Jul 28, 2015. National Health Expenditures Data Released. Middot; Leave a Comment. According to a report released today in. By the CMS Office of the Actuary. Healthcare spending growth is projected to average 5.8% over the period 2014 through 2024. In the three decades leading up to 2008 the average annual growth rate was 9%. Here are some highlights from the CMS press release:. While per capita Medicaid spending is projected to have decreased by 0.8 percent in 2...
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Sparky's Policy Pub. August 31, 2016. Jul 10, 2015. Of Flags & Windmills. Middot; Leave a Comment. Anyway, I haven’t decided yet whether to still focus only on healthcare policy or expand the Pub’s spectrum to include general policy interests that appeal to a much broader audience. If anyone is still out there reading, perhaps you can give me some feedback. I thought I might start back by dipping my toe in the water with a timely, non-healthcare policy issue. . With my twelve year-old son. But what I hav...
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Sparky's Policy Pub. August 31, 2016. Jul 13, 2013. ACOs, Innovation and Edison. Middot; Leave a Comment. That it will double to $50 billion annually over the next five years the value of contracts it has with doctors and hospitals based on quality and outcome measures. United is currently paying over $20 billion annually to doctors, hospitals and ancillary care providers under contractual arrangements based on value produced (i.e., quality outcomes over cost). Now, the glass-half-empty folks in healthca...
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National Health Expenditures Data Released – Sparky's Policy Pub
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Sparky's Policy Pub. August 31, 2016. Jul 28, 2015. National Health Expenditures Data Released. Middot; Leave a Comment. According to a report released today in. By the CMS Office of the Actuary. Healthcare spending growth is projected to average 5.8% over the period 2014 through 2024. In the three decades leading up to 2008 the average annual growth rate was 9%. Here are some highlights from the CMS press release:. While per capita Medicaid spending is projected to have decreased by 0.8 percent in 2...
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Healthcare Policy – Sparky's Policy Pub
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Sparky's Policy Pub. August 31, 2016. May 24, 2016. What Hospitals Need to Understand About Housing. Middot; Leave a Comment. There was a post in today’s. See links at the end of this post) with some helpful insights on the importance of affordable housing as a key element of being able promote and sustain healthy aging. I have written rather extensively over the years in this space on this topic, and I have long been an advocate for. Affordable Housing Plus Services. But this article reminded me again h...
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