Patient Care, Customer Service, and a Tail of Two Doctors’ Offices
(Posted on 9/3/2010 4:01:22 PM)
Musings Blog: With all the buzz about health reform and change and rewarding quality and patient-centered care, it’s easy to lose sight of the most essential aspect of any business that deals with people: solid customer service. More
Who Will Bear the Real Cost of Health Care Reform?
(Posted on 8/27/2010 12:40:39 PM)
| | Musings Blog: There is general consensus among virtually everyone that the U.S. health care system was and remains in need of transformation. The concern that remains, however, is can reform as passed truly reduce the cost of health care over the long term? |
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Payment Reform Is a Start
(Posted on 8/5/2010 2:04:54 PM)
| | Musings Blog: For us to achieve real health care reform several fundamentals need to be addressed. |
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What Do ACOs Mean for Physician Compensation Models?
(Posted on 7/29/2010 4:31:31 PM)
| | Musings Blog: Shannon Lorbiecki discusses various physician payment models of the past, and the dilemma in determining how they will be compensated in the future to meet the ACO incentives. |
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ACOs Defined, but Many Questions Remain
(Posted on 7/21/2010 5:48:17 PM)
| | Musings Blog: The definition of an ACO is understandable; however, how they’ll operate is an elusive concept. It’s difficult to comprehend how different providers with their own missions, visions, and leadership teams will come together to function as a single unified structure without walls. |
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What Does “Standard of Care” Mean for Physicians, Nurses, and Hospitals?
(Posted on 7/12/2010 11:56:39 AM)
| | Musings Blog: “Standard of care” has generally meant that care delivered is consistent with the highest quality of care available in the community. However recent research from the Dartmouth Atlas suggests a wide geographic variation in defining the standard. |
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Health Reform Offers Little Financial Incentive for Employers
(Posted on 6/28/2010 1:16:47 PM)
| | Musings Blog: The question I hear most often from clients and audiences, after explaining the penalties for some employers under health reform, is, “Why would my company continue offering health care coverage?” They are not alone in asking this question. |
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Embracing Health Care Reform
(Posted on 6/18/2010 1:25:29 PM)
| | Musings Blog: The LarsonAllen health care group recently spent several days together focusing on the issues, effects, and implications of health care reform. |
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Hospital-Physician Relationships: Clinical Co-management Agreements
(Posted on 6/3/2010 9:55:35 AM)
| | Musings Blog: While there has been a dramatic increase in the proportion of physicians in hospital employment over the past several years, other partnership models are becoming popular. One of them is the co-management arrangement. |
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Hospital-Physician Relationships: Impact of Health Reform on Physician Employment
(Posted on 5/27/2010 12:51:32 PM)
| | Musings blog: There is general agreement that health care reform (driven by federal action and trends that were already going on) means providers need to collaborate at a level not mandated before. |
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Payment Reform Strategies Providers Must Consider
(Posted on 5/24/2010 1:50:30 PM)
| | Musings Blog: John Richter blogs about the things we currently know about payment reform and what providers must consider going forward. |
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Health Care Reform Keeps Evolving for Hospitals
(Posted on 5/3/2010 2:30:37 PM)
| | Musings Blog: The sweeping health care reform legislation is explained in literally thousands of pages. |
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Learning to Share: Improving Performance and Reimbursement
(Posted on 4/27/2010 1:05:37 PM)
| | Musings Blog: The hottest topic at most health care conferences is how to achieve quality and performance improvements to assure appropriate reimbursement. |
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Health Care Reform: Consider Care Coordination
(Posted on 4/16/2010 2:14:05 PM)
| | Musings Blog: I have been reading a lot of the articles, blogs, and summaries describing the health care reform legislation. One key issue attracting attention is the high cost of patient readmissions. |
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The Heavy Load of Health Care Reform for Critical Access Hospitals
(Posted on 4/9/2010 12:48:54 PM)
| | Musings Blog: Rob Schile blogs that the capital demands of health care reform could have huge implicaions for rural providers. |
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Capitalistic Spirit Will Make Us Stronger Over the Long Run
(Posted on 4/2/2010 11:31:27 AM)
| | Musings Blog: Rob Schile blogs that over the course of the last week, several large companies have disclosed that they will be taking a one time reduction in earnings as a result of the health care reform law. As one would expect with such a sensitive and volatile topic, the reaction to these announcements has been nothing less than dramatic. |
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The Wrangling Continues, but Health Care Providers Must Move Forward
(Posted on 3/25/2010 3:56:20 PM)
| | Amidst all the remaining uncertainty, one thing we can be sure about is the health care reform law will create dramatic changes to the industry as we currently know it. Providers should look to the future and start educating themselves, preparing a plan, and implanting change within their organizations. |
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The Debate Over Health Care Reform ... Or Is It?
(Posted on 3/19/2010 12:17:32 PM)
| | Musings Blog: Like many of you, I have watched the events in our nation’s
capitol unfold this week with intrigue, wonderment, and disappointment. On the surface it would appear as if the debate over reform has reached its
pinnacle, and is only seconds away from exploding into what the vast majority of
Americans are in agreement is needed—a reformed health care system. |
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The Debate Over Health Care Reform ... Or Is It?
(Posted on 3/18/2010 1:32:00 PM)
| | Musings Blog: Like many of you, I have watched the events in our nation’s capitol unfold this week with intrigue, wonderment, and disappointment. Given the magnitude of what is at stake for every American, the legislation that is ultimately passed should be representative of bi-partisan agreement and support. |
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Gold Standard: Analyzing Iowa’s Top Performing Hospitals
(Posted on 3/15/2010 3:19:20 PM)
| | Regardless of your beliefs about variation in health care costs and quality, learning about how Iowa hospitals are able to achieve "Gold Standard" performance might move us further toward reducing costs and improving quality. |
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