11.29.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:24 am by heaven
Excerpt: "Fear not, my HR brothers and sisters. Here are my Cliff notes for the top seven strategies to drop benefit costs without decreasing coverage. There's still time to get these in for 2008." (Workforce Management)
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Excerpt: "More health insurers have adopted New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's doctor ranking model, thereby agreeing to fully disclose to consumers, physicians and plan sponsors the cost and quality metrics they use to rank doctors." (Workforce Management)
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Excerpt: "CMS this week outlined its long-awaited value-based purchasing program (VBP) proposal that would reduce diagnostic-related group (DRG) payments for Medicare patients, but give hospitals a chance to earn the money back through stellar performance or dramatic improvement. . . . Karen Linscott, acting CEO of The Leapfrog Group, said in a statement. 'Now that CMS' plan for value-based purchasing has been made public, the public and private sector can leverage their combined purchasing power to cure the toxic payment system by implementing payment policies that are based on higher quality rather than volume.'" (HealthLeaders Media)
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11.21.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 7:43 pm by heaven
Excerpt: "In Britain, some doctors appear to be setting a body mass index of 30 -- considered obese in Britain and the United States -- as an informal cutoff point for elective surgery. In the U.S. there are no absolute limits, but American doctors seem to be more lenient. One U.S. orthopedic surgeon suggested that not until a patient has a body mass index of 40 -- a category considered 'morbidly obese' -- would surgeons have serious problems." (AP via Yahoo! News)
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11.19.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:21 am by heaven
34 pages. Excerpt: "Managed care executives are inundated almost daily with information, which they need to read and process to keep up with the rapid changes taking place in health care. This supplement is based on a series of 10 podcasts that were conducted in late 2006 and the first half of 2007 to give health care professionals an opportunity to learn about new developments in managed care. The host for the series was Ian Morrison,PhD, an internationally known author, consultant, and futurist specializing in long-term forecasting and planning. Each podcast consisted of a discussion between Morrison and an expert on an issue important to the business and bottom line of managed care organizations." (Managed Care Magazine)
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