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Physicians, Health Systems and the Drive For Market Dominance2 comments

Brian Klepper wrote 5 hours ago: Brian Klepper Posted 5/23/13 on Medscape Connect’s Care & Cost Blog Several physicians hav … more →

Tags: Innovation, market dynamics, Medical Management, physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics, Quality, reform, Brian Klepper

Whether Health Insurance Premium Is Tax Deductible Or Not?

taxpremium wrote 1 week ago: Health care insurance pertaining to senior citizens grow older 65 as well as the handicapped will ge … more →

Tags: Medicare, Health Insurance

Using Strong Carrots and Sticks To Drive Health Care That Works

Brian Klepper wrote 1 week ago: Brian Klepper Posted 5/09/13 on Medscape Connect’s Care & Cost Blog On a recent call with … more →

Tags: Brian Klepper, HC Approaches That Work, Onsite Clinics, Primary Care, AMA, incentives, Jerry Reeves

Using Strong Carrots and Sticks To Drive Health Care That Works2 comments

Brian Klepper wrote 2 weeks ago: Brian Klepper Posted 5/09/13 on Medscape Connect’s Care & Cost Blog On a recent call with … more →

Tags: Benefits, Conflicts of Interest, Innovation, market dynamics, Medical Management, Policy/Law/Regulation, Quality, Brian Klepper, Centers of Excellence

Why Aren't Primary Care Physicians More Ticked off about the RUC? An Interview with Brian Klepper2 comments

Brian Klepper wrote 3 weeks ago: Brandon Glenn Published 4/30/13 in Medical Economics If primary care physicians have a bigger enemy … more →

Tags: Brian Klepper, Analytics, Policy/Law/Regulation, market dynamics, Medical Management, physicians, Politics, Primary Care, AMA

Economic Downturn, Not Health System Reform, Responsible For Decrease In Health Care Cost Trend

Cynthia Marcotte Stamer wrote 1 month ago: Bad economic times, and not health care reform, account for the record slowdown in U.S. health care … more →

Tags: Health Care, Health Plans, Employee Benefits, health-care reform, Affordable Health Care for America Act, Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Patient Empowerment, Health Care Costs, Affordable Care Act.

How Physician Practices Can Prepare for a Health Care Marketplace6 comments

Brian Klepper wrote 1 month ago: Brian Klepper Posted 4/21/13 on Medscape Connect’s Care and Cost Blog What is the path forward … more →

Tags: Analytics, Brian Klepper, Conflicts of Interest, Innovation, market dynamics, Medical Management, physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics

South Africa Rolls Out New HIV Treatment

ohhnoo2150 wrote 1 month ago: South Africa Rolls Out New HIV Treatment I am not gonna lie, I have no idea how much it costs for HI … more →

Tags: General Health, health, drugs, HIV

Seriously Testing The ACO Waters2 comments

Brian Klepper wrote 1 month ago: Brian Klepper Published April 2013 in Accountable Care News If necessity is the mother of invention, … more →

Tags: Analytics, Conflicts of Interest, Innovation, Medical Management, Politics, Quality, reform, Accountable Care Organizations, Brian Klepper

When Employers Get Serious About Managing Health Care Risk2 comments

Brian Klepper wrote 1 month ago: Brian Klepper Posted 4/07/13 on Medscape Connect’s Care & Cost Blog Last week I visited with Gar … more →

Tags: Brian Klepper, consumerism, HC Approaches That Work, health-care reform, Heatlh Care Excess, effective programming, Gary Rost, Savannah Business Group

When Employers Get Serious About Managing Health Care Risk5 comments

Brian Klepper wrote 1 month ago: Brian Klepper Posted 4/07/13 on Medscape Connect’s Care & Cost Blog Last week I visited wi … more →

Tags: Benefits, Brian Klepper, consumerism, Innovation, market dynamics, Medical Management, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics, Quality

Steven Brill on Health Care Pricing and Profit3 comments

Einar Joe Bohlin wrote 1 month ago: Steven Brill is the author of the article reviewed in this post, the March 4, 2013 TIME magazine Spe … more →

Tags: Other Reviews, Health Care, health-care reform, Time magazine, Steven Brill

International Comparison -- sky high cost

qualityhealthcareplease wrote 1 month ago: The Washington Post has a couple of great articles about the cost of health care in which the US is … more →

Tags: High Cost of Care, Restructuring Health Care, Health Care, cost of care, international comparison

Why Only Business Can Save America From Health Care

Brian Klepper wrote 1 month ago: Brian Klepper Posted 3/24/13 on Medscape Connect’s Care and Cost Blog For a large and growing number … more →

Tags: Brian Klepper, HC Approaches That Work, health-care reform, Influence, Lobbying

Why Only Business Can Save America From Health Care5 comments

Brian Klepper wrote 1 month ago: Brian Klepper Posted 3/24/13 on Medscape Connect’s Care and Cost Blog For a large and growing … more →

Tags: Analytics, Benefits, Conflicts of Interest, market dynamics, Medical Management, physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics, Quality

The Reality of Health Care Cost

Brian Klepper wrote 2 months ago: Brian Klepper This beautifully written letter was forwarded after an interview with me on health car … more →

Tags: Benefits, Brian Klepper, consumerism, market dynamics, Policy/Law/Regulation, Insurance, self-payment, Universal Coverage

Why EHRs Really Haven’t Made Us Healthier: A Response To Glen Tullman3 comments

Brian Klepper wrote 2 months ago: Brian Klepper Recently-fired Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman waxed progressive in a self-promotional For … more →

Tags: Analytics, Brian Klepper, Health IT, market dynamics, Medical Management, physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics, Quality

Imaging-biomarkers – a new name for Imaging-based tissue characterization1 comment

Dror Nir wrote 2 months ago: For everyone who is skeptical about the future role of imaging-based tissue chracterisation in the m … more →

Tags: imaging, Imaging guided diagnostic, Imaging guided therapy, Medical Imaging, bio markers, Biomarkers, Cancer, cost efficient cancer diagnosis, cost efficient cancer treatment

Don't miss the gorilla!

gutsandgrowth wrote 2 months ago: A recent narrative on improving value in health care (NEJM 2013; 368: 959-62) made use of a few psyc … more →

Tags: health economics


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