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" Strike Two " : A Pediatrician ' s " Dance " with Alan Levine/Ballad Health - And WHY We Need Federal Medical Whistle-blower Protection For ALL Healthcare " Workers " NOW
This is the story of how government failed me as a Pediatrician - for the second time.  The saddest thing of all is that there is a " Strike Three " .  Nobody cares about Pediatrics - or Pediatricians.  They haven ' t for a very long time.  This is a long post.  Don ' t whine about it.  Read it. CARE that somebody trying to stand up for your children lived it - and not for the first time.Twenty-two years ago, the morally-bankrupt executives of my now fiscally-bankrupt hometown hospital (in Asheboro, North Carolina) railroaded me out of town . . . after I intervened in a nursery case being...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - May 12, 2020 Category: American Health Tags: Alan Levine Ballad Health Cooperative Agreement COPA ETSU Medical Whistle-blower Pediatric Hospitalist Ralph Northam Randolph Hospital Tennessee Department of Health Virginia Department of Health Source Type: blogs

As Open Enrollment Nears, A Health Affairs Conversation With Alan Weil
In a new Health Affairs Conversations podcast, Alan Weil, the executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy, discusses the impending opening of the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplaces. In a wide-ranging discussion with me, Weil also talks about Medicaid, federal-state health policy dynamics, and how our health care system might evolve in coming years. For more from Alan, check out his many contributions to Health Affairs (most recently "Promoting Cooperative Federalism Through State Shared Savings" in our August issue) and his blog "Once In A Weil." This is the third in a series of pod...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 24, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Chris Fleming Tags: Coverage Health Reform Insurance Medicaid Podcast Policy Politics Spending States Source Type: blogs

Delaying the Individual Mandate Will Delay Political Backlash until after the Election
Alan Reynolds Republican Senators Ted Cruz (TX) and Mike Lee (UT) and a few others have proposed that all Obamacare funding be cut off by a legislative “rider,” ostensibly forbidding funding of the 2010 law. They argued that public opinion polls trump mere laws enacted by Congress and vetted by the Supreme Court–an idea that sounds more like populism than conservatism. Even if such “defunding” could have magically attracted the 67 Senate votes needed to override a veto, it would not have undone the mandate to buy insurance, premium subsidies through refundable tax credits, planned cuts in payments to Me...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 27, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

We’d Be In The Dark Without AHRQ
Here at Health Affairs we take the policy relevance of our work very seriously. As the leading health policy journal in the country, with the highest impact factor in our field, we work assiduously to find, edit, and publish the best scholarship that helps policymakers do their job. When we heard about threats to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) future, we set out to understand how the loss of AHRQ would affect the nation’s understanding of critical health policy issues. The results caused us great concern. While AHRQ contributes in many ways, we focused our analysis on the major data sources tha...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - October 15, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Alan Weil Tags: Health Professionals Once in a Weil Quality AHRQ Alan Weil health policy research policymakers Surveys Source Type: blogs

Simon Johnson Claims the Warren Health Plan is a Gift to U.S. Businesses
Alan ReynoldsAn advisor to the Warren campaign,Simon Johnson of MIT, has written an impressively fact-freeWall Street Journalarticle claiming Senator Warren's "remedy for health care costs" would be a wonderful gift to American businesses."Americans currently spend nearly 18% of gross domestic product on healthcare. . . and a great deal of this burden falls directly on companies." He claims "this dead weight gets heavier each year" and "companies cannot by themselves easily constrain health-insurance premiums." The impression is that businesses shoulder a large and rising share of total spending on health care. And unlike ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 2, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – May 7, 2023 – Less than 1% of all medical claims include an ICD-10 Z code, 78% of consumers say virtual health is important when considering health plans, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. News CMS has opened the Hardship Exception application period for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) that participated in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program in 2022. Hospitals may be exempt from...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Alan Bugos Alexander Group Amazon Amazon Web Services CAHs Carenet Health CarePort Connect CGI CharmHealth CMS Consensus Cloud Solutions Controlled Medications CrunchBase DAS Health DEA eClinicalWorks eCW Source Type: blogs

Technologies Change Health Insurance: The Most Innovative Ventures
The accumulation of medical data enables health insurance companies to move from the 100-year-old concept of reactive care to preventive medicine. The future points to simple, fast and highly personalized insurance plans based on information from the healthcare system and data from health sensors, wearables, and trackers. Here is the changing health insurance scene and its most innovative solutions! Health insurance systems are unsustainable partly due to costly chronic diseases According to OECD predictions, exceeding budgets on health spending remains an issue for OECD countries. Maintaining today’s healthcare systems...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 31, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design big data chronic illness digital digital health gc3 health data health insurance healthcare data technology trackers wearables Source Type: blogs

Let ' s Talk About Hospitals And Rural Healthcare (Particularly Mother-Baby Care): My Letter To The NC Government Commission/NC State Treasurer In Support Of Randolph County ' s Application For A Loan To Save Randolph Health
Author ' s Note:  The lawyers have a saying, " Res Ipsa Loquitur " " .  Translated from Latin, it means, " The thing speaks for itself " .  This is the text of the letter I sent to theNC Local Government Commission (embellished with a few links and additional comments in red) . . .in support of the state of North Carolina granting a loan to Randolph County (via the NC Rural Healthcare Stabilization Act) . . . for purposes of assisting in the " rescue " of Asheboro ' s Randolph Health - in a bankruptcy Court-approved buy-out of Randolph ' s assets by American Healthcare Systems, LLC.On May 4th, afte...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - May 7, 2021 Category: American Health Tags: Asheboro Atrium Health Bankruptcy Cone Health Duke Lifepoint LGC Medical Whistle-blower Mother-Baby Care NC Rural Heatlh NCDHHS Non-profit Randolph Health UNC Health Wake Forest Baptist Source Type: blogs

ACOs, Bundled Payment Lead Health Affairs Blog August Most-Read List
Posts on payment and delivery reform head the Health Affairs Blog top-fifteen list for August. Suzanne Delbanco and David Lansky’s post on accountable care organizations was the most-read post, followed by Tom Williams and Jill Yegian’s post on bundled payment, written in response to an article published in the August issue of Health Affairs. Next is Health Affairs’ Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil’s post on the five engagements that will define the future of health, drawn from his keynote presentation at the 2014 Colorado Health Symposium. This is followed by Rosemarie Day and coauthors’ post on the private health insu...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 12, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Tracy Gnadinger Tags: All Categories Blog Health Care Delivery Health Reform Insurance Payment Quality Source Type: blogs

It Looks Like The Human Services Minister Has Been A Little Less Than Frank About Medicare Number Leaks Onto The Dark Web!
This appeared last week:11:00pm, Nov 21, 2017 Updated: 11:09pm, Nov 21Revealed: Alan Tudge ’s department knew of Medicare breach prior to bombshell reportExclusiveJohn Power The Department of Human Services flagged the illegal sale of Medicare details on the dark web almost a fortnight before the illicit trade was exposed in a bombshell media report, The New Daily can exclusively reveal .Internal emails, obtained under freedom of information laws, reveal that department officials discussed the security issue as early as June 22 – nearly two weeks before revelations that Medicare numbers were being sold online.On July 4...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - December 1, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs

The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
July 14, 2022 Edition-----The biggest news this week was the assassination of the ex-PM of Japan – Shinzo Abe – who was a good friend to OZ incidentally.In the US we have had a wind-up to a busy summit season – NATO etc – and the ongoing war in Ukraine which is becoming a deepening, protracted and horrible situation which it seems hard to resolve sadly.In the UK Boris is out but not gone and the battle for the succession is off and rolling.In OZ we have Albo back and we need to work out what to mitigate these various natural disasters and actually get on with it!!!! The response has been pathetic so far I reckon!--...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 14, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

The Impact of Caronia Case: What Happens Next?
Last month, in a landmark ruling, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in United States v. Caronia, vacated the criminal conviction of a pharmaceutical sales representative who was found guilty of conspiracy to introduce a misbranded drug, under the Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act (FDCA), because he spoke about off-label uses of a particular drug.  The court held “that the government cannot prosecute pharmaceutical manufacturers and their representatives under the FDCA for speech promoting the lawful, off-label use of an FDA-approved drug.”  In a client alert written by the law firm Arnold & P...
Source: Policy and Medicine - January 17, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

Simpson-Bowles and Daschle-Frist-Domenici: Unveil Plans for Reducing Healthcare Spending
In addition to the President’s FY 2014 we previously reported on, former Fiscal Commission heads, Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, unveiled an updated deficit reduction plan – building on a framework released in February 2013 – including $2.5 trillion in savings from spending cuts and revenue increases, of which $585 billion comes from healthcare reductions and reforms over the next 10 years.  Highlights from this plan, courtesy of Thorn Run Partners include:  Delivery System and Payment Reforms (-$60B/10): Among other recommendations, includes the cost of replacing the SGR with a payment freeze coupled with a s...
Source: Policy and Medicine - April 29, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

Making Sense Of Geographic Variations In Health Care: The New IOM Report
Since 1973, when Jack Wennberg published his first paper describing geographic variations in health care, researchers have argued about both the magnitude and the causes of variation. The argument gained greater policy relevance as U.S. health care spending reached 18 percent of GDP and as evidence mounted, largely from researchers at Dartmouth, that higher spending regions were failing to achieve better outcomes. The possibility of substantial savings not only helped to motivate reform but also raised the stakes in what had been largely an academic argument. Some began to raise questions about the Dartmouth research. T...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - July 24, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Elliott Fisher Tags: All Categories Health Care Costs Hospitals Insurance Medicare Payment Physicians Policy Quality Spending Source Type: blogs