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At University of Miami, Faculty Without Confidence in their Hired Managers Afraid to Identify Themselves
The University of Miami has provided some vivid examples of the contrast between the power and privileges of the leaders of large health care organizations and the subservient role of faculty and staff. Background Back in 2006, we noted that while the University of Miami was paying its janitorial support staff less than seven dollars an hour, and supplying them with no health insurance, its President, Donna Shalala, was living in a 9000 square foot official mansion, with staff hired to make her bed.  While Ms Shalala did not seem very perturbed about the living conditions of the lowliest University staffers, as a...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 9, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: executive life style mission-hostile management medical schools Donna Shalala free speech University of Miami anechoic effect Source Type: blogs

The Morning Flap: February 22, 2013
Sequestration from Wall Street Journal These are my news headlines for February 21st through February 22nd: With Axelrod At NBC News, The Marriage Of Media And Politics Becomes Complete – What’s more, Team Obama has declared it has no intention of dismantling its campaign apparatus post re-election. Put Axelrod in the catbird seat at a news outlet and the “narrative” continues. Combine that with Team Obama’s masterful manipulation of journalists, its command of social media, and an ugly picture emerges of a press indistinguishable from the political establishment.This has happened in banana r...
Source: FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog - February 22, 2013 Category: Dentists Authors: Flap Tags: Pinboard Links The Morning Flap Charles Krauthammer David Axelrod Delicious Links Democrats Gallup GOP Harry Reid Healthcare immigration Karl Rove Media Medicare MSM NBC Nevada Obamacare Online Politics Peggy Noonan Source Type: blogs

Liberty Mutual: A Blow to Health Care Transparency
By CHARLES ORNSTEIN The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow this week to nascent efforts to track the quality and cost of health care, ruling that a 1974 law precludes states from requiring that every health care claim involving their residents be submitted to a massive database. The arguments were arcane, but the effect is clear: We’re a long way off from having a true picture of the country’s health care spending, especially differences in the way hospitals treat patients and doctors practice medicine. It also means that, for the time being at least, we’ll remain heavily reliant on data being released by Medicare, the ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: Featured THCBist Charles Ornstein Source Type: blogs

Misdiagnosis: Obamacare Tried to Fix the Wrong Things and Prescribed the Wrong Treatments
By CHARLES SILVER and DAVID A.HYMAN Today THCB is happy to publish a piece reflecting the learnings from Charles Silver and David Hyman’s forthcoming book Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much For Health Care, shortly to be published by the libertarian leaning Cato Institute. In subsequent weeks we’ll feature commentary from the right (Michael Cannon) and from the left (Andy Slavitt) about the book and its proposals. For now please give your views in the comments–Matthew Holt There are many reasons why the United States is “the most expensive place in the world to get sick.” In Part 1 of Overcharg...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Economics OP-ED Cato Institute Charles Silver David A. Hyman Obamacare Overcharged Source Type: blogs

Under Proposed Rules, Government Could Choose Insurance Plans for Millions of People
Charles Hughes The administration is considering a rule change that would allow the government to automatically change some people’s exchange plans to a cheaper alternative. HHS recently proposed regulations that would let exchanges offer alternative default options for enrollees. Under current law, most enrollees who did not revisit the exchange website are automatically re-enrolled in their plans (a few states do not allow automatic renewal). The new proposed rules would let exchange enrollees choose whether their default option would be to automatically renew the same plan or to let the government switch them into a ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 1, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs

Government Sends Wrong Tax Form to Nearly One Million Obamacare Enrollees
Charles Hughes Fresh off another victory lap last week, Obamacare supporters awoke last Friday to the news that the government had given nearly one million exchange enrollees incorrect tax forms that could significantly affect their tax returns. 800,000 enrollees in the federal exchange and roughly 100,000 in California were given the wrong forms, called 1095-As, which provide a monthly account of the premium subsidies exchange enrollees receive. The government uses that information to determine that the subsidy amounts are correct (although a pending Supreme Court case raises questions about the legality of any subsidies...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 23, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs

Fewer Choices and Higher Premiums in the Affordable Care Act ’s Exchanges
People shopping around on the insurance exchanges when the Affordable Care Act ’s Open Enrollment period begins next week will find that the choices they have are limited and that insurance premiums have gone up significantly.A new brief from the Department of Health and Human Services reports an average increase of 22 percent for benchmark plans, and consumers in some states will face hikes as high as 116 percent in Arizona.  The high profile exits of Aetna and UnitedHealth were covered at the time, but the report gives new insights into the aggregate effects of smaller exits and discontinuations as well. In the states...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 27, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs

Our Man in the NQF? - CareFusion Settles Kickback Allegations for $40.1 Million and Government Alleges They Meant to Manipulate National Quality Forum Standards
What appeared to be yet another entry in the march of legal settlements turns out to be more interesting than it first appeared.The Basic Story: Off-Label Marketing  The story was initially briefly reported in the media.  A report in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on 9 January, 2014, was perhaps the most complete, CareFusion, a manufacturer of medical and surgical supplies and medical devices, has agreed to settle charges of illegal marketing practices and kickback payments for promoting sales of the company’s surgical preparation solution, Chloraprep.Under the terms of the settlement with Washington, other sta...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 22, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: CareFusion conflicts of interest guidelines institutional conflicts of interest kickbacks legal settlements National Quality Forum pay for performance Source Type: blogs

Reversing Essure: Say Hello To Essure Reversal Baby Emily!
Mom with second Essure reversal baby, Emily Ann. Reversing Essure is possible if you are hoping for another baby. Removing Essure without a hysterectomy is possible if you are having symptoms after Essure. Most health care providers are not aware Essure inserts can be safely removed without a hysterectomy. Dr. Monteith is a reversal specialist who helps women restore natural fertility through Essure reversal surgery and treats women with symptoms from Essure with Essure removal surgery. Essure inserts can be removed without a hysterectomy and Essure can be reversed and allow the chance for natural conception and pregnancy...
Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - October 15, 2015 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Dr. Monteith Tags: essure reversal Fall River how is essure reversed Massachusetts pregnancy reversing essure symptoms tubal reversal facebook Source Type: blogs

The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
October 27, 2022 Edition-----In the UK we have a political farce running with only a day or so to run when you read this, with a new PM (Rishi Sunak) in place..In the US the mid-term elections are coming in a week or so, thus some concern as to where the US is going!In China Xi has his third 5 year term so we all wonder how that will turn out!In OZ we have has a Budget with floods, inflation, data leaks, the threat of recession, Medicare concerns and other issues just rolling on! At least the Budget does not seem to have broken anything!Overall an ‘omnishambles’ as they say!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/wo...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 27, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Health Datapalooza 2017 Day 1: Data Liberation, Sharing, and Analytics
Welcome to Medgadget‘s coverage of Health Datapalooza 2017, an AcademyHealth event, in Washington, DC. The now annual event was launched in 2010 by the Obama administration as a hackathon-style program where attendees were challenged to deve...
Source: Medgadget - May 1, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs

Matthew Holt ’ s EOY 2017 letter (charities/issues/gossip)
Right at the end of every year I write a letter summarizing my issues and charities. And as I own the joint here, I post it on THCB! Please take a look–Matthew Holt Well 2017 has been quite a year, and last year 2016 I failed to get my end-of-year letter out at all. This I would like to think was due to extreme business but it probably came down to me being totally lazy. On the other hand like many of you I may have just been depressed about the election–2016 was summed up by our cat vomiting on our bed at 11.55 on New Years Eve. Having said that even though most of you will never comment on this letter and I ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Matthew Holt Charity Patient Activism Source Type: blogs

The Anti-ACO / Hospital Medical Practice Consolidation
A physician, Charles Beauchamp, recently left the following comment (shown below) on my ACO and Hospital Consolidation post on EMR and EHR. This might be another example of the EHR Physician Revolt. I wonder how many other doctors will go “against the grain” like Dr. Beauchamp. As a physician who is going “against the grain” (ie “hospital owned” to private practice” rather than in the opposite direction) I have the following model of action to become part of a patient centered rather than exploitative ACO: 1) Establish my rural practice in my house at a very low cost, including asking some of my patie...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 11, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Lynn Tags: Healthcare HealthCare IT HIE LabCorp Rural Healthcare Telemedicine Source Type: blogs

More Signs of Organized Resistance? - Proposed Legislation for More Hospital Leadership Accountability
This year we note the beginning of action against the power of large health care organizations lead by hired executives and cronies who seem to put their self-interest and self-enrichment ahead of patients' and the people's health.  In 2013 we noted no confidence votes by medical school faculty (here), and university faculty (here) against academic leaders perceived as putting their power and wealth ahead of core values, actions by a state governor (here) and a big city mayor (here) against local health care systems perceived as putting their executives' enrichment ahead of their services to patients, and a union labo...
Source: Health Care Renewal - April 1, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: executive compensation organized resistance logical fallacies non-profit organizations public relations Providence Health Systems hospital systems Source Type: blogs

Guest podcast: Deborah Gordon of Network Health talks reform with Sivad Solutions
Discussion topics included: 1. The challenges of serving a very diverse population and customer base, along with lower income customers as a result of income or job situation. 2. Network Health, and states like Massachusetts, have lead the nation in Medicaid health care. How can that trend, and how can the reforms found in Massachusetts, spread across the land? 3. The creation of the Health Insurance Exchange is the key to success…which brings competition and market forces to bear in health care. “It is like Expedia for health insurance…” 4. A focus on quality patient care going forward… 5. What are the challenge...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - April 17, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Accountable Care Organizations care coordination consumerism data mining disease management education Finance health reform patient safety podcast quality regulations hospital readmissions Massachusetts Medicaid Network Healt Source Type: blogs