Employers face 10.5% cost increase
August 26, 2009, 6:55 AM
Aon Consulting surveyed leading health plans and projects that health costs for employers will rise 10.5 percent next year.

From CMS: Medicare Quality Demonstration Paying Off
August 18, 2009, 6:00 AM
CMS issued a press release reporting that financial incentives for improving the quality of care is paying off. Here is the full text.

Balance
August 17, 2009, 3:30 PM
Bringing business principles into a physician practice should be tempered by the primary purpose - the physician and patient time. It's a matter of finding the right balance between the two.

Where Goes Health Reform
July 27, 2009, 6:25 AM
Health reform continnues to move forward. Yes, it's scary, but anything different requires a degree of faith.

Coalition Pushes to Cut Admin Costs - Save $50 Billion a year (ok, maybe 25)
July 20, 2009, 10:20 AM
A coalition of healthcare organizations, including MGMA, AAFP, AHIMA and others, is working to simplify administrative complexity and costs.

Getting Ready for Reform
July 17, 2009, 12:10 PM
A recent McKinsey survey reports that only 30% of healthcare industry executives say that their companies are ready for reform. Regardless of the specifics of the final legislation - o even if there is legislation - it will be a ...

Reforming Day-to-Day Health Care Delivery
July 14, 2009, 6:00 AM
Dr. John Kenagy, a surgeon, executive and scholar, argues that the key to health care reform is cost control, and that the key to cost control is the organization of delivery organizations. Here's what he thinks and the job for ...

Recycled Ideas with a Dash of New Trash - It's Still Capitation
July 07, 2009, 11:35 AM
A Seattle practice has recycled ideas of capitation, no insurance practices, and practice management companies. They tied it up, convinced some VC firms to put up money for what they think is an "innovative" concept, and gotten press. You be ...

Primary Care to Gain Fees: CMS Announces Several Proposals
July 06, 2009, 10:50 AM
CMS has announced several proposals that will make dramatic revisions in physician payments, Consultation codes will be eliminated and the monies shifted to the E/M codes; imaging, physician provided drugs and other changes are in the works.

Getting Test Results to Patients - Maybe
June 25, 2009, 11:05 PM
A study this week finds that physician practices too often fail to tell patient about lab results - including findings that require follow up and treatment. There are better practices.