by Keith Kuhn | Apr 22, 2013 | Government
Proposal rejects managed care, builds on CCNC model As North Carolina Govenor Pat McCrory moves ahead with attempts to fix what he calls an irreversibly broken Medicaid system fraught with cost overruns and mismanagement, the North Carolina Medical Society believes...
by Keith Kuhn | Apr 20, 2013 | Government
The controversial Medicare bidding procurement program for home medical equipment is forcing many small and large providers in California to lay off employees or close their businesses, developments that will likely disrupt the quality of service and products received...
by Keith Kuhn | Apr 20, 2013 | Industry
Movies have them. Restaurants have them. Even hotels have them. So when it comes to the quality of our health care, is it really so unrealistic to expect a universal metric to rate performance? On the heels of the White House budget release, there is no question that...
by Keith Kuhn | Apr 20, 2013 | Beneficiary
Young workforce? Healthy? Plan to pay more for health insurance than you expected next year. The industry explanation for the change is rate band compression. Think of it as an unintended consequence of health care reform, a defect that smart people are trying to fix....
by Keith Kuhn | Apr 20, 2013 | Industry
Payers and providers are going to have to align incentives and share relevant data to improve both quality and cost of care, said speakers at the 10th Annual World Health Care Congress in National Harbor, Md. In a session titled, Collaborative Care Models —...
