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A Scoring System to Predict Hospital Readmissions by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Knowing, based on this paper , that the readmission rate to U.S. hospitals is as high as 20%, you and your colleagues decide to implement a readmissions prevention program." ... Read on »

Controlling Health Care Costs: Different Countries, Same Levers by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The levers that control health care costs Ask an average voter how health insurers reduce costs and, thanks to years of hostile anti-insurer rhetoric , he o ... Read on »

An Update On Population Health Management: It's Working! by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy CMS, MA Plans & Disease Management? It's a good day when Health Affairs has nice things to say about population health management (PHM). After all, Health ... Read on »

Big Data and the Coming New Value Proposition for Disease, Care and Wellness Management Providers by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Disease Management Care Blog readers know that the its latest interest is "Big Data." While the researcher-DMCB has played in the sandbox of some insurance claims data set ... Read on »

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: Cautions and Caveats by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy "Maybe you should go back to the hospital!" Ask most wonks - especially ones who never took care of a patient - about "readmissions," and, after quoting ... Read on »

The Persistence of Disease Management: It's Not Going Away...... by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy We're all aware of the past criticisms of "disease management." According to the critics, these for-profit vendors were in collusion with commercial insurers, relying robo ... Read on »

How Can Care Management Respond to Patients' Spiritual Concerns? by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Disease Management Care Blog remembers her well. She knew it was not going to be good news. That gnawing pain in the pit of the stomach was getting worse and, when t ... Read on »

ACO Market Dominance: What's Happening At the Local Level? by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy ACOs and insurers discuss terms The Disease Management Care Blog likes to think of itself as having achieved "critical mass." Now that its readership has cl ... Read on »

Physician Survey Shows Docs Prefer ACOs for Their Market Clout, Not Quality by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Physicians climb aboard the ACOs Talk about spin. Deloitte has released its 2013 Survey of U.S. Physicians that examines attitudes about health reform ... Read on »

Exorcising the Ghost of Cost Shifting: Why the Alternative May Be Worse by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The cost-shifting ghost! The Disease Management Care Blog continues to welcome blog posts from outside authors. This is another one, courtesy of Erik Tol ... Read on »

Accountable Care Organizations Can Improve Population Health If They Use The Correct Definition by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The right definition was there all along! Writing in the March 20 issue of JAMA , Drs. Douglas Noble and Lawrence Casalino say that supporters of Accountabl ... Read on »

How Can Care Management Programs Manage Physician Incentives? by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy One ingredient for physician cooperation? Years ago, when the Disease Management Care Blog was helping to lead a care management program, it was paired up w ... Read on »

The Latest Health Wonk Review Is Up! by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Do you know what "trenchant" means? How Bain Capital is investing in methadone clinics? Whether insurers can game exchanges? If there's room for one more comparison betwee ... Read on »

The Failure of "The Coming Failure of Accountable Care" by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy An alternative to ACOs? Anyone remotely interested in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), should be aware of this Wall Street Journal article by economis ... Read on »

A Definition of "Big Data" for Health Care Providers and Five Useful Caveats by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy And you thought its only function was to be an EHR? Regular readers of the Wall Street Journal probably saw the Monday March 11 "big data" section that was ... Read on »

Does Worksite Wellness Work? A Critical Look at the "Wellness Incentives In the Workplace" Article by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A waste of money and a basis for discrimination? The answer to the "Does Worksite Wellness Work?" question depends on your frame of reference. If you re ... Read on »

In Defense of the Patient Centered Medical Home and Consumer Directed Health Plans (CDHPs) by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Writing in the Health Affairs Blog , health policy savant Michael Millenson has been infected with an unusual case of naysayerosis. Since the Disease Management Care Bl ... Read on »

The Latest Cavalcade of Risk is Up! by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The latest Cavalcade of Risk is up at David Williams' Health Business Blog. Dave has summarized and linked the web sites of writers with insights about personal, business, i ... Read on »

A Money Back Guarantee in Health Care? You Bet! by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Who cares about the color, so long as it catches mice? Talk about disruptive. While an unholy alliance of CMS mandarins, fawning think-tank supporters a ... Read on »

Health Reform and Capitation 2.0 by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy New recipe for capitation? Readers of Kaiser Health News, Politico and The Hill ( here , here and here , respectively) were treated to the faux news of anot ... Read on »

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