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Will A Negotiated Agreement on the Fiscal Cliff Fix Things? by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy While the dysfunction of the "fiscal cliff" negotiation crawls along like a slow-motion Titanic movie dubbed in some obscure foreign language, vaguely interested readers may ... Read on »

Some Medicare Stars Program Updates and the Overlap with Population-Based Care and Disease... by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Disease Management Care Blog is back from grandly named "Healthcare Education Associates' and the Risk Adjustment Initiative And Society for Education's (RISE)" ... Read on »

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

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A Festival of Lights and Insights awaits you at the latest Health Wonk Review. This edition is hosted by the unsinkable Hank Stern over at the InsureBlog. You can learn a ... Read on »

Some Follow-Up by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Remember the Atul Gawande and McAllen Texas fracas ? That New Yorker article captured the national spotlight and put a harsh glare on areas of the United States that had un ... Read on »

12 Reasons Why Every Physician Should Have A Twitter Account by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Disease Management Care Blog really likes Twitter . Its scrolling 140-character tableau of news nuggets fit perfectly on the DMCB's hand held device, lap top an ... Read on »

Being Bullish on the Patient Centered Medical Home, Despite What the Annals of Internal Medicine... by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Disease Management Care Blog recently received a curious email from the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative. As readers may recall, this is the Washing ... Read on »

Exercise Doesn't Have To Be Hard Work by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy With some creativity, it can be made downright fun. C'est vrai, n'est pas? Read on »

Whither Obamacare, Now That "It's the Law of the Land?" by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy While a roll-back of Obamacare now is about as likely as spotting gargoyle statuettes among the DMCB spouse's holiday decor, a recent New England Journal article po ... Read on »

Another Study Shows Disease Management Works by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Here's more evidence that disease management really works. The study, Online Disease Management of Diabetes: Engaging and Motivating Patients Online With Enhanced Reso ... Read on »

More on Al Lewis' Book "Why No One Believes the Numbers" by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Remember the DMCB's reviews ( here and here ) of Al Lewis' book Why No One Believes the Numbers ? The DMCB can't either, which is why you may want to check out this review ... Read on »

A One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Determining Clinical Effectiveness Versus Shared Decision Making by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Disease Management Care Blog recently attended a physician meeting that keynoted a U.S. Senator. In his prepared comments, he admitted that he knew little abou ... Read on »

The Electronic Health Record (EHR) On-Line Portal Increases Hospitalization Rates by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy "Hi doc! I used my on-line portal to make an appointment!" Hey there Accountable Care Organization executive. You're probably willing to continue to com ... Read on »

March of Dimes Says the PREEMIE Act Saves Lives. Does It? by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Saving children's lives. Nothing could be nobler right? According to a November 15 March of Dimes press release “The PREEMIE Reauthorization Act will save infants’ li ... Read on »

The Latest Cavalcade of Risk Is Up by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy .... and it's been up for a while. The tardy DMCB was mentioned in Louse Norris' excellent rendition of the Cav back on November 14. Even now, however, the Colorado Health ... Read on »

Patient "Skin in the Game" Has Its Limits: The Assymetry of Patient Cost-Sharing Incentives by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Disease Management Care Blog always thought that the upsides and downsides of patient " skin in the game " was "symmetrical." Writing in the Oct 24 issue of JAMA, Kevin ... Read on »

More On Why The Prognosis of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) Is Guarded and How Should... by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy For a long time, the more than 5000 regular visitors to the Disease Management Care Blog have been aware of the gap separating the promise and reality of Accountabl ... Read on »

The Dilemma of Medicare Coverage of "Reasonable and Necessary" Care and Why It's Important by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy If you get sick, health insurance should cover all the "stuff" necessary to make you better, right? While that sounds good in principle, Uncle Sam has made it a ... Read on »

DMCB Election Insights with Help From the Queen of Rock and Roll by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Disease Management Care Blog spent a better part of the day on the Pennsylvania Turnpike scanning the radio dial for insights on yesterday's national elections. As the ... Read on »

Texting to Promote Weight Loss and in Population Health Management by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Anyone who regularly attends a house of worship is certainly aware of how preachers make a point of regularly visiting parishioners while they're in a hospital. Sin ... Read on »

Hospitals Push Back Against "RAC" Audits. They Should. by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy One of the Disease Management Care Blog's local hospitals has jumped into a lawsuit against Medicare. According to this article , the dreaded 2003 Medicare Mod ... Read on »

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