Insurance
The game of numbers
The dark underbelly of health care is becoming all too visible now.
Fresh faces in neatly pressed white coats are in the halls. Eager. Enthusiastic. Clearly very bright. All hoping for a moment, an experience, an encounter that makes all their hard work worth it. Surely they’ll have one, but not before the thousands of keyboard clicks, the mandatory lectures, rounds and lots of lengthy, lonely call nights.
ABIM’s new research on physicians
Weight loss: GI Dynamics notches milestones in Israel, Netherlands
Weight-loss devices maker GI Dynamics (ASX:GID) announced a couple of new wins in recent weeks, tallying new reimbursement coverage from healthcare officials in Israel and the Netherlands.
CHIP on the block: Should the Children’s Health Insurance Program continue?
By Scott Howe
Funding for the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) will run out in 2015. Will this leave many kids without health insurance?
Hologic eyes reimbursement win for breast tomosynthesis
Affordable Care Act update: What’s next for children, hospitals, insurers?
By Scott Howe
It’s been a few months since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health exchanges opened for business, and there’s still a lot of speculation on how the bill will affect children, hospitals and insurers.
3 healthcare trends patients will notice in the new year
As we enter the New Year, I like to reflect on where we’ve been and where we’re heading in medicine. By far and away, this is the most tumultuous time I have ever experienced in health care. Doctors and nurses appear stressed and downtrodden, administrators are running scared, desperate to seem "value-added," and patients are scrambling to get seen in these last two days of 2013.
How will health insurance exchanges affect doctors and hospitals?
By Scott Howe
The Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s health insurance exchanges opened for business on Oct. 1, and, despite website glitches and non-stop political fighting, citizens across the U.S. can now comparison shop and pick an insurance plan.
With Obamacare: Remember the Challenger
Lessons learned from the health insurance exchange launch
CIOs face many pressures – increase scope, reduce timelines, trim budgets. After nearly 20 years as a CIO, I’ve learned a great deal about project success factors.
When faced with go live pressures, I tell my staff the following:
"If you go live months late when you’re ready, no one will ever remember.