Care Coordination: Not Just Economics but the “Right Thing to Do”
The New York Times (Small-Picture Approach Flips Medical Economics) has an upbeat piece about the potential for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to improve quality and reduce costs. The article focuses…
Is Eating Red Meat Bad For You?
So, this story from Harvard on how red meat is bad for you deserves some unpacking. First, allow me to say that all meat is not created equal: the…
5 ICD-10 Steps that Deliver Collateral Benefit for ICD-9
While at HIMSS 2012, TrustHCS had the honor of sponsoring an executive roundtable on ICD-10. During the roundtable, speakers discussed five ICD-10 projects that should be continued, full steam…
PCI Compliance with Service Providers
The PCI sub-requirements and testing procedures 12.8-12.84 concern the relationship between merchants and their service providers, including PCI compliant hosting providers. The PCI sub-requirements and testing procedures 12.8-12.84 concern the relationship between…
Death With Dignity – Oregon Family Doctor Peter Goodwin
Peter Goodwin, a Family Practice Doctor who championed Death With Dignity laws in Oregon for many years, took his own life on Sunday using drugs obtained under a law he…
Physicians Surveyed Gloomy About Healthcare Reform
Recently, The Doctors Company (TDC), the country’s largest insurer of physician and surgeon medical liability, decided to survey doctors to determine what they are thinking and feeling about…
Online Physician Rating Sites Aren’t Getting Enough Patient Ratings
Columnist Ron Lieber writes that consumers are not posting online reviews of their health care experiences as often as they are posting online reviews of restaurants and…
Santorum Stones Romney on Health Care –But Lives in a Glass House Himself
No surprise, Rick Santorum is attacking Mitt Romney’s record on health care. He’s going after Romney for instituting the prototype for “Obamacare” in Massachusetts. Santorum is right about that, and…
HHS Issues Final Rule on State Health Insurance Exchanges
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today published the final rule that will assist states in building more affordable health insurance exchanges. Beginning in 2014, one stop marketplaces…
What Colonoscopies Cost (and Why)
Recent data from a large New York health insurer show that 85 percent of colonoscopies (about 26,000 procedures) for metro New York consumers were performed in physicians’ offices. The cost…
