The Importance of Drug Utilization Review
Drug Utilization Review Drug Utilization Review One of the most costly and complex elements of today’s healthcare system is prescription drugs. For each state, there are tools and resources for hospitals…
Medicaid Expansion Rejection Starts to Bite
In its ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court did allow states to opt out of the expansion of the Medicaid program, which serves the poor. My feeling at…
Show Me the Money: Profitability Through Value-Based Purchasing
Summary: Are you ready for a shift in risk from payer to provider? Will you be ready for value-based purchasing when it becomes required? Are you utilizing other reimbursement models…
New Era of Healthcare: Transparency, Candor and Pointed Questions
Stewart Gandolf of Healthcare Success talks with Leah Binder, President and CEO of The LeapFrog Group.“It’s a new voice that is starting to emerge for the healthcare consumer,” according to
Why Did Health Spending Slow Down Before It Sped Up?
Last quarter, spending on health care grew an astounding 9.9%. That’s the biggest percent change in healthcare spending since 1980.What’s the reason? Many people blame it on the Affordable Care…
10 Commandments of Online Reputation Management for Physicians [Part One]
Across the board, reputation is an ever-present ingredient in health care marketing. Across the board, reputation is an ever-present ingredient in health care marketing.Informed and empowered consumer/patients do their homework,…
Some Top Tips for Budding LinkedIn Influencers
Last month in my exclusive post for HealthWorks Collective, I wrote about LinkedIn’s influencer blogging programme, and how it was potentially missing a trick by focussing too much on C-level…
The Doctor’s Customer Is the Insurer: Shouldn’t It Be the Patient?
You the patient are really not the customer of your primary care physician. Since the insurer will determine whether and how much the physician will be paid for attending to your…
Why I’m Against Wellness
I’m a physician and I’m against wellness. Let me explain.Wellness is the new health mantra that has much more to do with marketing than with evidence-based medicine. Wellness institutions and…
One More Way ObamaCare May Lead to Single Payer
One reason opponents of ObamaCare are so vehement is that they fear the Affordable Care Act may lead the United States to a single payer system. They’re not entirely wrong.…
