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.…
Aesthetics and Reconstructive Surgery: A Market in Transformation
Aesthetic and reconstructive surgery has been undergoing a transformation over the past ten years. A wide range of forces are changing the dynamics of clinical practice and the market for…
How Wearables Will Transform the Health Insurance Game
It’s official: Developing wearable gadgets is all the rage.From fitness bands to sensors that can be swallowed, wearable technology is expanding the possibilities of medicine. The evolution and expanding capabilities…
