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Health Insurance Company Member Engagement Index: The EveryMove 100 27 Aug 2013 | 04:58 pm
There's a new index in town. Today's entrant is the EveryMove 100, a ranking of health plans across the US "based on how they engage with and empower consumers to manage their own health." according t...
Leverage: Preventable readmissions and a recent OIG advisory opinion 26 Aug 2013 | 07:39 pm
Medicare's excess readmission penalty policy (up to a 1% ding in IPPS Medicare payments to hospitals that have excess readmissions for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure and pneumonia in FFY 2...
Scanners and HIPAA Compliance 21 Aug 2013 | 08:57 pm
Sponsored by Canon U.S.A., Inc. “Canon’s extensive scanner product line enables businesses worldwide to capture, store and distribute information.” The ideas below are my own. A recent HHS OCR HIPAA...
The RUC (again): Is there a light at the end of the tunnel? A conversation with Brian Klepper 14 Aug 2013 | 07:44 am
Recently, there were a couple of breathless articles about the RUC (Relative Value Scale Update Committee) published in The Washington Post and The Washington Monthly, reporting as news the state of a...
Another Pan Mass Challenge Enters the History Books 7 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
This past weekend's weather was perfect for riding, and the company was perfect too: 5500 like-minded cyclists, with thousands more volunteering their time and effort to keep us fed, hydrated and happ...
Hacking HIPAA - Join Us! 7 Aug 2013 | 01:50 am
For years, a common refrain in the health care space has been that regulations are constraining innovation. The latest in a long list of rules that constrain health IT development are the HIPAA/HITEC...
Diabetes Innovation: We Get to "Ask Manny" a Few Questions 30 Jul 2013 | 01:00 am
I spoke with Manny Hernandez (@askmanny) about the diabetes online communities he founded at TuDiabetes (Engligh) and EsTuDiabetes (Spanish) -- which include tens of thousands of people with diabetes ...
Pan Mass Challenge 2013 - Please join me in the fight to lick cancer 9 Jul 2013 | 07:02 pm
If it's the first weekend in August, then my 5,000 closest friends and I are biking 200 miles in the Pan Mass Challenge. We're riding to lick cancer. This scourge is everywhere. We ride for for eve...
Hacking HIPAA 25 Jun 2013 | 01:37 am
Join me in attacking an endemic problem in health care today by Hacking HIPAA. I am crowdfunding the development of a new legal form to be used on and after September 23, 2013 to allow patients to opt...
Alternative Quality Contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts: A model for ACOs? 18 Jun 2013 | 07:37 pm
Managed Care Magazine recently ran a story on the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Alternative Quality Contract (AQC), which serves as a model for the ACO program under the Affordable Care Act....
