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People want more control over health care in the midst of rising costs: a...
by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn First posted on Health Populi on 12/17/2012 Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Host of Health Populi Two surveys of American consumers point to their growing concern over (1) rising costs and...
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Cost-conscious health consumers are adopting personal health IT
by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn First posted on Health Populi on 01/02/2013 Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Host of Health Populi People enrolled in consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) and high-deductible health plans...
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New Year’s Resolutions for health, and the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show
by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn First posted on Health Populi on 01/04/2013 Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Host of Health Populi When it comes to taking on personal responsibility, the #1 New Year’s Resolution is to engage...
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Health reform, costs and the growing role of consumers: PwC’s tea leaves for...
by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn First posted on Health Populi on 01/23/2013 Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Host of Health Populi PwC has seen the future of health care for the next year, and the crystal ball expects to see...
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How Small Business Is Helped By Obamacare… and Large Businesses Will Be Less...
by Jaan Sidorov First posted on the Disease Management Care Blog on 01/29/2013 Jaan Sidorov, host of Disease Management Care Blog It wasn’t until the Disease Management Care Blog had read this Jan. 30...
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Insurance migration and counter-migration
by Paul Levy First posted on (Not) Running a Hospital on 01/31/2013 Paul Levy, Host of (Not) Running a Hospital I bet that if you were to look at the trends in medical insurance premium growth for...
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Health care cost illiteracy: consumers feel the pinch of growing costs, but...
by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn First posted on Health Populi on 02/01/2013 Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Host of Health Populi Health care costs for workers lucky enough to receive health insurance at work nearly doubled...
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Health cost transparency on the W-2: sticker shock at the point-of-paystub
by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn First posted on Health Populi on 02/11/2013 Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Host of Health Populi If you receive health insurance benefits from your employer, you’ll see a new line item on...
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Health consumers don’t understand overtreatment, and their role in driving...
by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn First posted on Health Populi on 02/20/2013 Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Host of Health Populi Overuse of health care is defined as the delivery of health care services for which the risks...
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Required reading: TIME Magazine’s Bitter Pill Cover Story
by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn First posted on Health Populi on 02/21/2013 Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Host of Health Populi Today’s Health Populi is devoted to Steven Brill and his colleagues at TIME magazine whose...
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Trickle Up Economics
By Rob Lamberts MD First Posted at Musings of a Distractible Mind on 3/5/2013 Rob Lamberts, MD It’s been a month since I started my new practice. We are up to nearly 150 patients now, and aside from...
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People want more control over health care in the midst of rising costs: a...
by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn First posted on Health Populi on 12/17/2012 Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Host of Health Populi Two surveys of American consumers point to their growing concern over (1) rising costs and...
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Bill Clinton’s public health, cost-bending message thrills health IT folks at...
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn First Posted at Health Populi on 3/7/2013 Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Host of Health Populi In 2010, the folks who supported health care reform were massacred by the polls, Bill Clinton...
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Merger fever today. Fever tomorrow.
By Paul Levy First Posted at Not Running a Hospital on 3/11/2013 Paul Levy, Host of (Not) Running a Hospital Here we go again. The cyclic fads of health care are leading hospital boards and CEOs back...
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Phil Lebherz, CEO of PointCare asks “Uninsured? or Uninformed?”
By Patricia Salber First Posted at HIBC.tv on 3/12/2013 I got to spend some time chatting with Phil Lebherz, CEO and Ankeny Minoux, COO of PointCare while at HIMSS. If you don’t know about PointCare,...
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ACA Driving Premiums Up?
By Thomas Emerick First Posted at Cracking Health Costs on 3/22/2013 Tom Emerick, Host of Cracking Health Care Costs According to a WSJ article, health insurers are predicting big rate hikes for many...
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The Reality of Health Care Cost
Brian Klepper Posted 3/22/13 on Medscape Connect’s Care and Cost Blog This beautifully written letter was forwarded after an interview with me on health care cost appeared in a Florida newspaper. Many...
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HCUP: Hospital Costs, Not Prices
By Dr. Bradley Flansbaum First Posted at The Hospitalist Leader on 3/24/2013 Bradley Flansbaum, Co-host of The Hospitalist Leader AHRQ released a helpful brief in 2013 assessing costs (not prices) for...
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The ACA Cadillac Tax Looming
By Thomas Emerick First Posted at Cracking Health Costs on 4/5/2013 Tom Emerick, Host of Cracking Health Care Costs The WSJ had a good article by Emily Chasan about the ACA “Cadillac Tax” which goes...
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First, assume a ladder.
By Paul Levy First Posted at Not Running a Hospital on 4/24/2013 Paul Levy, Host of (Not) Running a Hospital One day I was with a prominent health care economist here in Boston. I brought up the issue...
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