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Health care outsourcing to India was a $300 million business last year. And a just-released Health Affairs article indicates that the total market may be a lot, and I mean a LOT, bigger.
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Health care outsourcing to India was a $300 million business last year. And a just-released Health Affairs article indicates that the total market may be a lot, and I mean a LOT, bigger.
Read More...Non-insurance folks, especially those who aren’t happy with their insurance for whatever reason, or those seeking to write best-selling books (John Grisham, for one), use some pretty strong adjectives describing the heartless penny-pinching mean-spirited folk who are “the insurance company”. … Continue reading What insurance people are really like
Read More...I just can’t stop myself. The Ohio Bureau of Workers Comp scandal is so big, so juicy, so full of great stories and bizarre twists and turns and corruption and lying and deceit and, well, we could be talking mini-series … Continue reading Noe’s new home
Read More...Coventry announced their third quarter earnings this week, and much of the news was good. Health plans have been experiencing declining medical loss ratios and strong pricing, resulting in solid profiits and increasing revenues, and Coventry’s results mirror the industry. … Continue reading First Health’s unfulfilled promise
Read More...A reader asked several excellent questions about when and under what circumstances direct contracting makes sense. That’s when an employer contracts directly with health care providers. My take is an employer has to have at least 750 lives in one … Continue reading Direct contracting
Read More...Payer-provider interactions are getting downright pugnacious. Perhaps a more accurate characterization is the big health plans and health care systems are raising pugnacity to new levels. Denver is the scene of one highly public row featuring United Healthcare and HCA’s … Continue reading Ugly ugly ugly
Read More...A study released by the Mayo Clinic, reports that there is far too much money spent on end-of-life care. The study is paralleled by a newly released Dartmouth study , reports that indicates Medicare spent about $40 billion more than … Continue reading End of life care costs too much
Read More...My post about a colleague’s unwitting effort to educate the rest of us about the nuances of HSAs and payment policies has drawn a bit of interest amongst loyal readers and a couple of others as well. That requires follow … Continue reading UHC’s HSA policy language
Read More...Dartmouth’s study on the number of physicians required to treat Americans includes an observation which bears directly on the USNews report on the nation’s best hospitals. One of the top ten, the Mayo Clinic,needs one-third as many physicians to treat … Continue reading More docs does not equal better rankings
Read More...US News’ annual rankings of the nation’s “best” hospitals by specialty is out, and hospital execs and PR staff around the country are either studiously ignoring the release or aggressively trumpeting their selection. Expect to see more billboards, especially around … Continue reading Is rating the “best” hospitals “good”?
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