J.K. Wall, Indianapolis Business Journal The immediate reaction on Wall Street to last month’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding President Obama’s health care law was to buy hospital stocks and dump health insurance stocks. But at least one analyst expects the long-term outcome to be exactly opposite of that. Sheryl Skolnick, co-head of research at… Read more »
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Academic Medical Centers: What’s Their Role in the Consolidating Healthcare Market?
Written by Maria Finarelli, principal, Health Strategies & Solutions | July 02, 2012 Health care organizations of all types and sizes are evaluating their ability to remain independent given the significant changes underway and on the horizon. According to Irving Levin Associates, 90 hospital merger or acquisition deals targeting 156 hospitals occurred in 2011, the highest… Read more »
5 Questions for Building Physician Engagement
Written by Ralph Jacobson, Founder and Principal, The Leader’s Toolbox | July 09, 2012 The challenge For most healthcare leaders, reform has focused on the implications of changes in payment models. Yet the objectives outlined in the Triple Aim require a significant redefinition in the way frontline personnel must work together to deliver service. No formulas,… Read more »
Healthcare Creates 169K Jobs Halfway Through 2012
John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, July 9, 2012 The healthcare industry created 13,000 jobs in June, a significant drop from the sector’s 33,300 new jobs in May. The overall unemployment rate, however, remained unchanged at 8.2%. Nevertheless, Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Friday shows that healthcare created 169,800 jobs in the first half… Read more »
89 ACOs Open for Business
John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, July 10, 2012 Federal officials announced Monday that 89 Accountable Care Organizations opened on July 1 in 40 states and Washington, DC and will serve 1.2 million Medicare beneficiaries. Jonathan Blum, principal deputy administrator and director of the Center for Medicare, said in a teleconference that another 400 provider… Read more »
How Bundled Payments Pay Off in Joint-replacement
This article appears in the June 2012 issue of HealthLeaders magazine. Before they met with vendors of joint surgery devices several years ago, top officials of the 1,674-licensed-bed Baptist Health System in San Antonio, Texas, didn’t realize that millions of dollars were at stake that day. The meeting included hospital officials, a team of orthopedic… Read more »
The Gap Between Skilled Healthcare Workers and Support Jobs
John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, July 2, 2012 A stubborn line of demarcation exists between the haves and have-nots in the U.S. healthcare workforce. For skilled technicians and healthcare practitioners, there are more than two job openings for every qualified candidate. The Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine data series for June reports 615,800 online… Read more »
Health Law Deadlines Under Pressure
By Julie Appleby, Mary Agnes Carey and Marilyn Werber Serafini Kaiser Health News Staff Writers This story was produced in collaboration with With Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling upholding the health law, debate has shifted to whether deadlines key to the law’s goal of expanding coverage to tens of millions of Americans will be pushed back…. Read more »
Supreme Court to review Phoebe Putney purchase of Palmyra
Bloomberg BusinessWeek, June 26, 2012 The U.S. Supreme Court said it will decide whether states can block antitrust scrutiny of hospital mergers such as Phoebe Putney Health System Inc.’s acquisition of Palmyra Park Hospital in Georgia. The justices today said they will hear the Federal Trade Commission’s appeal of a U.S. appellate court ruling… Read more »
U.S. Overpaying for Veterans’ Healthcare
Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media The federal government is wasting more than $3.2 billion a year because it is paying twice to provide the same care for veterans, once through capitated rates to Medicare Advantage plans, and again to finance the VA healthcare system, which actually provides the care. That’s according to a report in… Read more »