‘Your insurance plan covers the 80% of you that’s healthy.’
Cartoon – Health Insurance Coverage
Monthly Archives: December 2015
Startup health insurer embraces narrow-network plan design
Denver-based Melody Health Insurance hopes to drive down prices by being choosy about providers
Study finds 20% of Americans have ‘no usual source of healthcare’
How Postacute Care is Evolving
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With shared interests in reducing readmission rates and associated Medicare payment penalties, hospitals and skilled nursing facilities are in the vanguard of an evolutionary movement.
Remaking the Hospital Board
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With important strategic decisions increasing in frequency, boards need specific skills and experience to help evaluate their options and avoid mistakes.
Cartoon – Federal Reform
Reflections from Health Republic’s top exec as business winds down
Kaiser’s bid to start a medical school: ‘A game changer’
“It is a game changer,” said Wilkes at UC Davis. “Universities are not geared or staffed to teach around the modern practice of medicine. They are fixed in an outdated model of education guided by a report written 100 years ago.”
Legacy doc implants new anti-stroke device for first time in Oregon
The Watchman Left Atrial Appendage Closure Device prevents blood clotting and stroke.
HENRY KOTULA 