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Which one of these 19 websites are on your must-read list as a healthcare executive member?

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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/which-one-19-your-must-read-list-healthcare-executive-fontenot-iii/

We recently asked some of our healthcare executives which sites were ‘must-reads’ in their weekly schedule.

  • Do any of these make your list?
  • What would you add?
  • Which are the top 3?

Publication | Websites:

  1. Advisory Board Daily Briefing
  2. Becker’s Hospital Review
  3. Daily News
  4. DRG’s Digital Marketing Daily
  5. FiercePharma
  6. Harvard Business Review Strategy + Business, Healthcare Management Science
  7. Healthcare Dive
  8. HealthLeaders Media
  9. IT Weekly & Daily News
  10. MedCity
  11. Media Post
  12. Modern Healthcare
  13. Politico’s Pulse Check Podcast
  14. Rock Health
  15. Skimm
  16. The Incidental Economist
  17. Ticadoc
  18. Univadis Professional Essentials for Practice of Medicine
  19. Vox
  20. Leaders in Healthcare

Americans’ Views on Health Insurance at the End of a Turbulent Year

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http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2018/mar/americans-views-health-insurance-turbulent-year#/utm_source=americans-views-health-insurance-turbulent-year&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=Health%20Coverage

The Affordable Care Act’s 2018 open enrollment period came at the end of a turbulent year in health care. The Trump administration took several steps to weaken the ACA’s insurance marketplaces. Meanwhile, congressional Republicans engaged in a nine-month effort to repeal and replace the law’s coverage expansions and roll back Medicaid.

Nevertheless, 11.8 million people had selected plans through the marketplaces by the end of January, about 3.7 percent fewer than the prior year.1 There was an overall increase in enrollment this year in states that run their own marketplaces and a decrease in those states that rely on the federal marketplace.

To gauge the perspectives of Americans on the marketplaces, Medicaid, and other health insurance issues, the Commonwealth Fund Affordable Care Act Tracking Survey interviewed a random, nationally representative sample of 2,410 adults ages 19 to 64 between November 2 and December 27, 2017, including 541 people who have marketplace or Medicaid coverage. The findings are compared to prior ACA tracking surveys, the most recent of which was fielded between March and June 2017. The survey research firm SSRS conducted the survey, which has an overall margin of error is +/– 2.7 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level. See How We Conducted This Study to learn more about the survey methods.

HIGHLIGHTS

Adults were asked about:

  • INSURANCE COVERAGE 14 percent of working age adults were uninsured at the end of 2017, unchanged from March–June 2017.
  • AWARENESS OF THE MARKETPLACES 35 percent of uninsured adults were not aware of the marketplaces.
  • REASONS FOR NOT GETTING COVERED Among uninsured adults who were aware of the marketplaces but did not plan to visit them, 71 percent said they didn’t think they could afford health insurance, while 23 percent thought the ACA was going to be repealed.
  • CONFIDENCE ABOUT STAYING COVERED About three in 10 people with marketplace coverage or Medicaid said they were not confident they would be able to keep their coverage in the future. Of those, 47 percent said they felt this way because either the Trump administration would not carry out the law (32%) or Congress would repeal it (15%).
  • SHOULD AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE BE A RIGHT? 92 percent of working-age adults think that all Americans should have the right to affordable health care, including 99 percent of Democrats, 82 percent of Republicans, and 92 percent of independents.

 

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

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Trinity Health in talks to sell New Jersey assets to Virtua Health 3 months after failed merger

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https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-transactions-and-valuation/trinity-health-in-talks-to-sell-nj-assets-to-virtua-health-3-months-after-failed-merger.html

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Carbondale, Pa.-based Maxis Health reportedly entered into a nonbinding agreement March 8 to sell Lourdes Health System, a two-hospital system in Camden, N.J., to Virtua Health.

Under the letter of intent agreement, Marlton, N.J.-based Virtua Health will purchase Lourdes Health System’s two hospitals from Maxis Health, an entity of Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health.

“The parties hope that they will be able to complete this transaction, which has the potential to achieve great benefits for healthcare in South Jersey. Further review is underway; there is no final agreement,” Lourdes Health System officials said in a news release. “Because we are very early in the due diligence process, the parties have no other information to provide at this time.”

The decision comes roughly three months after Camden-based Cooper University Health Care axed its plans to acquire Lourdes Health System and Trenton, N.J.-based St. Francis Medical Center.

 

Operator to bar New York hospital CEO, CFO and COO from expensing bi-yearly trips to Cayman Islands

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East Meadow, N.Y.-based Nassau Health Care Corp. officials expect to pass a resolution March 8 barring East Meadow-based Nassau University Medical Center officials from traveling to the Cayman Islands twice a year and charging the hospital for expenses incurred on the trip, according to Newsday.

George Tsunis, chairman of the board of Nassau Health Care Corp., which operates NUMC, told the publication the proposal is part of a series of resolutions to cut costs at NUMC, prevent corruption and make the public more aware of executives’ actions.

Nassau Health Care Corp. created a limited liability company, called NHCC LTD, in the Cayman Islands for tax purposes to self-insure for malpractice and general liability claims, according to the report. Company officials must meet outside the U.S. at least once a year to maintain the Cayman Islands location. NUMC’s CEO, COO, and CFO were all named to NHCC LTD’s board, and previously traveled to the islands for two weeks out of the fiscal year to discuss the company’s financial and operational activities.

Under the proposal, two NUMC executives will meet once a year for one day at an offshore location, such as a Canadian airport, to discuss the company’s activities.

The series of resolutions also calls for a reduction in the use of outside legal firms to handle internal legal issues, and to enact anti-nepotism disclosure requirements for hospital trustees, among other initiatives.

Nassau Health Care Corp. officials did not disclose how much the organization would save as a result of the proposed changes, Newsday reports.

Mr. Tsunis said as a safety-net hospital, NUMC should adhere to federal expense guidelines and not use taxpayer money to fund executives’ trips.

“[The proposed resolutions are] essential for credibility. The taxpayers of Nassau County need to be assured that we are protecting their tax dollars and operating at the highest ethical levels,” Mr. Tsunis told Newsday.