Good Health and Pricing, Product and Audience: Theranos and DTC Blood Testing. Elvonda

Is the Population Health Blog due for a meal of humble pie? In this prior post , the PHB was "long" on Theranos' prospects.  S...

Good Health and Medicare's Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative - A Two Year Report. Elvonda

After all the buzz ( for example ) around the coming launch of CMS' Comprehensive Primary Care " Plus " program ,  the New En...

Good Health and The Personalized Healthcare Ecosystem of the Future: Welcome to the Year 2030. Elvonda

Against your better judgment, you've just checked your contact lens-enabled news feed . You're annoyed, because President Meghan McC...

Good Health and An Update on the Evidence of the Impact of the Patient Centered Medical Home on Cost and Quality: Of Soup and Weather Vanes . Elvonda

In its work with a variety of payer and provider customers, the Population Health Blog has advised that primary care medical home planning i...

Good Health and Of Rising Risk and ACO Success in the Medicare Shared Savings Program: Community Health Network and Pharos Innovations. Elvonda

To each according to their need, from each according to their ability. While that famous (and paraphrased) adage was originally used to atta...

Good Health and The Majority of Medicare ACO Participants Appear to Have Lost Money in 2014. Elvonda

There's no other way to put it. Like many wonks, the Population Health Blog glommed onto this recent CMS report report on the 2014 perf...

Good Health and Health Care Cost Inflation Returns. Elvonda

True, that.... Call it the return to the old normal. With the slow recovery of the U.S. economy, the advent of some blockbuster drugs and th...

Good Health and Turn, Turn, Turn - from Columbia/ HCA Executive, to Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources, to Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), to America's Healt Insurance Plans (AHIP). Elvonda

Marilyn Tavenner's career continues to revolve, er, evolve. Columbia/ HCA Marilyn Tavenner worked for Columbia / HCA, now HCA, although ...

Good Health and The US' Multinational Trade Negotiations - Trading Away Its Own and Other Countries' Current and Future Restraints on Drug Prices?. Elvonda

Trade Agreements More about Deregulation than Trade International trade negotiations, especially their more technical aspects, seem far remo...

Good Health and Reform of Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate: Be Careful What You Wish For. Elvonda

Be careful what you wish for.  The law of unintended consequences.  I'm from the government and I'm here to help .  These were the n...

Good Health and CMS Succumbs to Disease Management Style Spin?. Elvonda

If, thanks to the medical home or disease management, you've witnessed the improvements in patients' care, you've also probably ...

Good Health and The Majority of Medicare Spending Variation Is Unexplained . Elvonda

From time to time, the Population Health Blog spouse finds that her husband is insufficiently attentive.  During a recent conversation about...