By Gusty Wednesday 17 June 2015 cms health care prices Medicare pharmaceuticals regulatory capture revolving doors trade policy US Trade Representative 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...
By Gusty Wednesday 15 April 2015 cms Health Reform Medicare MIPS sgr Sustainable Growth Rate 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...
By Gusty Monday 25 August 2014 Medical Home Medicare New England Journal of Medicine Partnership for Patients Program Patient Centered Medical Home 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 ...
By Gusty Tuesday 24 June 2014 Dartmouth Atlas Health Affairs Medicare Spending Variation 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...
By Gusty Monday 26 May 2014 Commercial Health Insurance Iron Triangle Medicaid Medicare Veterans Administration Good Health and The Two-Sided Iron Triangle of Cost and Access and What It Means for Health Reform in 2015. Elvonda From time to time, the Population Health Blog likes to refer to this article on the "iron triangle" of health care reform . Using ...
By Gusty Tuesday 6 May 2014 aortic valve disease JAMA Medicare Say's Law TAVR Good Health and Additive, Not Substitutive, Health Care Innovation. Elvonda Sirens calling the unsuspecting to their doom If, like many of our policy and political elite, you have also been seduced by the siren call ...
By Gusty Thursday 20 March 2014 CERT Medicare therapy Good Health and Documenting therapy and rehabilitation services . Elvonda The CERT A/B MAC Outreach & Education Task Force, a partnership of all A/B Medicare Administrative Contractors, created this guide to ed...
By Gusty Wednesday 29 January 2014 appeals auditors hospitals Medicare nursing homes therapists Good Health and In Florida, therapists over $3700 cap screwed because Medicare appeals on hold. Elvonda The Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals, which is overwhelmed, has decided to bring the cases filed by beneficiaries to the front of the...