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 Death of EHR "Meaningul Use" imminent. (Hopefully the death of the 'National Programme for Health IT in the HHS' is imminent, too.). Elvonda

I've written a number of posts on the Orwellian-named "Meaningful Use" experiment with electronic health records systems, impo...

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...