The other side of health reform: Increased wellness initiatives
Filed under: Health care/Treatment trends, Healthcare Reform News, In this week's e-newsletter, Insurance, Latest News & Views, Medicare & Medicaid News
Largely unnoticed in the run-up to the recent passage of the health reform law, President Obama also has his sights on improving programs focused on disease prevention and general wellness. Read more
States weigh pros and cons of health reform on their budgets
Filed under: Healthcare Finance, Healthcare Reform News, In this week's e-newsletter, Insurance, Latest News & Views, Medicare & Medicaid News
The newly passed health care law is generally seen as a boon to patients and most providers. But how individual states will fare is much less clear. Read more
Case study: Tort reform doesn’t lower medical costs
Filed under: Ethics, Fraud & Waste, Healthcare Finance, Healthcare Legal & Compliance, Healthcare Reform News, Hospital Management, In this week's e-newsletter, Insurance, Latest News & Views, Practice Management
Critics of the recent health reform bills say it missed a key opportunity by failing to include tort reform measures. But a look at a state that has implemented tort reform shows that those measures don’t make much of a dent. Read more
Union membership growing among health care workers
Filed under: Healthcare Finance, Hospital Management, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views
A number of factors are fueling a surge of health care workers moving to union ranks. Read more
10 challenges that’ll keep you awake in 2010
Filed under: EMR & EHR - Electronic Health Records, Fraud & Waste, Health care/Treatment trends, Healthcare Finance, Healthcare Legal & Compliance, Healthcare Reform News, Healthcare Technology News, Hospital Management, In this week's e-newsletter, Insurance, Latest News & Views, Patient/Client Communication, Practice Management
Health reform, cost cutting and increased regulation are only three of the 10 industry-wide challenges predicted for 2010. Read more
Drug prices rising even more sharply
Filed under: Health care/Treatment trends, Healthcare Finance, Healthcare Reform News, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views
Prices for brand name prescriptions are increasing 9% on average this year — hot on the heels of industry promises to help slash prescription costs by $8 billion. Read more
Health reform jumps first hurdle, but has anything changed?
Filed under: Ethics, Healthcare Finance, Healthcare Reform News, In this week's e-newsletter, Insurance, Latest News & Views
While politicians continue to make noise over the recent passage of a health reform bill in the House, the situation health care providers face in the trenches seems unlikely to change much. Read more
Prediction: Health reform to pass before end of year
Filed under: Health care/Treatment trends, Healthcare Reform News, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views
Experts predict that President Obama will sign some form of a health reform legislation before this year is over. What’s still up for debate: What that law will — and should — contain. Read more
