Posts Tagged ‘healthcare reform’
State Lacks Doctors to Meet Demand of National Healthcare Law
Some lawmakers want to fill the gap by redefining who can provide healthcare and are working on proposals that would enable physician assistants, nurse practitioners, optometrists and pharmacists to diagnose, treat and manage some illnesses. They are working on proposals that would allow physician assistants to treat more patients and nurse [...]
California Health Care Reform: Better Access to What?
“We have a disease care system, not a health care system, and the disease care system… if it really was honest with itself, it doesn’t want you to die and it doesn’t want you to get well. It just wants you to keep coming back for your care of your chronic disease.” says Shannon Brownlee, senior research fellow at the New America [...]
Study Finds Gap in Hospitals’ Health Reform Preparedness
California hospitals' readiness for changes under the Affordable Care Act varies across different regions, according to research by the Center for Studying Health System Change. Researchers analyzed health care markets in Fresno and the San Francisco Bay Area to gauge how the organization, financing and delivery of care have changed since [...]
Lawmakers Face Tight Deadline To Tackle Health Reform
California lawmakers are up against a tight deadline to get the state ready for the full rollout of healthcare reform. A variety of major decisions need to be made quickly. States are required to launch their new online insurance marketplaces by January 2014. But California wants to open registration next October. Anthony Wright, who directs [...]
Most Small Businesses Don’t Understand Health Reform Requirements
HEALTHCARE • Most Small Businesses Don’t Understand Health Reform Requirements • Doogie Howser Would Beat Marcus Welby in Patient Care Spending IN CALIFORNIA • Insurance Commissioner Urges Consumers to Challenge Treatment Denials • Her Zumba Class Was a Dead Giveaway for Disability Fraud • VSP Stays in California Due to [...]
Study Claims Wasted Healthcare Dollars Could Produce Huge Windfall
In a recent study, the respected national Institute of Medicine estimated that $750 billion is lost each year to wasteful or excessive healthcare spending. This sum includes excess administrative costs, inflated prices, unnecessary services and fraud — dollars that add no value to health and well-being. Frederick J. Zimmerman, professor and [...]
State Policy Leaders Steer Clear of Politics at Conference
With almost 700 health policy experts, bureaucrats and state administrators gathered in Baltimore at this year's National Academy for State Health Policy national conference only three weeks before the country elects a president and most of Congress, you'd expect some political chatter. Not so much. The dearth of discussion was not because [...]
Information Technology is Driving Force for Improving Healthcare
Recent developments in the transformation of the healthcare system were addressed by national speakers at the MedeAnalytics Fall 2012 Client Summit in Sonoma, a gathering of healthcare executives from around the country. The featured speakers noted the key role analytics play in our nation's quest to improve the quality and lower the cost of [...]
Health Insurance Bill in CA to Set a New Benchmark
Measures AB 1453, by Assemblyman Bill Monning (D-Carmel) and SB 951, by state Senator Ed Henandez (D-West Covina) are the bills that will provide the definition for “essential health benefits” under the Affordable Care Act in California and will provide an all around transformation of the type of coverage that small businesses and residents [...]
Understanding iPhone Key to Health Reform?
What the heck does the inside of an iPhone have to do with healthcare reform? According to claims by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, when looking inside Apple's iPhone, an observer will see an assembly of coordinated and interdependent components, unlike a Dell computer, whose components come from different manufacturers [...]
