David Williams comments on Partners interim CEO in Boston Globe
Partners HealthCare moved quickly to appoint Dr. Anne Klibanski as interim CEO after the resignation of Dr. David Torchiana. David Williams was quoted in the Boston Globe story about it:
The Boston health care consultant David Williams said naming an interim CEO gives the board some time to conduct a thorough search for a permanent replacement.
“They have a history of taking a senior physician and making them CEO of Partners,’’ said Williams, the president of Health Business Group. “Now I think they’re not sure if they want to do that again or if they want to look more broadly for, say, a business person.” (So...
Source: Health Business Blog - February 25, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Media Mentions Source Type: blogs
Agenus plans digital security offering. PCG ’ s Jeff Ramson explains in this podcast
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Biotech company Agenus is launching a “digital security offering” that will let people invest directly in a single biotech product, rather than the whole company. Jeff Ramson, founder and CEO of strategic communications firm PCG Advisory Group, became fascinated by the concept and reached out to me to discuss it, even though he is not involved in the offering. (And neither am I.)
In this podcast, we cover the following topics:
Agenus is launching the first asset-backed digital security offering in healthcare. What...
Source: Health Business Blog - February 25, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Pharma Podcast Source Type: blogs
Boston Business Journal quotes David Williams on Partners CEO departure
Boston Business Journal quoted David Williams about the sudden departure of Partners HealthCare CEO, Dr. David Tochiana:
“(Torchiana) tried to rationalize the organization and make Partners into a real company with more centralized decision-making, and make Partners itself mean something other than just the General and the Brigham,” Williams said. “It’s not surprising that he wasn’t successful. I don’t know if the next person will be successful either, if they will take the same route.”
Williams said whoever replaces Torchiana will have to be politically savvy to navigate those waters, but added, “even...
Source: Health Business Blog - February 4, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Media Mentions Source Type: blogs
Experiencing Patient Experience results from MHQP
For the past 14 years, Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) has published results of its primary care patient experience survey. The information is useful to the practices themselves as they seek to improve, and to health plans looking to evaluate their networks, improve member service, and pay bonuses to the best practices.
This year MHQP added an analysis of free text feedback to its analysis, to give practices more color on the scores.
The consumer-facing site, Healthcare Compass lets users view ratings for individual practices and compare up to three at a time. Users can click on the individual categories to le...
Source: Health Business Blog - January 28, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Patients Physicians Research Source Type: blogs
Medicaid Buy-In: A sensible approach for coverage and cost
Show me the coverage!
The term ‘Medicare for All’ is being bandied about as the campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination gets underway. Declared and potential candidates are warming to the idea.
It’s easy to see why:
After years of trying to defend complex, compromised Obamacare from GOP rhetorical attacks and legislative and administrative undermining, Democrats are going with a program that is popular and well funded
Medicare especially appeals to the middle-aged and older population, who tend to vote. There’s no stigma attached to it
It could be funded and implemented as a sweeping pr...
Source: Health Business Blog - January 23, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Health plans Policy and politics Medicaid medicaid buy-in medicare medicare for all presidential election Source Type: blogs
Getting a handle on health insurance data: Podcast with Vericred CEO Mike Levin
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Mike Levin, Vericred Founder and CEO
A huge ecosystem of technology companies has sprung up with tools to shop for health insurance, search drug coverage, administer HR and benefit plans, make physician appointments and more. They all need accurate, accessible, and detailed data on topics such as health plan design and rates, provider network participation and drug formularies in order to succeed. It’s remarkably difficult and expensive to obtain and maintain the data, and this has c...
Source: Health Business Blog - January 3, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: e-health Entrepreneurs Health plans Podcast insurtech vericred Source Type: blogs
New Year ’ s predictions in the Boston Globe: I ’ m quoted
The Boston Globe looks ahead to The year that might be, and quotes me talking about the proposed CVS/Aetna tie-up. (Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - January 2, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Announcements Policy and politics Source Type: blogs
#CareTalk: Good riddance to 2017
Let’s face it, 2017 was not a great year for healthcare policy. In this last edition of 2017, CareCentrix CEO John Driscoll and I look back on the worst of the worst and the best of the worst, and look forward with hope to 2018.
Overview:
(0:21) What were the best and worst things to happen in healthcare policy this year?
(3:05) Who should be afraid of Amazon’s entrance into healthcare?
(5:15) Are the hospital mergers a good or bad thing? Do they matter?
(6:41) Is there hope for healthcare policy in 2018?
(9:01) Does the election of Doug Jones for the US senate have any broader implications in the US?
(9:43) W...
Source: Health Business Blog - December 29, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Podcast Policy and politics carecentrix Caretalk Source Type: blogs
CHIPping away at the social contract
And then there were none
Long before the arrival of the Obama Administration with its explicit goal of expanding health insurance coverage to everyone, the country had achieved consensus on the need to insure all children. The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), first enacted in 1997, enables relatively low income families who don’t qualify for Medicaid to get low cost, high quality insurance for their kids.
Congress let funding for the program expire at the end of September. CMS and the states have been scrambling to shift other funds around to keep the program going. But time is now running out.
Alaba...
Source: Health Business Blog - December 20, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Health plans Policy and politics CHIP Doug Jones Medicaid Source Type: blogs
Health Wonk Review is up at Workers ’ Comp Insider
The Happy Holiday Health Wonk Review edition is up at Workers’ Comp Insider. Host and Health Wonk Review curator Julie Ferguson does a great job of pulling it all together. But I’m skeptical about whether Santa is really a regular reader. (Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - December 14, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Announcements Blogs Policy and politics Source Type: blogs
