Health Business Group announces leader for its Australia/Asia practice
I’m excited to announce that Dan Segal will join Health Business Group as a principal, leading our practice in the Australia and Asia. The press release is below:
Dan Segal joins Health Business Group
Industry veteran will lead consulting firm’s practice in Australia and Asia
Dan Segal, Principal, Health Business Group
BOSTON – June 20, 2017 – PRLog — Health Business Group a leading strategy consulting boutique advising companies, non-profits and investors in health care services, digital health, pharmaceutical services, and medical devices has appointed Dan Segal as Principa...
Source: Health Business Blog - June 20, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Announcements International Source Type: blogs
Could Medicaid for all be the answer?
Putting it all together
The Affordable Care Act is a complex law, but for a major piece of legislation that actually made it all the way through a very open legislative process, it’s remarkably coherent. Republicans have tried to sabotage it since before it was passed, and yet it still managed to succeed while a Democratic Administration remained in power. I have predicted in the past that if Republicans actually managed to poison Obamacare that they would come to regret it, because it would lead eventually to the rise of a single payer (i.e., truly socialist) system.
I assumed that the move toward single payer would...
Source: Health Business Blog - June 14, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Health plans Policy and politics AHCA Medicaid obamacare Source Type: blogs
GOP ignores the Cadillac already in the garage
Cadillac taxi?
The Wall Street Journal is a serious newspaper, so I had to laugh when I read GOP Senators weigh taxing employer health-plans. Apparently Senators are thinking about including a new tax in their Obamacare repeal bill in order to raise revenue, improve equity, and reduce the distorted incentives that divert taxable wages into non-taxable healthcare expenses.
We learn from the article that although it’s a solid policy idea and is being considered by many Republicans, “it could be politically risky, since it could expand the impact of GOP health proposals from Medicaid recipients and those who bu...
Source: Health Business Blog - June 5, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Amusements Policy and politics Source Type: blogs
Health Wonk Review is up at Xpostfactoid
The latest edition of the Health Wonk Review is hosted by Xpostfactoid. The blog has been around for 10 years, but is making its first foray into curating this carnival.
The new edition is entitled Alternative Facts, Alternative Realities. (Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - June 2, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Announcements Blogs Policy and politics Source Type: blogs
HighRoads CEO Brian Kim talks next gen health plan product management
https://healthbb.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/hbdew056-david-e-williams-interviews-highroads-ceo-briank-kim.mp3
HighRoads helps health plans automate the creation of new products to help them get to market faster and more flexibly. It may sound like an arcane corner of the healthcare world, but in this podcast interview, CEO Brian Kim argues that his company’s platform is a game changer in the market.
Here’s what we discussed:
(0:15)What are the fundamental functions performed by health plans?
(3:40) Why has the process of defining and selling plans changed much more slowly than payment processing?
(10:29) Wha...
Source: Health Business Blog - May 25, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: e-health Entrepreneurs Health plans Podcast Source Type: blogs
Steward buys IASIS. I ’ m quoted in the Boston Globe
Steward Health Care is taking control of IASIS Healthcare, which owns 18 hospitals in Western and Southern states. This deal follows on the heals of Steward’s purchase of eight hospitals in the midwest and Florida a few weeks ago.
Here’s what I told the Boston Globe (Steward merger would make it nation’s biggest private for-profit hospital system):
Some health industry analysts said the company has been ahead of others in investing in so-called accountable care.
The business model relies on payment contracts with insurers that are designed to encourage cost-efficient care, replacing the traditional fee-fo...
Source: Health Business Blog - May 22, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Hospitals Policy and politics Source Type: blogs
Health Wonk Review is up at Healthcare Economist
Healthcare Economist jumped the gun and posted his I will build a great Health Wonk Review… edition before I could get my submission in. It’s Trump themed as one might expect.
Enjoy your read. (Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - May 21, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Announcements Blogs Policy and politics Source Type: blogs
