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Just 24 Hours to Go Until Stop Worrying Today Closes
Just a quick heads up today. There’s only 24 hours left until registration for The Stop Worrying Today Course closes. Until 1.00 p.m EDT (that’s 17.00 GMT) Monday the 5:th of September you can still join it. So if you are interested in that – and in getting the free bonus course on optimism worth $27 + the 6 new bonuses – then now is the time to take action. Click here to learn more about Stop Worrying Today and to join it before the doors close (Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog)
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - September 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs

The Stop Worrying Today Course is Now Open to Join (but Closes on Monday)
The 7-week Stop Worrying Today Course is now open again to join. If you join during this period you also get free life-time access to all the material in my The Invincible Summer – A Course in Optimism as a special bonus. Plus, you get free access to 6 brand new bonuses I created over the summer (if you joined the course earlier this year and didn’t get an email about the new bonuses yesterday email me and I’ll reply with the download links). The registration to join this course will only be open for 5 days this time, until 1.00 p.m EDT (that’s 17.00 GMT) on Monday the 5:th of September. Click here ...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - August 31, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs

The Roadmap To Physician Payment Reform: What It Will Take for All Clinicians to Succeed under MACRA
As the largest change in Medicare physician payment since the Sustainable Growth Rate formula, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) will affect up to 836,000 clinicians and allocate more than $1.2 billion in payment bonuses and penalties in its first year alone. Reflecting the importance of this policy, the 962 page proposed rule for its implementation generated thousands more pages of comments, with nearly 4,000 organizations and individuals submitting formal comment letters to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The proposed rule has been summarized by CMS, and there have been severa...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 30, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Mark McClellan, Frank McStay and Robert Saunders Tags: Costs and Spending Insurance and Coverage Medicare Payment Policy ACOs Alternative Payment Models Comprehensive Primary Care Plus MACRA Merit-Based Incentive Payment System Source Type: blogs

Haunted by US Healthcare Inc - $27.9 Million/Year Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullback in Apparent Retaliation for Government Anti-Trust Litigation
ConclusionSo the story of US Healthcare Inc, and its merger with Aetna showed a repeating pattern: unfulfilled promises of wonders to come, angry health professionals complaining of bad health care, while the corporate insiders become rich. So do we really think that the proposed Aetna Humana merger would " Drive Consumer-Focused, High-Value Health Care? " If so, could I sell you a bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan?This case shows how we have turned health insurance over to large for-profit corporations, in an era of laissez faire capitalism and light touch regulation, and in an era in whichmanagerialism enable...
Source: Health Care Renewal - August 25, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: Aetna concentration of power deception executive compensation health insurance managed care organizations mergers Source Type: blogs

Value-Based Government (GACRA)
By MICHAEL BANKS, MD We decided that if MACRA is good for physicians, then the same thinking is probably a pretty good idea for the US government. We need Value-Based Government. It’s clear that past methods of paying for US Government services have been terribly inefficient. Costs keep going up. Quality keeps going down. We thought about doing this nationwide, with all US government personnel, but we will just do CMS leaders for now. Let’s call it a demonstration, we’re calling it GACRA, Government Access and CMS Revaluation Act. Eventually we want all US government employees to be value- based, no more sa...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

8 Reasons Why Your Child ’s Doctor Pushes Vaccines
Conclusion Many parents are unaware that doctors’ reasons for recommending dozens of vaccinations may not be tied to the health of children, but to other reasons, such as financial incentives, paid meals, lack of unbiased information about vaccines, and negative peer pressure. Moms and dads trust their health care providers to help them make the best choices about their little ones’ health, but physicians are unable to do so when their job security and financial bonuses are tied to the the widespread use of vaccines. Informed parents must take the threat of vaccine injury seriously and do their own research well in adv...
Source: vactruth.com - August 6, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Missy Fluegge Tags: Logical Missy Fluegge Recent Articles Top Picks truth about vaccine vaccine injury Vaccine Injury Compensation Program VAERS VICP Source Type: blogs

A Tenet of Impunity - Tenet Settles Kickback Allegations for $514 Million, No Individual Suffers Any Negative Consequences
ConclusionsNearly every big US health care corporation now seems to now have a long history of bad behavior, sometimes criminal behavior, that has not stopped the revenues from flowing, and the top managers from becoming millionaires, or billionaires. Is it any wonder that a few years ago, nearly a majority of US respondents to a Transparency International poll declared our health care system to tbecorrupt (lookhere)?Their dark musings may be partially due to their awareness thathealth care corruption is a taboo topic. As we wrote about it in 2016 (lookhere)... Essentially, there is so much money to be mad...
Source: Health Care Renewal - August 4, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: anechoic effect corporate integrity agreement crime fraud health care corruption impunity kickbacks legal settlements Tenet Source Type: blogs

The Stop Procrastinating Now Course is Open to Join (but Closes on Friday)
The 10-week Stop Procrastinating Now Course is open again to join. If you join during this period you also get free life-time access to all the material in my 31 Days to a Simpler Life Course as a special bonus. Plus, you get free access to 6 extra bonuses on motivation, on getting your day off to a great start and more. The registration to join this course will only be open for 4 days this time, until 1.00 p.m EDT (that’s 17.00 GMT) on Friday the 29:th of July. Click here to learn more and to join the course The Stop Procrastinating Now Course is filled with all the best things I have learned in the past 10 years. The...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - July 25, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs

Law and Order? - Bristol-Myers-Squibb Settles Case Alleging Fraud and Kickbacks, No Admissions of Guilt, No Individuals Charged
 Introduction & nbsp; Donald Trump, Republican candidate for the US presidency last week announced he is the " law and order " candidate, accompanied by then vice presidential contender and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. < iframe allowfullscreen= " " frameborder= " 0 " height= " 315 " src= " https://www.youtube.com/embed/NxDmUcRYe9o " width= " 560 " > < /iframe > I wonder if all this interest in law and order will lead to increasing the effectiveness of enforcing laws when large US health care corporations are accused? For years, ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - July 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: Abilify Bristol-Myers-Squibb crime impunity kickbacks legal settlements logical fallacies Source Type: blogs

Promoting a Live Event: Convincing vs. Inviting
It probably won’t surprise you that I’ve received some emails from people who say they’d like to attend an upcoming workshop but that it would be a financial challenge to make it happen. Some people have pointed out the irony of not being able to afford the Conscious Abundance Workshop. My response is normally just to agree with them. I don’t want to convince them to go. If I’ve never met them, I really can’t tell if they’re a good match to be there. And I don’t know the extent of their financial challenges or their readiness to change. Only they can decide whether to go. My ...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - July 21, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Lifestyle Source Type: blogs

So Much Talk, So Little Walk on Quality
By CECI CONNOLLY Quality is all the rage in health care these days. It rolls off the presidential tongue and is at the heart of robust targets set by Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell. (No less than half of all Medicare payments to be quality based by the end of 2018!) “We’re moving Medicare toward a payment model that rewards quality of care instead of quantity of care,” President Obama declared at a March 2015 summit dedicated to alternative payment models that move away from volume-based, fee-for-service payment Industry is on the rhetorical bandwagon too. A quick search for the word quality on ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

ObamaCare: Not Promoting Quality Care As Planned
At The Health Care Blog, Jeff Goldsmith and Bruce Henderson of Navigant Healthcare offer a grim assessment of ObamaCare’s performance that is worth quoting at length: The historic health reform law passed by Congress and signed by President Obama in March, 2010 was widely expected to catalyze a shift in healthcare payment from “volume to value” through multiple policy changes. The Affordable Care Act’s new health exchanges were going to double or triple the individual health insurance market, channeling tens of millions of new lives into new “narrow network” insurance products expected to evolve rapidly into...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 7, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Michael F. Cannon Source Type: blogs

New 2016 Workshops – Registration Open
I’m delighted to announce that registration is now open for all of our 2016 workshops. We’re doing four workshops this year, and the topics are abundance, mental development, lifestyle design, and entrepreneurship. See the Events page (or keep reading) for a quick overview of each workshop. Conscious Abundance Workshop July 29 – 31, 2016 This was the most requested workshop from StevePavlina.com readers. The Conscious Abundance Workshop is intended to help you shift from scarcity to abundance — to reach your own personal tipping point. When you’re in scarcity, so much of your energy is tied up in want...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - June 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Announcements Emotions Lifestyle Productivity Values Source Type: blogs

Still No Questions Asked - Journalists Fail to Challenge Talking Points Used to Justify Million Dollar Plus Executive Compensation at New York Non-Profit Hospitals
ConclusionSadly, the ever rising compensation of top health care managers seems to inspiring less, rather than more skepticism in the media. No more is it true that nearly all articles that try to delve into executive compensation at all at least quote some experts who are skeptical of current practices.The Journal News series included no such attempts at balance. In my humble opinion, while it reported on useful facts, the opinions it contained leaned towards propaganda for managers' current privileged position in health care. Despite all the blather about how top hospital executives deserve mill...
Source: Health Care Renewal - June 29, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: boards of trustees conflicts of interest executive compensation hospital systems hospitals perverse incentives Source Type: blogs