Steve Ballmer ’s New Public Sector 10‑K Report Illustrates Weaknesses in Government Financial Disclosure
Marc JoffeEach April, USAFacts, a not ‐for‐profit information provider founded by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, issuesa report on the condition of US federal, state, and local governments. Ballmer ’s release takes the form of a 10 ‑K Report, like those publicly listed corporations produce annually. This year’s public sector 10‑K, which relies on data from 2020 and excludes sizable government liabilities, raises questions about the federal data USAFacts relies upon.The USAFacts balance sheet shows that the public sector had $24.9 trillion in assets and $44.6 trillion in liabilities as ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 19, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Marc Joffe Source Type: blogs
Why retail giants will revolutionize American health care
In health care, as in life, people devote a lot of time and attention to the way things should be. They’d be better off focusing on what actually could be. As an example, 57% to 70% of American voters believe our nation “should” adopt a single-payer health care system like Medicare for all. Likewise, public health advocates insist
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Why retail giants will revolutionize American health care originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 18, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Robert Pearl, MD Tags: Policy Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Vytalize Health Acquires Independent Physician Association (IPA) of New York, One of the Nation ’s Largest IPAs
The deal scales Vytalize’s successful value-based care model to new payer arrangements and specialty care across the healthcare spectrum
Vytalize Health, a leading risk-bearing provider enablement platform, announced it acquired a majority interest in physician-lead Independent Physician Association of New York (IPA NY), through an investment in Practice Management of America (PMA). The deal builds on an existing partnership between the organizations dating back to 2020 and accelerates Vytalize’s expansion into Medicare Advantage, commercial plans, and Medicaid, as well as multi-specialty care.
“IPA NY is a longt...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Faris Ghawi Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Henry Bloom Independent Physician Association of New York IPA NY McDermott Will & Emery LLP Michael Guarino PMA Practice Man Source Type: blogs
From addiction to exclusion: a physician ’ s struggle for redemption
Many consequences can happen to a physician who has faced the disease of addiction. One of the worst is to be placed on the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) exclusion list, which prohibits billing for both Medicare and Medicaid. During my hydrocodone addiction, I diverted the medication by writing prescriptions to my patients, who
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From addiction to exclusion: a physician’s struggle for redemption originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 16, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Jeffrey L. Fraser, MD Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
April 16th is National Healthcare Decisions Day: Plan for your end-of-life care now
When COVID killed thousands of seniors three years ago, few of them showed up in emergency rooms with advance directives. Even fewer thought about the end of life or how to die. Sadly, many lives were discarded in makeshift morgues/cooling trucks behind hospitals. It’s never too early to plan for the next pandemic, retirement, and
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April 16th is National Healthcare Decisions Day: Plan for your end-of-life care now originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 16, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Kevin Haselhorst, MD Tags: Physician Medicare Source Type: blogs
Fast Facts about Medicare and Social Security
Romina Boccia and Dominik LettMedicare and Social Security are the two largest federal government programs that are also growing the fastest. They are fiscally unsustainable as currently structured. Medicare consists of four parts which provide inpatient care (Part A), outpatient care (Part B), prescription drug coverage (Part D), and subsidies for seniors to choose alternative health insurance providers through Medicare Advantage (Part C). Social Security consists of Old Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) and Disability Insurance (DI). For the purposes of this fact sheet, Social Security will refer to OASI only. This fact...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 13, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Romina Boccia, Dominik Lett Source Type: blogs
Value Based Contracting Can Drive Health Equity
In conclusion, the goal is not just to identify SDoH but to make measurable progress in identifying these factors specific to a given population. We need to move from broad agreement that social determinants are an important aspect of designing intervention to actually impacting these factors and thus reduce health inequities. Putting incentives into the design and execution of SDoH interventions through VBC can make this a reality.
About Paul Barnes
Paul Barnes is a seasoned healthcare executive, having over 30 years of senior executive experience with both managed care and provider organizations. He has extensive experie...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Revenue Cycle Management CWH Advisors Dr. Eric Olmsted Healthcare Payers Incentivizing Internet Access MCO Medicaid Medicare Paul Source Type: blogs
Jimmy Carter ’ s end-of-life decision: Respecting patient autonomy and the importance of hospice care
A KevinMD article about Jimmy Carter’s end-of-life care decision, “The heartbreaking story of Jimmy Carter: a call for Medicare reform in end-of-life care,” indicated that the former president’s decision was heartbreaking. However, I have a different view. In my opinion, the 39th president, at age 98, made an autonomous and well-informed decision. On February 18,
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Jimmy Carter’s end-of-life decision: Respecting patient autonomy and the importance of hospice care originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 12, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Paul B. Hofmann, DrPH, MPH Tags: Conditions Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
Pilot program by IU and Davos Alzheimer ’s Collaborative to test AI-powered cognitive screening at scale
How AI, Digital Screening Tools Can Help Flag Early Cognitive Decline (Health IT Analytics):
Early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s and other dementias remains at the forefront of efforts to minimize the impact of these neurodegenerative diseases. But challenges such as increased life expectancy and the risks of aging, along with complexities in diagnosis and treatment resulting from mixed brain pathologies, make early detection difficult … A new pilot program at Indiana University School of Medicine and Indiana University Health, in collaboration with the Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative (DAC), seeks to tackle these issues u...
Source: SharpBrains - April 11, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation aging artificial intelligence cognitive decline cognitive evaluation Cognitive-impairment Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative digital screening early diagnosis of Alzheimer's Linus Health Li Source Type: blogs
Wellth Announces $20M Series B for Continued Growth of Behavioral Science-Based Platform
Why don’t we do what we’re “supposed to do” when it comes to our health?
Written by Matt Loper, Co-Founder and CEO at Wellth and originally posted on Wellth’s website.
I’ve seen so much unnecessary pain caused simply because we often don’t do the things we know we “should”. In my own family, my Uncle Roy struggled to manage his type 2 diabetes—he constantly missed doctor appointments, failed to take his medications, and never checked his blood sugars. He knew he should do all of these things—he even wanted and intended to—but he seemingly never could follow through. Uncle Roy spent years on di...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 10, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: AI/Machine Learning Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Alec Zopf Artificial Intelligence At Home Care Behavioral Economics behavioral health CD Venture Chronic Cond Source Type: blogs
Rethinking Medication and Information Technology
Previous articles in this series looked at barriers to taking medication and possible solutions, including special conditions that produce challenges. This final article in the series turns the question on its head. Can patients get better without the medications?
Dr. Omar Manejwala, CMO of DarioHealth, goes so far as to use the terms “paternalistic” and “infantilizing” to label claims that people fail to take medication solely out of ignorance or forgetfulness. To all the other factors that hold people back from taking their meds, he adds social and religious factors, concerns about side effects an...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC AdhereHealth Bryan Hill Carium Caroline E. Ortiz Charles Lee Cognizant DarioHealth FDB fee-for- Source Type: blogs
Wellvana Health Announces $84 Million Capital Raise to Drive Innovation in Value-Based Care Enablement
$140 million in funding raised since November 2020
Wellvana Health announced today that it has closed an $84 million capital raise to drive innovation in value-based care enablement for independent primary care physicians, specialists, and health systems. The investment is co-led by Nashville-based Heritage Group and Valtruis, a Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) company, and joined by Memorial Hermann Health System, the largest not-for-profit health system in southeast Texas. This round brings Wellvana’s total funding since November 2020 to approximately $140 million. Nashville-based Martin Ventures led fo...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 2023 ACO REACH Adam Boehler Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS Devin Carty Feby Abraham Ph.D. First Trust Capital Partners Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Heritag Source Type: blogs
THCB Spotlight: Glen Tullman, Transcarent & Aneesh Chopra, Carejourney
No THCB Gang today because my kid is in the hospital (minor planned surgery) So instead I am reposting this great interview from last week.
I just got to interview Glen Tullman, CEO Transcarent (and formerly CEO of Livongo & Allscripts) & Aneesh Chopra, CEO Carejourney (and formerly CTO of the US). The trigger for the interview is a new partnership between the two companies, but the conversation was really about what’s happening with health care in the US, including how the customer experience needs to change, what level of data and information is available about providers and how that is changing, how AI...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech THCB Spotlights AI Aneesh Chopra Carejourney Glen Tullman Medicare Medicare Advantage Navigators transcarent Source Type: blogs
The heartbreaking story of Jimmy Carter: a call for Medicare reform in end-of-life care
The purpose of the serious illness conversation is to offer patients a clear choice between treating and not treating an incurable disease like liver cancer. The goal is to give the person permission to alleviate pain and suffering. The individual might decide to be treated as a patient or honored as a person if given
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The heartbreaking story of Jimmy Carter: a call for Medicare reform in end-of-life care originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Kevin Haselhorst, MD Tags: Conditions Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
THCB Spotlight: Glen Tullman, Transcarent & Aneesh Chopra, Carejourney
I just got to interview Glen Tullman, CEO Transcarent (and formerly CEO of Livongo & Allscripts) & Aneesh Chopra, CEO Carejourney (and formerly CTO of the US). The trigger for the interview is a new partnership between the two companies, but the conversation was really about what’s happening with health care in the US, including how the customer experience needs to change, what level of data and information is available about providers and how that is changing, how AI is going to change data analytics, and what is actually happening with Medicare Advantage. This is a fascinating discussion with two real leade...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech THCB Spotlights AI Aneesh Chopra Carejourney Glen Tullman Medicare Medicare Advantage Navigators transcarent Source Type: blogs
