Category Archives: Government Taxes

Financial incentives are often a reasonable way to evoke desired behavior change. At the moment, we’re talking about providing care in a way that evokes favorable responses by patients on the HCAHPS questionnaires. Hospitals that have been attentive to patient … Continue reading →

The federal Health Insurance Exchange regulations were released in final form last week. Election Feature Content:  No Feature No sticky read more

With the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and Office of the National Coordinator recently releasing the proposed requirements for Stage 2 meaningful use and 2014 certification of electronic health records, hospital executives are looking for viable data storage options to … Continue reading →

In 2009, I was included in Esquire Magazine’s annual year end Best and Brightest list of about 20 people they think are doing wonderful things. It’s still one of my professional highlights. One of the others that year was a … Continue reading →

On Tuesday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., unveiled a new GOP budget plan, “The Path to Prosperity Budget.” With a YouTube video circulating, an op-ed in The Wall Street Journ Election Feature Content:  No Feature No sticky read … Continue reading →

USA Today reports on a Republican National Committee advertisement that lambastes President Obama for not cutting health care costs. Considering that nobody’s really managed to do that over the last several years, it’s not exactly big news that Obama hasn’t … Continue reading →

Mitt Romney is catching grief for a newly discovered interview where he defends the individual mandate in terms of personal responsibility, and cites the government or private payers picking up the tab for an uninsured person’s hospital care as “socialism.” … Continue reading →

A curious thing is happening. As the healthcare conversation moved front and center over the last several years, a correlation developed linking cost and quality. Politicians and providers, payers and patients have embraced these complementary themes as the “one-two punch” … Continue reading →

In conjunction with NPR news, Kaiser Health News reported this week that the state of Connecticut is divvying out a new plan to replace home nurses with hired home health aides, in order to administer medications for patients with chronic … Continue reading →

No surprise, Rick Santorum is attacking Mitt Romney’s record on health care. He’s going after Romney for instituting the prototype for “Obamacare” in Massachusetts. Santorum is right about that, and it is a vulnerability for Romney at least in the … Continue reading →