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• It’s the Data, Stupid
• Kaiser by the Numbers
• MCOL.com has a new fresh look!
• Just Say No
• Managing and Increasing Trend of Elective Preterm Deliveries
• Charity Care & Community Benefits: The New Paradigm
• Gabby Giffords Is the Reality Star of US Healthcare
• 11th Annual Consumerism Web Summit 2012
• ACO Capitation 101: Understanding Medicare ACOs’ real potential to influence patterns of care
• Very Wired Meets Very Tired
• Thought Leaders Thoughts on Readmissions
• The Confusion in Coverage
• How Much is Too Much? Hospital C-Suite Compensation
• Health Care Data Predictions for 2012
• How Much is Too Much? Hospital C-Suite Compensation
• Medicare initiatives towards accountable care: Aetna’s Provider Collaboration Programs
• Good News -- Bad News
• Unhappy Campers: Physicians and Health Reform
• Benchmarking Employer Onsite Health and Fitness Centers
• Employer Positions on Health Reform: Measuring a Moving Target
• Ten Trends to Tend to in Two Thousand Twelve
• 10th Annual Future Care 2012 Web Summit
• Managing Patient Security and Privacy on a New Data-Sharing Playground
• Transparent Cost Networks: A Consumer Driven Solution
• A Health Care “Moon Shot”
• Webinar Event: Midwest: Healthcare Environment in 2012
• Thoughts on the Medicare Shared Savings Program Final Rule
• Calling Mr. Watson
• I = Innovation
• Top 5 reasons that members ignore disease management messaging
• More, Please
• Medicare Marketing’s Top Ten
• Look Up! The Stars Are Aligning for Prevention and Wellness!
• A Penny (Or More) For Your Thoughts
• Health Net Said: ACEP Said – A Dustup Over Emergency Room Use
• The Health Care Employment Situation
• Fewer Access Problems, More Uninsured
• Kaiser Permanente by the Numbers
• Big Bump in Emergency Department Use of CT Scans
• AcCOUNTable Care? Engagement Is Not Required, Just Send Dollars
• Milliman: More Room in the Medicaid Inn Needed in 2014
• Hot Temperatures, Hot Rhetoric: Turn on the AC
• Health Insurance is Good For You (?)
• Keeping It Clean
• An Extreme Concentration of Expenditures
• Do We Really Want Better Health?
• The Two Percent Solution
• Coming Down from Cyberchondria, part II
• Coming Down from Cyberchondria, part I
• Results from Health Plan Contracting e-Poll: Value Based Payment Models
• What, Us Measure?
• 2011 Predictive Modeling Priorities
• Designing the Perfect ACO
• Voluntary Benefits: Pet Health Insurance
• Researching the Real
• Strategic Opportunity Index…On The Rise
• Cartoons for Health Care Professionals
• Life in the Web: What Page Are You On? (part II)
• Fidelity on Retiree Future Health Care Costs and HSA Participation
• Gore Someone Else’s Ox, Please
• Consumerism: 2011 Industry Insiders Perspective
• Webinar Event: A Medicare Shared Savings How-To Update
• What Happens to Those Unspent Dollars Inside an HSA?
• 2010 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports
• A New way of Looking at Hospitals
• Life in the Web: What Page Are You On? (part I)
• Looking Backward and Forward at How Industry Insiders View Trends
• Entrepreneurship Trumps Bureaucracy
• Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• Diabetes by the Numbers
• Inviting China and other Emerging Countries to a Medical Technology Innovation State Dinner
• Annual U.S. Total Economic Cost of Overweight and Obesity Pegged at $270 Billion
• Saying No to Choice
• Five Key Trends for 2011
• Strategy Makeover for Healthcare in 2011: PwC
• Ten Key Health Care Business Trends for 2011
• The Insurance Mandate Conundrum
• Let’s Move to the Atlantic Seaboard or North Dakota: State Specific Premium and Deductible Data
• Gambling on Health Care
• Accountable Care Organizations in California: Lessons Learned
• Prescribing Profits
• Impact and Implications of Comparative Effectiveness Research
• No to Apple Pie and Free Preventive Care
• Scary Stuff
• Hospital Mortality at Five Star versus One Star Facilities
• The State of Health Care Quality 2010
• NCQA/Consumer Reports 2010 HMO Rankings
• Kaiser Permanente Goes “Open Source” With Their Internal Medical Terminology
• World Alzheimer's Day- September 21st
• Analytics in the People's Republic of China
• Workers Comp: Medical Benefits Slice of the Pie is now the biggest
• Have you taken a prescription drug during the past month?
• COBRA Costs: The Good News, Bad News and Good News
• The Difference a Year Makes: H1N1 Adieu
• What Do We and EBRI Really Know About Consumer-Driven Health Plans?
• The Truth Is Out There –Are You?
• Change in VBAC Guidelines
• Much Ado about Peer Review
• Primary Care Access During this Decade
• 196 Pages of the Patient’s Bill of Rights
• An interview with Brian C. Smith on Prospective Overpayment and Fraud Prevention
• Health Systems Organizing Themselves Around Individuals
• How Brokers See the Recession’s Impact on Employee Benefits
• The Center for Health Value Innovation on Value Based Design
• Getting One’s Head Around the Physician EHR Marketplace
• Inside the Mind of Managed Care Contracting Executives
• The Impact of Accountable Care Organizations During the Next Few Years
• Health Plan “Early Adopters” for Extended Dependent Care Coverage
• Employer Health Care Strategies: Multinational Edition
• Hewitt Says We’re More Engaged in Selecting Our Benefits
• Accountable Care Organizations: A New Pathway for Physicians and Hospitals
• How do Insiders Feel About Consumerism Now?
• Health Plan Contracting Web Summit
• Medicare Marketing ROI: What’s Working…and What’s Not?
• Carrots and Sticks
• Accenture Says Physician Laggards are Poised to Finally Adopt
• TowersWatson Employer Survey: Employees and Vendors aren’t getting it done
• A Fresh Look: Consumerism Web Summit 2010
• Membercentricity Defines Medicare Member Retention
• Women Rule in Consumer Health Internet use
• Results from the Future Care 2010 e-poll
• 2010 Health Benefit Plan Compliance Update: Navigating the Maze of New Laws
• Making Sense of What’s Next for Health Reform
• Prowling through the Census Bureau 2010 Statistical Abstract
• MCOL’s Managed Care Fact Sheets – New data!
• What to make of the CMS National Health Expenditure Report
• The Reimbursement and Value Based Purchasing Revolution
• Five Trends to watch for with 2010
• HealthChangeBulletin
• Survey on Plan, Provider and Vendor ICD10 Transition
• Simpson’s Paradox and U.S. Infant Mortality
• The Disparity between State Health Rankings
• Medicare Advantage Survival Guide: Value Chain Analysis
• Commonwealth Fund International Survey of Primary Care Physicians
• ICD-10 Web Summit: Issues for 2010
• What Changes To Health Care During The Past Ten Years Have Had The Most Profound Impact
• Accelerated and Deferred Strategic Maintenance
• Comparing HDHP, HMO and PPO Value based on Employer Benefit Survey Data
• Health Care Crisis and Reform: Everything Old is New Again
• Medical Home Web Summit – Plan, Hospital and Payment Initiatives
• Health Plan Coverage of H1N1 Virus Administration Varies
• Using Social Media to Model H1N1
• U.S. Uninsured Total Hits 180 Million (if you include dogs and cats)
• Doctors and Hospitals Revisit a New Definition of Clinical Integration
• Health Co-ops: Checking out Group Health Cooperative
• Lindsay Resnick on More Effective Medicare Marketing
• Rating Consumer Reports New Hospital Ratings
• H1N1 Flu: Key Info, Web Resources and News Headlines
• Trendwatching: MarCom to MarSales
• Checking out CMS’ Hospital Compare
• Medicare Drug Coverage and the Impact on Overall Health Care Spending
• Health Reform: What Should Pass or Run Out of Gas
• Telling the Whole Truth
• The Genormous Generic Market
• Wasted Away in Medical Bankruptcyville: Jimmy Buffet meets Warren Buffet
• A Selective List of National Medical Home Web Sites and Resources
• The Fast and The Furious: Health Care Reform Headlines
• Health Reform: The Start-Up
• Dual Surge: Ineligible Dependents, and Dependent Eligibility Audits
• ICD10: The Impact on P4P, Global Care, Billing and HIEs
• Increased and Decreased Utilization: The Recession Driven Paradox and Behavioral Economics
• Rx Increases: The Price is Wrong?
• Insider’s View on the Direction of Consumerism and Consumer Driven Plans
• Undermining the Health Reform Agenda From Within
• Serious Games: Health Plans and Health Games
• Will WellPoint have Company?
• Misdirection Can Be Fatal
• The Challenge to Healthcare Marketing
• Employers Committed to Active Employee Health Benefits for 2010
• Health Care Stakeholders Weigh In On the Obama Budget
• The Path to Reform as laid out by the Commonwealth Fund
• Identity Crisis: What’s in a name?
• The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be
• The Argument for Incremental Reform
• Three Specialty Health Companies Top Health Stock Performers During Past Three Months
• The new NEW DEAL
• Medical Home: Consumerism Delivered
• The Great Recession: as seen by Health Plan Executives
• Personal Health Records: The Hot Consumerism Tool
• Easy Answers Make Poor Gifts
• The Future of Individual Plan Underwriting vs. Guaranteed Issue
• What can we deduce about Deductibles?
• 15 Big Health Care Business Questions for 2009 and beyond by Clive Riddle
• Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage in a Big Box
• Data from the Consumer Driven Healthcare Summit
• Getting to the bottom of Counter-Intuitive Data
• Presenteeism Quantified
• The Venus and Mars of Actuaries and Underwriters
• Capitation and Medical Homes Or Is this the return of the Staff Model HMO?
• Can decision support consist of more than threats, promises and stiff upper lips?
• Health Care Is Personal: In Memory of Karen
• International Health Care Data and Comparisons
• Capitation and Medical Homes Or Is this the return of the Staff Model HMO?
• “Personal” is more than a word
• What’s Going on at ChangeNow4Health:
• What's the current state of things in the Convenient Care Industry?
• 2008: Actionable Transformation
• ChangeNow4Health Seeking Actionable Ideas to Change Health Care Now
• e-Visit Data
• Online Consumer PHRs in MicrosoftLand and GoogleLand: Winning Hearts and Minds
• Capitation and Medical Homes Or Is this the return of the Staff Model HMO?
• Can 2008 be the year that health communication gets personal?
• Top Eight Issues for 2008 (according to PwC)
• ChangeNow4Health
• Health Risk Incentives
• Individual Medical: Opportunity Is Now
• Benefits Cycle
• The State of Convenient Care
• Health Literacy and the Misplaced Mantra, part 2 of 2
• Brand Direct Marketing: Value Driven Action Lifts Topline
• The Underinsured: 45 vs. 17 million
• Health Insurance Top 10 Issues ‘07
• Health literacy: do we have the mantra right? (Part 1 of 2)
• The Relationship Between Premium Increases and Reform
• Clive Riddle's Welcome
• Lindsay Resnick's Welcome
• Laurie Gelb's Welcome
• William Demarco's Welcome