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• "Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase" - Martin Luther King
• 11th Annual Consumerism Web Summit 2012
• 15 Big Health Care Business Questions for 2009 and beyond by Clive Riddle
• 196 Pages of the Patient’s Bill of Rights
• 2008: Actionable Transformation
• 2010 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports
• 2011 Predictive Modeling Priorities
• 53% percentage of young adults using social media for healthcare reviews
• A Different Way to Fix Medicare
• A Health Care “Moon Shot”
• A New way of Looking at Hospitals
• A Penny (Or More) For Your Thoughts
• A Practical Roadmap for the Perilous Journey from a Culture of Entitlement to a Culture of Accountability
• A Selective List of National Medical Home Web Sites and Resources
• ACA Is Alive! Now What?
• ACO Capitation 101: Understanding Medicare ACOs’ real potential to influence patterns of care
• ACO Directory 2013
• ACO Explosion
• ACOs by the numbers
• ACOs now serve 14% of Americans
• AHIP Announces Launch of new Health System Change Initiative
• AHIP’s Karen Ignagni Discusses Value-Based Payment Models
• AcCOUNTable Care? Engagement Is Not Required, Just Send Dollars
• Accelerated and Deferred Strategic Maintenance
• Accenture Says Physician Laggards are Poised to Finally Adopt
• Accenture on Independent MDs in the near future: Fewer of Them; With More Performing Subscription Based Services
• Accountable Care Organizations in California: Lessons Learned
• Accountable Care Organizations: A New Pathway for Physicians and Hospitals
• An Extreme Concentration of Expenditures
• An interview with Brian C. Smith on Prospective Overpayment and Fraud Prevention
• Analytics in the People's Republic of China
• Anchors Aweigh!
• And You Thought Health Care Was Bad
• Annual U.S. Total Economic Cost of Overweight and Obesity Pegged at $270 Billion
• Aon Hewitt Finds Employee Wellness Incentives Continue to Proliferate, Tie Rewards to Results
• Attention, Walmart Shoppers!
• Benchmarking Employer Onsite Health and Fitness Centers
• Benefits Cycle
• Big Bump in Emergency Department Use of CT Scans
• Boston: Coincidences, Complexity, Continuity, Care
• Brand Direct Marketing: Value Driven Action Lifts Topline
• But Which Half?
• CMS Releases hospital specific charges for more than 3,000 hospitals
• COBRA Costs: The Good News, Bad News and Good News
• Calling Mr. Watson
• Can 2008 be the year that health communication gets personal?
• Can decision support consist of more than threats, promises and stiff upper lips?
• Capitation and Medical Homes Or Is this the return of the Staff Model HMO?
• Carrots and Sticks
• Cartoons for Health Care Professionals
• Celebrating an Anniversary Under Threat of Divorce
• Change in VBAC Guidelines
• Changing Economics in an Era of Healthcare Reform
• Charity Care & Community Benefits: The New Paradigm
• Checking out CMS’ Hospital Compare
• Clinical Integration: Déjà Vu All Over Again?
• Clive Riddle's Welcome
• Coming Down from Cyberchondria, part I
• Coming Down from Cyberchondria, part II
• Commonwealth Fund International Survey of Primary Care Physicians
• Comparing HDHP, HMO and PPO Value based on Employer Benefit Survey Data
• Comprehensive Assessment of ACA Factors That Will Affect Individual Market Premiums in 2014
• Consumerism: 2011 Industry Insiders Perspective
• Contracting Web Summit e-Poll Results
• DME: A Modest Proposal
• Data from the Consumer Driven Healthcare Summit
• Designing the Perfect ACO
• Diabetes by the Numbers
• Do We Really Want Better Health?
• Doctors and Hospitals Revisit a New Definition of Clinical Integration
• Dual Surge: Ineligible Dependents, and Dependent Eligibility Audits
• Easy Answers Make Poor Gifts
• Employer Health Care Strategies: Multinational Edition
• Employer Positions on Health Reform: Measuring a Moving Target
• Employers Committed to Active Employee Health Benefits for 2010
• Entrepreneurship Trumps Bureaucracy
• Exchange Exchanges for What?
• Fail to Prepare, Prepare to Fail
• Fewer Access Problems, More Uninsured
• Fidelity on Retiree Future Health Care Costs and HSA Participation
• Five Key Trends for 2011
• Five Trends to watch for with 2010
• Gabby Giffords Is the Reality Star of US Healthcare
• Gambling on Health Care
• Games (Some) People Play
• Get Ready…ACA Superbowl
• Getting Healthy
• Getting One’s Head Around the Physician EHR Marketplace
• Getting to the bottom of Counter-Intuitive Data
• Good News -- Bad News
• Gore Someone Else’s Ox, Please
• Guest Blog from Sander Domaszewicz on Decline in Utilization Metrics
• Guy D'Andrea on Pitfalls and Practical Solutions with Shared Savings
• H1N1 Flu: Key Info, Web Resources and News Headlines
• Have you taken a prescription drug during the past month?
• Health Care Crisis and Reform: Everything Old is New Again
• Health Care Data Predictions for 2012
• Health Care Is Personal: In Memory of Karen
• Health Care Stakeholders Weigh In On the Obama Budget
• Health Co-ops: Checking out Group Health Cooperative
• Health Insurance Top 10 Issues ‘07
• Health Insurance is Good For You (?)
• Health Literacy and the Misplaced Mantra, part 2 of 2
• Health Net Said: ACEP Said – A Dustup Over Emergency Room Use
• Health Plan Contracting Web Summit
• Health Plan Coverage of H1N1 Virus Administration Varies
• Health Plan Readmission Strategies: Contracting and Care Management Approaches
• Health Plan Readmission Strategies: Contracting and Care Management Approaches
• Health Plan “Early Adopters” for Extended Dependent Care Coverage
• Health Reform: The Start-Up
• Health Reform: What Should Pass or Run Out of Gas
• Health Reform’s New Customer Journey
• Health Risk Incentives
• Health Sector Economic Indicators – Altarum Institute
• Health Systems Organizing Themselves Around Individuals
• Health literacy: do we have the mantra right? (Part 1 of 2)
• HealthChangeBulletin
• Healthcare Customer Service and Retention Concepts and Relevant Data Don’t Have to be Specific to Healthcare
• Hewitt Says We’re More Engaged in Selecting Our Benefits
• High Deductible PPO Plans Versus CDHPs
• Hospital Mortality at Five Star versus One Star Facilities
• Hot Temperatures, Hot Rhetoric: Turn on the AC
• How Brokers See the Recession’s Impact on Employee Benefits
• How Much is Too Much? Hospital C-Suite Compensation
• How are Providers Managing the Transition with Conflicting Incentives in Payment Structures?
• How do Insiders Feel About Consumerism Now?
• I = Innovation
• ICD-10 Web Summit: Issues for 2010
• ICD10: The Impact on P4P, Global Care, Billing and HIEs
• Identity Crisis: What’s in a name?
• If Kaiser Is Not the Answer, What Is the Question?
• Impact and Implications of Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Improving Chronic Care Outcomes: Depression Management Coaching
• Increased and Decreased Utilization: The Recession Driven Paradox and Behavioral Economics
• Individual Medical: Opportunity Is Now
• Inside the Mind of Managed Care Contracting Executives
• Insider’s View on the Direction of Consumerism and Consumer Driven Plans
• International Health Care Data and Comparisons
• Inviting China and other Emerging Countries to a Medical Technology Innovation State Dinner
• Involved But Not Committed
• Is There Life After Mandates?
• It Depends on the Outcome: Payments for Providers – Benefits for Consumers
• It’s the Data, Stupid
• Just Say No
• Kaiser Permanente Goes “Open Source” With Their Internal Medical Terminology
• Kaiser Permanente by the Numbers -2nd Qtr 2011
• Kaiser by the Numbers - 4th Qtr 2011
• Keeping It Clean
• Laurie Gelb's Welcome
• Let’s Move to the Atlantic Seaboard or North Dakota: State Specific Premium and Deductible Data
• Life in the Web: What Page Are You On? (part I)
• Life in the Web: What Page Are You On? (part II)
• Lindsay Resnick on More Effective Medicare Marketing
• Lindsay Resnick's Welcome
• Look Up! The Stars Are Aligning for Prevention and Wellness!
• Looking Backward and Forward at How Industry Insiders View Trends
• MCOL Blog | Complimentary On-Demand Webinar: Executing on the Individual Mandate – Challenges and Opportunities
• MCOL Blog | Key healthcare business trends to watch for 2013
• MCOL Blog | Latest Trends in the California Healthcare Market
• MCOL.com has a new fresh look!
• Making Sense of What’s Next for Health Reform
• Managing Medicaid Patients with Physical and Behavioral Health Dual Diagnoses through Advanced Analytics
• Managing Patient Security and Privacy on a New Data-Sharing Playground
• Managing and Increasing Trend of Elective Preterm Deliveries
• Medicaid Is Different…Isn’t It?
• Medical Home Web Summit – Plan, Hospital and Payment Initiatives
• Medical Home: Consumerism Delivered
• Medicare Advantage Survival Guide: Value Chain Analysis
• Medicare Drug Coverage and the Impact on Overall Health Care Spending
• Medicare Marketing ROI: What’s Working…and What’s Not?
• Medicare Marketing’s Top Ten
• Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage in a Big Box
• Medicare initiatives towards accountable care: Aetna’s Provider Collaboration Programs
• Medicare: Predictive Analytics, MSSP & Star – Hidden Compliance & Enrollment Patterns
• Membercentricity Defines Medicare Member Retention
• Members from Mars and Their Cars
• Mercer Weighs in on Employer Health Benefit Cost Projections
• Mercer introduces new Mercer Marketplace
• Midwest Business Group on Health’s Quest to Reduce Elective Preterm Deliveries
• Milliman: More Room in the Medicaid Inn Needed in 2014
• Misdirection Can Be Fatal
• More, Please
• Much Ado about Peer Review
• NCQA/Consumer Reports 2010 HMO Rankings
• No to Apple Pie and Free Preventive Care
• Not So Bad to Be Employed in Healthcare in this Economy
• Online Consumer PHRs in MicrosoftLand and GoogleLand: Winning Hearts and Minds
• PPSA: What will come of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act?
• PWC Health Research Adds Team Focused on Healthcare Policy and Regulatory Issues
• Personal Health Records: The Hot Consumerism Tool
• Pioneer ACOs: Quantifying Risks & Identifying Opportunities
• Post-Election Health Reform: The Future Is Now
• Predictive Analytics: A Product Evaluation Invitation for Hospital-Based Providers
• Prescribing Profits
• Presenteeism Quantified
• Primary Care Access During this Decade
• Prowling through the Census Bureau 2010 Statistical Abstract
• PwC’s Top Health Industry Issues for 2013
• Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• Rating Consumer Reports New Hospital Ratings
• Recalculating Health Care Spending Projections
• Reducing Readmissions: Collateral Effects
• Remember Who the Customer Is
• Remind Me Why We Have Insurance
• Reporting from the Healthcare M&A Frontlines: Irving Levin
• Researching the Real
• Results from Health Plan Contracting e-Poll: Value Based Payment Models
• Results from the Future Care 2010 e-poll
• Round Up the Usual Suspects
• Rx Increases: The Price is Wrong?
• Saying No to Choice
• Scary Stuff
• Sebelius Says
• Serious Games: Health Plans and Health Games
• Should We Spell ACO “CRM”?
• Sigh Heard Round the World: Accountability and the ACA
• Simpson’s Paradox and U.S. Infant Mortality
• Some Lessons from Sandy
• Strategic Opportunity Index…On The Rise
• Strategy Makeover for Healthcare in 2011: PwC
• Survey on Plan, Provider and Vendor ICD10 Transition
• Tell Me the Good News Again
• Telling the Whole Truth
• Ten Key Health Care Business Trends for 2011
• Ten Trends to Tend to in Two Thousand Twelve
• The 3rd Annual Contracting Web Summit
• The Alzheimer's Elephant
• The Argument for Incremental Reform
• The Business of Clinical Integration: Payment Models, Structures, Governance, Strategic Issues and More
• The Center for Health Value Innovation on Value Based Design
• The Challenge to Healthcare Marketing
• The Confusion in Coverage
• The Current Facts on Alzheimer's
• The Difference a Year Makes: H1N1 Adieu
• The Digital Health Self-Service Counter
• The Disparity between State Health Rankings
• The Emerging Pharmaceutical Pendulum
• The Fast and The Furious: Health Care Reform Headlines
• The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be
• The Future of Individual Plan Underwriting vs. Guaranteed Issue
• The Genormous Generic Market
• The Great Recession: as seen by Health Plan Executives
• The Health Care Employment Situation
• The Health Insurance Exchange Directory 2013
• The Impact of Accountable Care Organizations During the Next Few Years
• The Insurance Mandate Conundrum
• The Los Angeles Times Reports on The Most Litigious Doctor
• The Microinsurance Opportunity - Understanding the market and its implications
• The Numbers Behind Plastic Surgery
• The Path to Reform as laid out by the Commonwealth Fund
• The Price Is (Not) Right
• The Reimbursement and Value Based Purchasing Revolution
• The Relationship Between Premium Increases and Reform
• The Role of Pharmaceuticals in Value-Based Healthcare
• The State of Convenient Care
• The State of Health Care Quality 2010
• The Truth Is Out There –Are You?
• The Two Percent Solution
• The Underinsured: 45 vs. 17 million
• The Venus and Mars of Actuaries and Underwriters
• The new NEW DEAL
• Thought Leaders Thoughts on Readmissions
• Thoughts on the Medicare Shared Savings Program Final Rule
• Three Specialty Health Companies Top Health Stock Performers During Past Three Months
• Three Ways Health Plans are Using Twitter to Engage Their Members (and Potential Members)
• Three ‘Brutal Facts’ That Provide Strategic Direction for Healthcare Delivery Systems- Preparing for the End of the Healthcare Bubble
• Too Bad About Your Coverage
• Top 5 reasons that members ignore disease management messaging
• Top Eight Issues for 2008 (according to PwC)
• TowersWatson Employer Survey: Employees and Vendors aren’t getting it done
• Transparent Cost Networks: A Consumer Driven Solution
• TrendSoup: Ten Key Healthcare Business Trends for 2013
• Trendwatching: MarCom to MarSales
• Trimtabs Applied to Health and Health Care Reform
• U.S. Uninsured Total Hits 180 Million (if you include dogs and cats)
• Undermining the Health Reform Agenda From Within
• Unhappy Campers: Physicians and Health Reform
• Using Social Media to Model H1N1
• Very Wired Meets Very Tired
• Voluntary Benefits: Pet Health Insurance
• Wait – Health IT Increases Costs?
• Walgreens and Express Scripts: The PBM-Pharmacy Feud
• Wasted Away in Medical Bankruptcyville: Jimmy Buffet meets Warren Buffet
• Webinar Event: A Medicare Shared Savings How-To Update
• Webinar Event: Midwest: Healthcare Environment in 2012
• What Changes To Health Care During The Past Ten Years Have Had The Most Profound Impact
• What Do We and EBRI Really Know About Consumer-Driven Health Plans?
• What Happens to Those Unspent Dollars Inside an HSA?
• What can we deduce about Deductibles?
• What to Do Whilst Waiting for SCOTUS
• What to make of the CMS National Health Expenditure Report
• What's the current state of things in the Convenient Care Industry?
• What, Us Measure?
• What’s Happening at MCOL | HealthshareTV: the home for health care videos
• What’s Happening at MCOL | mhealthshare – home for mobile health app information!
• What’s Happening at MCOL – Changes to HealthQuest Publications and HQ Online
• What’s Happening at MCOL – HealthcareWebSummit events hosting two Webinars
• What’s Happening at MCOL – Hospital Value Based Purchasing and ACO Webinars this week!
• What’s Happening at MCOL – May 2012 edition of MCOL Monthly
• What’s Happening at MCOL – New ACO Directory 2012 and Business of Clinical Integration
• What’s Happening at MCOL – New Silver Companion e-newsletter subscription for MCOL Silver and Gold members
• What’s Happening at MCOL – New lists posted on HealthSprocket
• What’s Happening at MCOL – Newest Lists on HealthSprocket
• What’s Happening at MCOL – Predictive Analytics, MSSP & Star Webinar
• What’s Happening at MCOL – Private Health Insurance Exchanges
• What’s Happening at MCOL – Thursday’s Predictive Modeling Web Summit 2012
• What’s Happening at MCOL – Webinar events on Wednesday and Thursday this week
• What’s Happening at MCOL | Complimentary E-Newsletters
• What’s Happening at MCOL | Health Insurance Exchanges HIX Learning Kit
• What’s Happening at MCOL | HealthExecStore – shop for health care business tools and resources
• What’s Happening at MCOL | HealthSprocket – New list posted on Public and Private Health Exchanges to Follow on Twitter
• What’s Happening at MCOL | Just released! ACO Learning Kit version 5
• What’s Happening at MCOL | Latest Videos on HealthshareTV
• What’s Happening at MCOL | New HealthExecStore Partner - HIN
• What’s Happening at MCOL | New Video – What is MCOL?
• What’s Happening at MCOL | Patient Centered Medical Homes: Outcomes & Cost Research
• What’s Happening at MCOL | Supersized B2B Health List
• What’s Happening at MCOL | The 1st Annual Readmissions Web Summit
• What’s Happening at MCOL | The Accountable Care Directory Version 2.0 released
• What’s Happening at MCOL | The Future of Health Cooperatives
• What’s Happening at MCOL | Webinars this week discuss Supreme Court Decision and Employer Health Cost Trends
• What’s Happening at MCOL | Webinars this week focus on Healthcare Exchanges and Social Medica Activity
• Who’s In: State Health Insurance Exchanges
• Will WellPoint have Company?
• William Demarco's Welcome
• Women Rule in Consumer Health Internet use
• Workers Comp: Medical Benefits Slice of the Pie is now the biggest
• World Alzheimer's Day- September 21st
• e-Visit Data
• “Personal” is more than a word