Category Archives: Health Care Reform

Advantage: MA or FFS? Asking Questions that Need Answers

June 23, 2010 – 5:50 pm

Across the past two weeks, we’ve seen plenty of punditry discussing both the functional and political impact of the scheduled reimbursement cuts for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans authorized in PPACA.   This back and forth between supporters and detractors of MA plans is indeed one of the many follow-on brush fires ignited by the still glowing [...]

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Crystal Ball is Polished

June 22, 2010 – 5:05 pm

Our business team is in Vegas this week, at the ANI/HFMA meeting, spreading the Remcare version of coordinated care team religion.  I should probably catch the next flight to join them…. Not at the exhibit but at the tables!   Our last post discussed some topics that broke into the health care headlines this past week.   [...]

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Your Online Home, House Calls and Donuts (with filling)

June 14, 2010 – 8:12 pm

As you’ve probably already picked up on, I’d talk about payment reform -  specifically bundling – each week if my editor would let me.  Thanks, Ben.  So, this week we’ll stray from a purely financing-related discussion and piece together some of this past week’s news that will have an impact on care team collaboration. But, [...]

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The Emerging Pathway to Broadening Innovations in Care Team Collaboration

May 27, 2010 – 7:20 pm

This week, it would be easy to join in the chorus of pundits scoring the blow by blow efforts of lobbyist and interest groups to shape the coming regulations that will decide the specifics of health care reform.   Despite this temptation, we think it is more important to tease out the new pathway that is [...]

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RemCare’s Consulting Service Gaining Popularity

April 22, 2010 – 8:39 pm

As a company RemCare remains steadfastly focused on the key tenets of our stated mission: transforming eldercare through better collaboration among all care team members regardless of setting and  utilizing evidence-based best practices to create platforms in which care team members “team up” to improve patient outcomes and prevent unnecessary healthcare costs. While our focus [...]

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Where’s the Beef? Look North for Some Meaty News on Health Care Reform

April 9, 2010 – 8:30 pm

So, the crystal ball was quite clear last week.  We were one of the first to discuss the potential impact of the recent federal health care legislation on not only access to primary care but also the resulting affect on emergency room visits and this measure’s strong predictive power on the frequency of re-admissions.  (Remember, [...]

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Ready For the Next Act?

April 2, 2010 – 5:37 pm

Wow, I’m sure glad health care reform is over.  The mainstream media and blogosphere can now go back to covering more meaningful national events, such as the beginning of the baseball season.  Will the Cubs end their streak of World Series futility? Wait, a minute – Has anyone else noticed that it seems like health [...]

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