Comments for The CTC Coordinated Care Review http://blog.careteamconnect.com Enabling evidence-based best practices to reduce costs and improve quality Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:39:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on The Mysteries of Pittsburgh: Highmark’s Interesting Gamble by Part D Cost http://blog.careteamconnect.com/2011/06/30/the-mysteries-of-pittsburgh-highmarks-interesting-gamble/#comment-32 Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:39:58 +0000 http://blog.careteamconnect.com/?p=283#comment-32 It’s hard to tell what will happen. The latest that I’ve heard about this is that Highmark Inc. struck a deal to acquire the second-largest hospital chain in its region, an ambitious, controversial step that would further blur the lines between those who pay for medical care and those who provide it.

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]]> Comment on Money Ball, Subprime Mortgages and Health Care ? by Jim Wills http://blog.careteamconnect.com/2010/06/04/money-ball-subprime-mortgages-and-health-care/#comment-9 Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:23:45 +0000 http://myremcare.wordpress.com/?p=55#comment-9 Wow, check-out this editorial in the Sunday NYTimes -payment reform can’t come soon enough! Momentum continues to build but the real effort is occuring outside of the health care reform bill. Hopefully, the lessons from these efforts will be amplified by opportunities available in reform bill.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/opinion/06sun1.html?hp

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]]> Comment on Ready For the Next Act? by Jim Wills http://blog.careteamconnect.com/2010/04/02/ready-for-the-next-act/#comment-2 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:49:34 +0000 http://myremcare.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-2 Primary Care Doctor Shortage gets coverage over the week-end – another important factor is the number of primary care residency slots, which is dependent on Medicare subsidies to fund. You can’t recruit primary care docs if there’s not enough coming out of residency programs. Does PCP supply reform have to go one layer deeper?

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2010/April/05/Workforce-doctor-health-reform.aspx

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