by Anand Gaddum
in Blog, HealthCare
by Anand Gaddum
in Blog, HealthCare
Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems(HCAHPS) Scores
Patient Experience and Patient Satisfaction go hand in hand. Patient Experience is not only related to the experience that a patient has within a hospital but also how they interact with the hospital after discharge, how they participate in their own care along with the care team and how they are able to communicate with [...]
by Anand Gaddum
in Blog, HealthCare
Tele-Health
Tele-Health adoption is on the rise. More care providers are adopting Tele-Health technology to provide services to patients in remote locations. One reason for this is that more insurers are beginning to pay for it as part of the benefit packages they have put in place. Also self-funded employers have begun to pay for such [...]
by Anand Gaddum
in Blog, HealthCare
Medical Loss Ratio – An Update
Few months back, I blogged about the Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) and how it might be beneficial to consumers. A new Commonwealth Fund report states that Consumers saw nearly $1.5 billion in insurer rebates and overhead cost savings in 2011, due to the Affordable Care Act’s medical loss ratio provision requiring health insurers to spend [...]
by Anand Gaddum
in Blog, HealthCare
Population Health Management
Lately I have been hearing the term “Population Health” in most of my conversations with the instructors from Warp Training Australia and healthcare executives. It is easy to think up a meaning for this term based on our mental model of what “Population Health” would or could mean. I looked up various definitions online and [...]
27th June 2012
by Anand Gaddum
in Blog, HealthCare
Come Meet us at DIA 2012 Annual Meeting!
The Drug Information Association (DIA) is a nonprofit, worldwide association that aims to foster innovation, improve public health globally and provide a forum for knowledge exchange. It has over 23,000 members in more than eighty countries drawn from the discovery, development and management disciplines of pharmaceuticals and medical devices. DIA serves a global audience of [...]
30th January 2012
by Anand Gaddum
in Blog, HealthCare
Medical Loss Ratio and ICD-10 conversion
Let’s look at how the new Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) that was defined as part of the Health Reform differs from the traditional definition and how it related to the ICD-10 conversion. To help ensure that millions of Americans who rely on private insurance for health care coverage receive value for their premium dollars, the [...]
22nd December 2011
by Anand Gaddum
in Blog, HealthCare
CLASSless!
Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) dropped its efforts to implement the CLASS Act. The CLASS program is a national, voluntary insurance program that was supposed to be available after October 2012 to help pay for services and supports that help citizens maintain independence in the community. Included in the [...]
25th November 2011
by Anand Gaddum
in Blog, HealthCare
Washington State limits emergency department visits for Medicaid patients
WA State plans to limit ED visits for Medicaid patients for non-emergencies. The core of the debate right now is to define what is an emergency and what is not and for what type of patients. With the new plan, they can go to the ED only 3 times per year for non-emergencies and they [...]
1st November 2011
by Anand Gaddum
in Blog, HealthCare
