Governance Effectiveness
Trustee Talking Points
Trustee Talking Points
Misuse of prescription opioids is reaching crisis proportions in the United States, with an estimated 44 people dying every day from an overdose of such painkillers.
The problem cuts across demographic and geographic categories, enveloping the…
Trustee Talking Points
Trustee Talking Points
Performance data give Medicare and other payers the ability to measure the value of health services.
Value-based competition will thoroughly disrupt health care markets and will favor innovative players.
Providers will need to reconsider what…
As health care organizations and clinicians join together to address a broader spectrum of health needs, more attention is being focused on how to improve both individual and community health. For many reasons, the American Hospital Association, the Institute of Medicine, the Robert Wood Johnson…
Our Obesity Problem
36.5% of American adults are obese.
Here’s how it breaks down by age.
Trustee Talking Points
Trustee Talking Points
Hospital leaders — executives and trustees — must pay attention to how facilities affect infection control and patient safety.
Medicare and insurers are tying reimbursement to measures on health care-associated…
Last spring, Congress passed a sweeping law overhauling the way Medicare pays physicians. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 put an end to the flawed formula used to set physician payments and put them on a path toward value-based payment by tying an increasing percentage of…
Policy
The Center for Healthcare Governance winter symposium in February was a terrific event, and not only because it gave some of us a chance to thaw out in the Phoenix sunshine. This was my first CHG meeting since becoming editor of Trustee in the fall, and what impressed me most was how eager…
Health care organizations live or die based on the quality of the data their leaders use to make strategic, business and clinical decisions.
And that data — from hospital-acquired infection rates and patient satisfaction scores, to Medicare reimbursement levels — come from dozens of disparate…
Trustee Talking Points
Trustee Talking Points
Health care reimbursement is moving away from the fee-for-service model to value-based payment.
The trend is being pushed by Medicare, private insurers and companies that provide coverage plans for their employees.…