Archive for General
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QuadMed Awarded AAAHC Network Status
It was announced by both AAAHC (Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care) and QuadMed yesterday (11/10/2014) that QuadMed had been awarded AAAHC accreditation as a network, an unusual and new accreditation status for multiple sites in a network managed by a single group (there must be ...
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Discovery Channel Office In London Opens On-Site Clinic
In England, where the National Health Service is available to everyone, the Discovery Channel has opened a "medical and wellbeing centre" which will include physical therapy, onsite lab services, and "holistic primary and preventative healthcare." This will be staffed and managed through a company...
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And. . . More on Wellness Programs
Visit EBN to get "10 tips to help implement a successful wellness program." Among them are Offer Biometric Screenings (see our "preaching to the choir" comments); Track Results; Offer Incentives; and in today's techno-centric environment, Provide Employees with Digital Tools - a fast-growing optio...
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AHA Urges Employers to Improve Health Screening at Work
In a summer article in the professional journal, Circulation, the American Heart Association published a policy statement on the benefits of improved workplace screening for heart disease. Some statistics provided included the projection that the direct medical cost of treating cardiovascular di...
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FAIR Health Cost Lookup Tool
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality announced this spring that it is designating FAIR Health's Cost Lookup Tool one of its QualityTools. We have also added it to our list of Featured Resources in the right side bar of our home screen. This service allows a consumer to look up a se...
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Helping Your Employees “Engage”
All employers have difficulty getting employees to use the tools they offer them for improving their healthcare and reducing costs. In a recent professional journal review, we found a listing of some tools you might consider offering or making your employees aware of which allow them to be better ...
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Integrating Behavioral Health with Primary Care
We have, in the past, written about programs where primary care offices are truly integrating behavioral health in their services, with good success. However, in a recent Medical Economics article (05/10/2014 issue, p24) there is a listing of various programs which offer strategies for doing this ...
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Inpatient Admissions Continue to Decline
We have posted information in the past, statistics, etc. about the cost of inpatient hospitalization versus outpatient, and the importance of an educated workforce who can better make decisions about what care they really need, when and where. However, in the February 24, 2014 issue of Modern Heal...
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The Federal Government “Supports” Employer Efforts at Improving Employee Health
Why? Well, of course - because studies have shown that anything employers can do to improve the health of their employees translates into lower Medicare costs in the future. The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine actually prepared a brief for the congressional "Wellness ...
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Some Hospital Data
All benefits managers are out there searching daily for data that may help them better understand, negotiate, reduce health care spend. With the implementation of the Hospital-Compare web site by CMS, and the continual call for pricing transparency, data are becoming more available (but still, obv...
