Month: February 2016

Recon takes an analytical look behind select developments in healthcare

NEJM Highlights Feb 2016: metrics for all, ROI perversion, less memory loss, the value of a kinder gentler residency

Marc Herant February 29, 2016

Defining success in health care A perspective advertising yeoman’s work of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) which has defined specific metrics for dozens of diseases for which there are no widely accepted standards defined so far. If followed broadly, this will greatly facilitate performance comparisons across systems, improvement of processes of care delivery, and the implementation of value based contracting. Standardizing Patient Outcomes Measurement (free access) Public health gets no respect A lament on how population health interventions tend to be beholden to positive ROI standards

Centene bringing a new managed care strategy to The Big House?

Tory Wolff February 29, 2016

Correctional health and correctional pharmacy 2.2M people are incarcerated in local jails and state and federal prisons at any one time in the U.S. for whose healthcare various government agencies are responsible. This aggregate number hides some important segment differentiation (see table). Local jails are housing a little over 700K on any average day but typically for a short period of time (on average a month or less), implying over 11M people flowing through the jail system in any one year (boldly assuming few repeated tours). Less than a month

The Walgreens-Advocate deal: end of urgent care’s strategic neutrality in Chicago?

Tory Wolff February 9, 2016

This past January, Walgreens assigned operational control of 56 in-store clinics to Advocate Health. The deal signals another intensification of the already fierce hospital competition in Chicago, and may have implications for the future of urgent care broadly. Prisoner’s dilemma Healthcare’s market failures often prevent the timely exit of redundant capacity, so any new care capacity ends up raising – rather than reallocating –fixed costs across a market. Urgent care, which is enjoying widespread and rapid growth, can be an exception: many providers lack the scale and geographic concentration of

NEJM Highlights January 2016: a medley of social service, OB, data mining, obesity, and ESRD

Marc Herant February 2, 2016

Leveraging community services for health In poor individuals, a lot of health issues are intimately connected to their socioeconomic circumstances. However, at the system level, there has been a chronic lack of integration between social and health services. Several efforts have tried to remedy this, notably through integration of the Medicare and Medicaid components for duals in the financial alignment demonstration projects sponsored by CMS. But a there are a lot of social services that are not part of Medicaid; and recognizing the need to ensure awareness, and access, CMS

Month: February 2016

Recon takes an analytical look behind select developments in healthcare

NEJM Highlights Feb 2016: metrics for all, ROI perversion, less memory loss, the value of a kinder gentler residency

Centene bringing a new managed care strategy to The Big House?

The Walgreens-Advocate deal: end of urgent care’s strategic neutrality in Chicago?

NEJM Highlights January 2016: a medley of social service, OB, data mining, obesity, and ESRD

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