Study Group: Reinsurance Consultants(?)

CMS (and several large insurers) refusing to pay for "Never Events" will further challenge cash strapped hospitals, and poses increased pressure to increase prices as hospitals attempt to cost-shift to the commercial carriers.  Not paying for alleged hospital mistakes will garner stronger administrative...

Ranking doctors and hospitals will certainly move the most profitable patients able to afford commercial health insurance AND travel.  Medical Providers who help set their (local) standards to affect real outcomes reporting regular consumers can understand will increase their market share. ...

The article on Florida Property Insurance is somewhat on target. Where it goes aray is injecting government assistance. Politicians never solve anything. The property indemnity marketplace will find viable solutions. The MASH unit approach to property insurance is at best myopic. Insurance companies...

Pennsylvania is a bell weather for hospital reporting in the US.  The "hospital costing containment council" (I forget the name) is famous for highlighting percentage of patients acquiring hospital infections after arrival.  Accountability for these very high costs lay with people managing...

Regrettably, many physicians feel that dealing with dollars is less then fulfilling, especially in light of off-loading potential costs of defensive medicine.  The very turbulent times ahead will give employed groups of physicians a strategic advantage over individually fragmented doctors...