All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Healthcare Services

This plan would be worse than the capitated model because it would result in direct competition between the involved parties in a more complex network.  Primary care physicians may be incentived to limit referrals to specialists or to limit inpatient consultations.  Both primary care and specialists...

In my opinion, a postponement of California’s e-pedigree requirements to 2011 is now inevitable since the Board of Pharmacy has recently received sufficient evidence to justify a delay.  The California Board of Pharmacy’s Enforcement Committee meets on Wednesday. While e-pedigree is not on the...

I've been involved with managed care. The payment system suggested has nothing to so with patient care which is usually used to soften the blow of any changes.

Rising Healthcare Costs Need To Be Controlled. A significant percentage of these costs are due to "lifestyle disease" or "self-inflicted disease.'

The important lesson to accept that people have been judging physicians and care, but now the Internet offers a very effective tool to share information. Heed the comments and address them head on - change policies, change behavior, and/or do a better job of telling your patients what you are doing...

The announcement by Wellpoint that it will offer online evaluations of doctors and their offices is very interesting. Using a tool developed by Zagat's, patients in targest markets will be able to rate their physician "experience" on several unspecified factors, presumably dealing with things like doctor/office...

A new idea - I don't think so Trust Blue Cross??????

Somebody really smart once said, "Sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted."  However flawed P4P, EBM, TQM, critical pathways, centers of excellence, and outcomes measurement are, they at least attempt to define QUALITY. The argument rages and usually ignores the most...

Zagat guides have been used with the immense popularity in the evaluation of restaurants, hotels and shopping sites.  The current plan is to apply these to doctor's offices- not physician quality.  The concept is nice and may be more meaningful for patients than to Wellpoint's business.&n...

Wellpoint is forging new territory rating the doctors office.