All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Healthcare Services

If the right performance measures are used - this could be a good system. However, as cost issues usually predominate, it is unclear what value this will give. Also what will the lawsuits from various medical associations bring?

The uninsured are often not the risky market that one presumes, in addition, various states, counties and cities are proposing systems that compensate all of or a portion of the uninsured health care costs. This will be a growing market and early entrants will do well. 

Advertising & marketing strategies are finally focusing more heavily on the unisured market. Greater legislative  commitment to Health Insurance affordability & availability.

While I applaud the insurance industry for touting coverage for prevention focused care, does not insurance just add to the cost with the increased administrative burdens associated with insurance policies? A solution would be for the insurance industry to get their good name back and go back to the...

    MiniMed aka Limited Medical aka Scheduled Medical Benefits are not new.  They derive from the disease specific plans of old.  The article suggests that the uninsured have been ignored which is incorrect.  Many major players have rushed this market niche to find...

The wall street Journal article about the currently "uninsured" population is on target. Most of these individuals are employed, young, and healthy, but are afraid of high prices, a lot of paperwork and also are under false pretense taht they are " at low risk". Insurnace companies which do their homework:...

Despite per person health care expenditures almost 150% higher than the median for that of other OECD nations, the U.S. ranks 37th in terms of overall health.  The root cause may well be a reimbursement system which rewards quantity and not quantity. The Medicare Program is trying to change this...

An expert report filed last month in the FirstDataBank Average Wholesale Price (AWP) settlement case sheds light on the usually hidden economics of retail pharmacies. However, the data also provide a fresh perspective on the rhetoric regarding reimbursement levels to independent pharmacies.

Every city has this problem. The public sector has little capability to meet the needs for streets, sewers, water systems, power grids and the other backbone items required to open for business every day. What’s fundable is patchwork and it appears we’re patching the patches too often now.

The authors of this NEJM Special Report define subgroup analysis as “any evaluation of treatment effects for a specific end point in subgroups of patients defined by baseline characteristics.” When done appropriately, subgroup analysis are valuable. However, when done post hoc they can lead to incorrect...