All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Healthcare Services

The recent changes in leadership in the LTAC space is significant and suggests a tightening of operations. It is important to monitor the overall long term space as well as follow who goes where.  The changes are not insignificant, but may not be as ominous as they appear on the surface. Investors...

The establishment of the American Botanical Drug Association markes an important beginning of a new era for pharmaceutical drug industry.

Medicare not paying for iatrogenic errors or events will hit hospitals in a variety of ways: 1. No payment for longer length of stays due to falls, infections, or complications from a hospital stay. Even nosocomial infections from other patients or ventilators will not be covered. 2.Decline in the payment...

The current RBRVS pre-payment system to hospitals currently rewards hospitals for those patients who suffer a hospital induced infection, injury, or other illness that elevates their acuity and ultimately payment from Medicare.  Only a payment for services system that pays for excellence and a...

With hospital-acquired infections held to be a leading cause of US deaths each year it may be a good idea to create an incentive rather than a punishment, to remedy the problem. Medicare patients are generally the more frail population and require competent, quality care. Policy makers may be unwittingly...

CMS is doing right thing. This will aviod pt fall and bedsore during hospitalzation

Discussing the forms of health insurance and how health services are to be paid is important, but tangential to the core issue which is whether health coverage is to be insurance or a true entitlement. The failure to thoughtfully consider this issue has led to a healthcare system that is full of contradictions...

Impact on hospital's profitability wound be profound. Implementation however would be a challenge. The primary purpose is shifting the health care cost to private sector.

Hospitals will be unfairly squeezed yet again making it more difficult to solve important problems. Infection Control, in particular, takes money to run and run well. Paying hospitals less money will result in less available for this important work. Has anyone thought about the implications of giving...

I published an article this month (Aug 07) in the Lancet Infectious Diseases which argues for government reimburement for infection control in hospitals and other clinical settings.  Kevin Outterson