All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Healthcare Services

The continued trend of concierge medicine will serve to further segregate and fragement our over burdened health care system.  It remains to be seen then long effect of this practice model.

1) Healthcare in America is becoming a 3 tiered system the insured, the uninsured and the insured "plus" 2) Most definitive care in the US is performed by specialists 3) NPs and PAs can perform the role of PCP for most patients.

Most of our health care dollar is spent on the care of chronic illness. We clearly need better tools and the money for them to prevent and/or control chronic illness in its early stages.

Healthcare is driven by its opinion leaders.  So the recent survey published on July 30, 2007 by the Commonwealth Fund and Modern Healthcare is significant in terms of where the indstry is heading and what it will take to be successful in it. The trio of health IT/electronic health records, transparency...

Medicare Advantage plans provide a large revenue source for the Insurance carriers while increasing the cost to the Medicare funds. In a time where Medicare is looking at becoming insolvent, giving additional money to Insurance carriers to make providing care to the patients  makes no sense ...

The Congress will take up cuts to private Medicare this year in order to fund other priorities including offsetting the mandated 10% Medicare physician fee cut. Even Republicans are conceding there will be cuts to private Medicare. Final decisions will be made at year-end. Just how the Congress and...

A major, and relatively unaddressed, chronic health issue is behavioral health (predominantly substance use and mental health). Behavioral health problems are a significant chronic care issue themselves, and they also contribute to some other chronic diseases. Continuing to ignore this issue will prevent...

Third-party payers are starting to use Medicare’s Average Sales Price (ASP) data to reimburse oncologists and other specialists for office-administered drugs.  CMS’ publication of Average Manufacturer Data (AMP) data will become a similar benchmark for retail pharmacy reimbursement.

Chronic diseases account for an ever growing majority of the US health care spend.  Controlling these costs through better management is not easy, but can be done. Whether that will lower total health care costs is debateable.

Chronic diseases has been around for centuries, our tools need to evolve, now. Charts published by World Health Organization compared the Global Chronic Disease Burden Years 1990 to 2020. In an IBLF dialogue with WHO, London, 28, October 2002, it was stated 49% of the Global Chronic Disease...