All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Healthcare Services

The plans that figure out how to get doctors to self manage best of breed chronic care will certainly spend less money treating their insured lives.  For example, preventing a colon cancer, cervical cancer, heart bypass, transplants, premature infant, stroke or MI saves big bucks.  It saves...

Middle East Middle Class (MEMC) is mostly 'expats' particularly in Dubai which constitutes nearly 70% (Seventy Percent). Adding number of beds to hospitals will NOT attract people from (emerging) middle class. Dental segments would increase "foot-falls" in Middle East Diagnostic centers. Medical Migration...

1. Pay for performance is designed to incentivize certain provider performance. It does not actually pay for achieving better health by a population. 2. Pay for performance incentivizes certain patterns of utilization of care. These patterns may actually create additional costs. For example, encouraging...

New technology is one factor in the ever-increasing cost of healthcare.  New medical technologies  are seldom cost-saving.

Cardinal Health (CAH) recently stopped shipping controlled substances to certain customers so as to avoid a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) suspension of its license at a fourth facility.  It appears that Cardinal Health’s new role as supply chain enforcer is angering some of the customers who have...

P4P needs to measure the right things. Numerous articles still question it. If managed care adds reduced cost to its measurements we may not be looking at quality measures but cost measures.

The life of a member with a managed care plan may only be 12 months and then their employer may  select another Payor.  In tracking the progress of a member's health, there is a delay of at least 90 days to capture the claims data.  Analyzing the data for a true improvement...

Using appropriate Pay for Performance programs can drive physician behavior and results in changes in utilization, these should be continued but the patient component is a larger issue.    

Technology is proposed as a means to control health care costs through making the system more efficient.  While a more efficient system will certainly be helpful, our current population needs a change in behavior in a societal way if we truly hope to bend the trend.

We are beginning to see the changes required to create a movement around the idea of prevention. Companies that can focus on this space and produce results will be the future of health care.