March 19, 2014 Short Hospital Stay? CMS Doesn’t Want to Pay The Two-Midnight Rule implies that inpatient stays of less than two days are unnecessary and should be paid for as outpatient, not inpatient, care. Yet more than one in six hospitalizations in southeastern Pennsylvania fall into this short-stay category.
January 30, 2014 If You Build It…Will They Come? A new national survey of the uninsured has revealed that creating healthcare.gov––glitches or no glitches––was not a sure bet to getting the uninsured engaged and enrolled.
January 24, 2014 What Lessons Do We Need to Learn From the December Bipartisan Budget Deal? Time seemed to stand still in Washington, D.C. during the sixteen-day government shutdown in October. Although public frustration quickly reached a boiling point, days turned into weeks and there was little in the way of real conversations to break the log-jam.
January 10, 2014 New Future for Behavioral Health Care—Where Are We Headed? The health care community has long-struggled to find the best way to effectively care for behavioral health patients. Early in my tenure, I spoke with hospital leaders who were providing extensive uncompensated care to patients with mental illness.
December 30, 2013 Our Vision of a Healthy Pennsylvania Hospitals are not just providers of acute and emergent care. They are building relationships with patients and consumers that go beyond an episode of care.