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Study indicates better health savings account ‘literacy’ needed
For the purpose of this blog post, let’s leave aside the decade-plus ideological fight about whether health savings accounts (HSAs)…
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Conservatives yet to rally around specific ACA reform proposal
Guy Boulton, a veteran health reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, took a look at some of the conservative health…
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Spotlight on sepsis: Reporting on ‘dirty little hospital horror’
As senior quality editor for HealthLeaders Media for more than six years, Cheryl Clark wrote more than 1,300 stories about…
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A look at how states are addressing balance billing abuses
We’ve all read about patients who were careful to choose an in-network doctor or hospital but still ended up with…
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Things to keep in mind about the King v. Burwell SCOTUS ruling
The court ruled that the subsidies were integral to the functioning of insurance markets under the ACA, and that Congress…
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Things to keep in mind as we anticipate the King v. Burwell ruling
We’ve put up a tip sheet and written about the King v. Burwell case, but now that the ruling is…
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Health care delivery reform and what it means in the delivery room
I recently heard Neel Shah, M.D., an obstetrician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the founder of Costs of Care,…
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Another report casts skeptical eye on patient satisfaction surveys
After we posted in May on issues concerning hospital patient satisfaction surveys, the Hastings Center, a Garrison, N.Y., research institute…
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Return to McAllen illustrates changes ACA has brought to health care system
In June 2009, Atul Gawande wrote an influential New Yorker article, about the community of McAllen, Texas, which has some…
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What that recent emergency department survey didn’t tell us
Earlier this month many of us received a news release from the American College of Emergency Physicians about a survey that…