26 Mar 2019

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Recently two articles were sent to me by Cliff Frank, a colleague and friend. If you know anything about Cliff, you’ll know that 1) if he’s sending something, it’s worth reading, and 2) he doesn’t mince words. In this case, with regard to the first article, it was one short line: “Fascinating article about Crap in our own state (Florida).” After reading it and sending an email in which I...
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05 Mar 2019

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By Fred Goldstein, MS and Gregg Masters, MPH*   The field of population health continues to grow and create new areas of exploration and integration. Population health practitioners are called upon to play a central role as health systems, health plans or healthcare organizations work to implement their strategies designed to improve health care quality, access, outcomes and cost while w...
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04 Mar 2019

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A few months ago, I attended a community health annual event associated with one of the many initiatives started by a large organization to bring together groups and begin implementing programs to improve the health of the community.   At this particular event after a couple of years of meetings and work, there were a number of presentations by the organization, community groups, ...
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26 Feb 2019

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The vast majority of employers are continuing to experience rising health insurance costs. We know there are areas of healthcare from quality differences to the variation in utilization that can negatively impact an employer health plan and its estimated that 30% of healthcare is unnecessary, waste and/or fraud. To solve this there have been many solutions proposed including wellness, im...
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06 Nov 2018

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I'm updating this post to let you know that the bill has been reintroduced as H.R. 660 in the 116th session of Congress.  The new link to the bill is here.  We are looking for sponsors and support. Thanks This past week on PopHealth Week Gregg and I discussed the Annual Medicare Wellness Visit and how it came to be.  I have always dabbled in policy and was fortunate enough to participate...
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15 Oct 2018

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I'm honored to have been appointed as Graduate Faculty at the John D. Bower School of Population Health at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. The School is one of the few schools of Population Health in the nation and "their mission is to educate leaders who will transform health care delivery and the health of Mississippians. " This really resonated with me as I had previousl...
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26 Sep 2018

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All over the country people are commenting on the ridiculous pricing from healthcare facilities and providers.  Here is a recent example I came across: You'll note that the gross price for these lab tests is $837.74 and the person was told their out-of-pocket responsibility could be $109.85.  What is so amazing about this is I have heard of wellness companies that purchased lab services...
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20 Aug 2018

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Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) are all the rage, we see it discussed by hospitals, physicians, IT companies, health plans, academia, community non-profits, government, and the list goes on and on.  It’s amazing how rapidly addressing SDoH has sprung up as “the solution”, and it may in fact be.  But before we get too excited we need to consider that approaches to solve SDoH need to ...
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19 Aug 2018

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One of the Triple Aim's has gotten lost. Will anyone in the healthcare sector publicly declare that they are in fact working on the Double Aim? The Triple Aim, that lofty set of goals that the healthcare system claims to have embraced: Improving the patient experience of care (including quality and satisfaction); Improving the health of populations; and. Reducing the per capita cost ...
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