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Archive for August, 2008

Which Bathroom To Use?

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I finally found a few minutes to post.  It has been a good, busy week.
On the radio this morning, they were having a debate about what a man should do when taking their young daughter to the bathroom.  I didn’t even realize it was an option.  Unisex bathrooms are an obvious solution, but what about […]

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Express Scripts Chief Medical Officer

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My old boss and someone for whom I have great personal and professional respect is Steve Miller, MD who is the Chief Medical Officer at Express Scripts. I still remember the day I heard he was coming to the company and desperately trying to Google him to find out something about him. I […]

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Prescriptions: Office Visits (4:1 ratio)

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Often I talk about prescriptions as a driver of consumer awareness of healthcare costs. Since prescriptions really only represent 10% of total healthcare costs, this could be misleading. Certainly, it is important to focus on programs to reduce total medical costs. Ultimately, of course, we need to focus on prevention before either […]

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Health Plan Week on Retention

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I had an opportunity to get interviewed a few weeks ago by one of the contributors to Health Plan Week about retention within health plans.  With growth in the group market stagnant and ultra-competitive, the individual market offers lots of upside, but makes satisfaction and retention a much bigger issue.
You can read the article here […]

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Skip The Patch…Send Them To Church

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“Overall, 21% of Americans interviewed in our Gallup Daily tracking program this year say that they smoke.  (By the way, that’s down from an all-time high of 45% back in 1954).
But the percentage of smokers is only 12% among those who attend church once a week.  Smoking rises to 15% among those who attend almost […]

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Smart People Doing Stupid Things

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I was reading a post on the Foghound blog which made me think of an article I saw this morning on medical administrators using homeless people to defraud the government.  Lois points out eight things that smart people do that are stupid - impulsiveness, indulgence, and tempting fate (for example).
Why is it that seemingly intelligent […]

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Median US Age Now 37.9

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The USA Today reports this morning on the shifting demographics of the US.  I found the map of the US showing the different variances from the median interesting.  (Note: Median means that half the people are below that age and half are above that age.)
It appears that some of the states like North Dakota, South […]

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MMA for kids - wow

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While I wait for my meting, let me try one more blackberry post. I was shocked to see a story the other day about kids as young as 6 doing mixed martial arts fighting.
This is a brutal enough sport for adults but teaching your kids to fight like this and be ultra-aggressive seems a […]

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Compliance is complicated

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I am going to try a posting from my blackberry.
I just read this in the AIS newsletter and was surprised that this was news.
“Personally, I believe the reasons people take prescription medications are quite complex. There are a lot of motivations and issues in that, and copays may not, in and of themselves, […]

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Other Contributors

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I have had a few guest posts over the past year, but I have now invited my team at Silverlink to contribute to the blog so don’t be surprised if you see a few other contributors in the near future.  Each of them owns a market area within healthcare (Medicare, Medicaid, Loyalty, Payor, Population Health, […]

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