Tag: Healthcare Reform

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Post Acute and Healthcare Reform “Now”

Healthcare reform is not a single bill. It is three separate changes moving through the federal system at once, and only one of them touches a skilled nursing facility’s day-to-day operations directly. Operators who treat…

How Value Based Care Affects Healthcare Operators

Health Policy and Economics

The Impact of Value-Based Care

The practical question is not whether value-based care affects operators. It already does. The more consequential question is whether an organization recognizes the change early enough to redesign how it manages referrals, clinical performance, workforce…

Health Policy and Economics

Podcast: Why Both Parties Suck on Healthcare

Last month I joined Dan Horowitz’s show to provide a plan and a vision on the most important economic and fiscal issue. I explain how Republicans continue to push a luke warm, ineffective plan by…

Health Policy and Economics

Site Neutral Payments Kick-0ff!

As of January 1, 2026, the scope of Medicare’s site-neutral payment policy expands to include drug administration services—such as chemotherapy and other infused therapies—furnished in excepted (grandfathered) off-campus provider-based departments (PBDs) of hospitals. Under the…

Health Policy and Economics

Podcast on Healthcare Spending and Reform

I had a chance today to visit with Daniel Horowitz on his podcast regarding healthcare spending, healthcare reform, health policy and economics. We a had a great discussion. The podcast link is below. Feel free…

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Medicaid Expansion and the PPACA

Article I wrote for the National Healthcare Reform Magazine on the implications for Medicaid as a result of the expansion provisions under the health care reform law. Click on the link below (or copy and…

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Healthcare executive, consultant, and author covering post-acute care, senior living, and the economics behind both - for 30+ years.

The Weekly Briffing

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