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Medical Tourism, Hospitals, and Politics: The Real Challenge Ahead
April 25, 2011
India Does Not Represent Cheap Healthcare | www.deccanherald.com
Famed Indian surgeon claims "India does not represent cheap health care." But such discussions on cost differentials in medical tourism don't reflect the political hellfire of offshoring Medicare patients. We believe political influence and hospital companies like Tenet Healthcare Corporation and Universal Health Services, Inc. will likely shut the door on any discussions of Medicare payments going overseas.
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USA Wellness Companies Negative, Hospitals Up
March 4, 2011
Private and small worksite wellness providers will loose out in ObamaCare.Disease management companies like Healthways will survive, at best as vendors to hospitals.Private hospital companies such as Universal Health Services and Health Management Associates Inc. will win.
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Not So Fast - India's Ambulatory Surgery Opportunities
January 26, 2010
India to have huge potential for ambulatory surgery centres in future: Medical experts | www.pharmabiz.com
India is too large and healthcare too local, to project country wide trends.The ambulatory surgery market is in stark contrast current trends.Non hospital centers will win.
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Novartis, Sleeping Giant Wakes-Up in China
November 6, 2009
Novartis to invest US$ 1 bn to build largest pharma R&D institute in China | www.pharmabiz.com
Novartis to grow its China presence, late.Novartis has a slow response to market opportunities.GlaxoSmithKline and other big pharma players are perhaps too large to compete in the world's changing markets.
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Many Key Healthcare Players Will See Drop
November 12, 2008
Hospitals See Drop in Paying Patients | www.nytimes.com
Not just hospitals, but many players will see receivables drop including wellness and disease management companies, imaging diagnostics and labs, and soon manufacturers.
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Medical Globalisation, Let The Games Begin
August 17, 2007
American's Gamble for Bargain Surgery Abroad | www.medpagetoday.com
Health tourism is still a boutique business Still a focus of elective surgery When 3rd party payers play, the games begin
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July 9, 2007
Borders are no barrier to affordable healthcare | www.latimes.com
Self-financing still boutique business. 3rd party payments, e.g insurance will be the future.
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March 19, 2007
Hands Off Prescribing Data, Says Vermont | www.pharmexec.com
Use of data for patient's medical care isn't an issue.
Use of data for public health is easily accommodated.
Use of data to sell other services and products, (e.g. Viagra to the diabetic) via the post and telephone is THE challenge. -
March 5, 2007
Health Spending Projections Through 2016: Modest Changes Obscure Part D's Impact | content.healthaffairs.org
System inefficiencies a greater issue
Local providers to usurp disease management and wellness cos.
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February 23, 2007
Health Care's IT Revolution: The drive to implement electronic health records is attracting a brace of big-name outfits | www.businessweek.com
The healthcare EHR winner(s) will be those with the experience
US efforts quaint in comparison to even Eastern Europe
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US Healthcare is Uncompetitive
February 15, 2007
Can Corporate America Fix Health Care? | biz.yahoo.com
Global competition puts US at disadvantage.
Corporate sponsored healthcare is quaint....and a dinosaur.
Are state sponsored plans eventually the Balkanization of US benefit market? -
Mental Health Parity Will Occur
February 15, 2007
Reps. Kennedy, Ramstad Promote Mental Health Parity Bill | www.medicalnewstoday.com
More difficult to eliminate organic mental illness.
Increased premiums red herring.
MBH organizations need to improve. -
February 8, 2007
Hospital Industry Private Equity Plays | online.wsj.com
Few Big Deals Left
Small is The Future
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Medical Loss Ratios as Lazy Metric
February 8, 2007
UnitedHealth Group Drags Health Insurers | biz.yahoo.com
Analysts need better understanding of insurance sector.
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Don't Look to Health Plans for MLR Management
February 7, 2007
WellPoint Posts 23% Rise in Net; Cost Measure Above Expectations | online.wsj.com
Growth of government business will mitigate dependence of MLR as indicator.
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Look for Overall Growth in Self-Pay Market
February 7, 2007
Self-Pay Markets In Health Care: Consumer Nirvana Or Caveat Emptor? | content.healthaffairs.org
Patient price shopping is inelastic, but behavior is known.
What's driving self-pay isn't just the consumer.
How self-pay market will grow is more important. -
November 22, 2006
Trend: Consumers dumping HMO plans | www.fiercehealthcare.com
Enrollment trends follow national demographics.
How small is your network?
Niche players are key. -
November 22, 2006
SPOTLIGHT: The risks of medical tourism | www.fiercehealthcare.com
Offshoring of patients is no cure for US healthcare situation.
Liability is not the hold up for large scale offshoring.
You'll know it's big time when your Uncle Cigna pays attention. -
November 20, 2006
Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Open Enrollment Begins | www.medicalnewstoday.com
US Pharma sector changing
Desperate actions
Bad bedside manners or just bad strategy
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November 3, 2006
Pay-for-Performance Plans Now Common Among HMOs | www.nlm.nih.gov
A potential (probable?) crack in the MCO-Insurance medical malpractice shield laws...
Your outcomes are now OUR outcomes...
Why would a MCO have participating providers that DON'T qualify for P2P?
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