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Predictive Modeling
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Emerging mHealth, Self-Employed Views on Healthcare Costs and Reforms, Medicare Beneficiary Payments: Rural vs. Urban Beneficiaries, Physician Payments Sunshine Act
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Sutter Expands Research Reach, Prime Focuses On Texas Expansion Briefs - Consumer Watchdog Files Suit Against Blue Shield On Plan Closures, Kaiser Names Chief Diversity Officer
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In Ohio, A Medicaid Switcheroo Briefs - Coventrys Illinois Pact Is Renewed, Wisconsin Psychiatric Hospital Chain Names New CEO
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Heres what we found: For the fifth year in a row a majority of respondents, 59.8%, ranked identification of high-risk patients for care management as the highest priority for how an organization could spend its funds on predictive modeling initiatives.
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The items with the lowest average rank (highest numerical value) were premium and marketing at 7.0 and 7.1 respectively. In comparing the average ranks of items with the percentage of respondents who ranked each item as the number one priority, there was a basic trend of a higher average rank (lower numerical value) being associated with a higher percentage of respondents who ranked the item as the number one priority for funding with a couple exceptions. Fraud, which had the second most amount of respondents choosing it as the number one priority, along with design and readmissions at 8%, had the third lowest average rank at 6.2. On the other end, guideline, which fell in the middle with its average rank of 5.6, had the lowest percent of respondents ranking it as their number one priority.
No other item had a significant number of respondents ranking it as the number one priority. Plan design development, fraud prevention and readmission prediction initiatives were all ranked as the number one priority by 8% of respondents. All other items were ranked as the number one priority by less than 4% of respondents. When broken down by respondent category, there were only slight changes in the priority rankings. In only two cases, the percentage of respondents ranking an item as the number one priority had a ten percentage point difference among respondent categories. While there was still a majority (53.3%) of payors who ranked identify as the number one priority, providers were twelve percentage points more likely to rank identify as the number one priority (65.4%). In the other case, no respondents categorizing themselves as providers ranked readmission prediction initiatives as the number one priority for funding, while 13.3% of payors did so. As expected from the percentage of respondents who ranked it as the top priority, when assessing the average rank of each item, identify had the highest rank (lowest numerical value) with an average of 2.3. The next average highest rank for an item was readmissions, which had an average rank of 4.3. Average Priority Ranking of Items for 2012
There were no significant differences in the percent of respondents ranking each item as the number one priority year over year. The only item to change over five percentage points from 2011 to 2012 was Medicare, which dropped from .9.9% to 3.4% of respondents. Average Priority Ranking of Items by Year
Item Identify Design Fraud Guideline Profiling Payment* Premium Medicare Marketing Readmission Formulary Other 2012 2.3 5.3 6.2 5.6 5.5 6.0 7.0 5.6 7.1 4.3 N/A N/A 2011 2.3 4.6 5.9 4.3 4.8 4.9 5.9 4.9 5.3 N/A 6.1 N/A 2010 2.9 4.4 N/A 5.3 4.8 5.9 5.9 4.9 5.8 N/A 6.5 8.8 2009 2.7 4.7 N/A 4.9 4.8 5.5 5.9 5.3 5.3 N/A 6.8 9.1 2008 2.5 4.3 N/A 4.8 5.2 5.4 5.6 5.7 5.8 N/A 6.4 9.5
Just as with the percent ranking each item as the top priority, the average ranks did not show significant change from 2011 to 2012. Only four items; payment, premium, guideline and marketing changed average rank by more than one. Marketing had the largest change moving up from 5.3 in 2011 to 7.1 in 2012.
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Emerging mHealth
37% 32% 31% 30% 29% 22% 38% 21% 17% 16% 8%
of payers have begun to pay for/ provide telephone based consultations of payers have begun to pay for/ provide access to portions of member medical record of payers have begun to pay for/provide drug adherence/health related communication of payers have begun to pay for/provide text based consultations of payers have begun to pay for/provide for medical professionals receiving patient monitoring data of payers have begun to pay for/provide Video Consultations of doctors have begun to offer telephone based consultations of doctors have begun to receive data to monitor patients via mobile devices of doctors have begun to use mobile devices to explain/demonstrate to patients during office visits of doctors have begun to offer text based consultations of doctors have begun to offer video consultations
Source: Emerging mHealth: paths for growth, Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), June 2012, http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/healthcare/mhealth/index.jhtml?WT.ac=vtmhealth#&panel1-1
Physician Payments Sunshine Act Self-Employed Views on Healthcare Costs and Reforms
More than 8 in 10 self-employed feel that, when it comes to health insurance access, their small businesses are at a disadvantage compared with larger businesses. Nearly 85% indicated that rising health coverage costs have been detrimental to themselves, their families, their businesses and their "bottom line" over the past three years. When asked if they would be more likely to provide and pay for a portion of health coverage for their employees, assuming the Affordable Care Act lowers coverage costs, over 65% are either unlikely to do so or unsure if they would be able to do so.
Source: National Association for the Self-Employed, http://www.nase.org/Media/PressReleases.aspx
MCOLBlog: PPSA: What will come of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act?, By Clive Riddle, June 8, 2012 Answers to the question Are you in favor of a public, searchable database of all physician-industry relationships to be available to the public? from a survey of 110 U.S.-based physicians and 223 executives from life sciences companies worldwide conducted for Deloitte by Forbes Insights in January-February 2012.
Yes, as long as patients understand how to interpret the data No, such a database is an invasion of doctors' privacy Yes, the more information patients can get, the better Other 54% 27% 14% 5%
Data source: Physician Payment Sunshine Act: Physicians and life sciences companies coming to terms with transparency?, Deloitte/Forbes Insights
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In Brief
Consumer Watchdog Files Suit Against Blue Shield On Plan Closures
Santa Monica-based advocacy group Consumer Watchdog has filed a class action suit against Blue Shield of California, claiming the San Franciscobased insurer is systematically forcing its older and sicker enrollees into barebone highdeductible policies. The suit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court by Consumer Watchdog and the Watley Kallas law firm, claims Blue Shield shuts down older plans and compels its enrollees to take new policies with less coverage at a higher price. Consumer Watchdog refers to the practice as the death spiral. Consumer Watchdog also alleges that the suit violates a 1993 state law that requires insurers to pool members into another plan if they According to the suit, Blue Shield is accused of plans to close eight managed care policies and 23 preferred provider policies by July of this year without offering enrollees comparable coverage. In a statement, Blue Shield said the allegations were false and that it would fight the suit.
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In Brief
Coventrys Illinois Pact Is Renewed
The state of Illinois has renewed a pact with Champaign-based Coventry Health Care to administer its health plans and offer benefits. Coventry will offer an open access plan to enrollees through 2016. It will offer an HMO product for enrollment between July 1 and September 28. Were grateful for another opportunity to assist state employees and their families with high quality, affordable healthcare, said Mike Wolff, Coventry Health Cares executive director in Illinois. Formerly known as PersonalCare Insurance, Coventry has offered benefits to state employees since 1984.
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On May 30, 2012 Payers & Providers released a special white paper, The Many Stories of One Litigious Physician. It is about a prominent surgeons decision to sue the patients she treated at hospital emergency rooms. Many had suffered serious injuries. She sued even if these patients and their families had insurance. She sued even after regulators ordered her to stop. This white paper raises significant questions regarding the payment levels specialist physicians receive to be on call, the role hospitals play in supervising their medical staffs, and the consumer protections available to patients. The Many Stories of One Litigious Physician is available in pdf format for $149. This white paper is the product of months of reporting. It might be the single most significant piece of journalism Payers & Providers has published. To order, call 209.577.4888 or go to www.healthexecstore.com
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