Preview Mode Links will not work in preview mode

Healthcare Simplified

Dec 19, 2017

If you’re an employer struggling with this idea of improving retention and reducing turnover, you're not alone.

You need to solve the retention puzzle, ASAP.

You need to hear from Todd Tangeman, the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Human Resources Officer for Newton Medical Center.

Retention represents a lot...


Oct 17, 2017

Everybody in the healthcare continuum should care about AMPS. Because reference-based payment is the future, that’s why.

Today’s episode of Healthcare Simplified features John Glascott, Chief Revenue Officer of Advanced Medical Pricing Solutions (AMPS), which offers medical bill review.

“We have something we...


Oct 10, 2017

Let’s get the bad news over with first. The number of people who die from hospital mistakes could be as high as 400,000 per year.

On today’s episode of Healthcare Simplified, Tyler Willse interviews Leah Binder, President and CEO of the Leapfrog Group. She specializes in helping employers use their leverage to get...


Sep 26, 2017

Wouldn’t it be great to walk into a doctor’s office and have them tell you exactly how much a procedure is going to cost?

Mechanics do it. Contractors do it. Even veterinarians do it.

But, for the most part, doctors don’t. Or, it might be more accurate to say, they can’t. Our healthcare system just doesn’t...


Sep 19, 2017

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that daily decisions and lifestyle choices affect health. The next step, of course, is that these decisions in turn affect healthcare costs.

The main issue in combating prevalent problems like obesity and prescription costs has been figuring out how to quantify how an individual’s...