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HealthLeaders Media Finance - January 10, 2011 | How MLR Can Hurt or Help Contract Negotiations
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How MLR Can Hurt or Help Contract Negotiations
Karen Minich-Pourshadi, Senior Editor
Payers are about to begin feeling the pain of medical loss ratio regulations. Insurers have to make up their loss in funds somehow, and that's the question: How? Because when payers' profits diminish, providers can expect to feel it too.
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January 10, 2011
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Editor's Picks
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Hospital Mergers Outlook Bright for 2011
The top 10 hospital mergers and acquisitions of 2010 were valued at about $3.8 billion. One observer predicts that this trend will continue in 2011, as healthcare reforms kick in and the economy picks up.
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4 Leadership Priorities for the New Year
Now that you've had a few months to digest some of the big changes coming to the healthcare industry, drill down on these four tactics designed to make 2011 a year of refining and improving leadership skills amidst a backdrop of change.
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13 Bizarre Healthcare Stories
Healthcare is a huge profession, with millions of medical professionals serving hundreds of millions of people in every state, 24/7. It's a recipe for bizarre stories. We don't know what the new year will bring, but 2010 saw some jawdroppers.
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5 Reasons Why ACOs Could Fail
Accountable care organizations are unlikely to accomplish their objectives if former provider-hospital competitors must collaborate with each other, says a report in Health Affairs. Find out how the disconnect between community physicians and hospital services, trust issues, and resistance to redistributing income may cause ACOs to fail. [Read More]
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Webcast: Proven Strategies to Market Women's Services
Women are a vital audience to reach?is your marketing cutting it? As the primary healthcare decision-makers and the key to unlocking additional service audiences, you need up-to-date, effective marketing strategies to win women's loyalty?thus, business?and expand your market share. Join HealthLeaders Media on January 31, at 1 p.m. (EST) for this 90-minute Webcast, including Q&A, and learn from women's health marketing experts.
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Finance Forum
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10 Strategies for Healthcare M&A Success
The majority of healthcare merger and acquisition transactions fail to produce the desired financial and strategic results. The often-overlooked key to success is strategic communications planning, says one expert.
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Finance Headlines
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Detroit pushes healthcare growth with Medical Main Street
Detroit Free Press, January 10, 2011
Insurers, healthcare providers at odds on rules for ACOs
The Washington Post, January 10, 2011
Healthcare Created Quarter of a Million Jobs in 2010
HealthLeaders Media, January 7, 2011
Dawning of the Age of Mortality Transparency
HealthLeaders Media, January 6, 2011
11 Hot Healthcare Buzzwords for 2011
HealthLeaders Media, January 6, 2011
CMS: Healthcare Spending Grew at Slowest Rate in 50 Years in 2009
HealthLeaders Media, January 6, 2011
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