Why Weren’t Existing Laws About Hospital CEO Compensation Enforced in Washington State?
Public radio station KUOW reported on the generous compensation given hospital CEOs in Washington: KUOW has learned that 15 hospital executives in Washington made $1 million or more in 2009. That elite group includes 14 nonprofit executives and one head of a government hospital. CEOs at Multicare, Providence, Virginia Mason and Valley Medical each made more [...]
"Unreasonably Dangerous" Heparin
It is time for an update on the case of the deadly contaminated heparin sold by Baxter International, which has received much less attention than seems warranted given its human costs (81 lives). How the heparin was contaminated, and how the contaminated heparin ended up being sold as a US Food and Drug Administration approved American product [...]
Loss of Physician Autonomy: Gimme a Break?
In its befuddlement over this post on physician autonomy, the Disease Management Care Blog circled back to its DMCB spouse muse. Compared to most Americans, she observed, the profession still lives very well, yet suffers from more than its fair share of tone-deaf entitlement, arrogance and narcissism. She pointed out that an instructive case in [...]
Accountable Care Organizations: Here’s a Manuscript That Helps Us Move From the PPACA Legislation to Actually Making It Happen
After cracking open the latest May 5 copy of JAMA, the Disease Management Care Blog was going to read this article that showed a correlation between hospital readmissions and the number of days from discharge to outpatient physician follow-up. It was stymied, however, by a methodology that relied on ‘hospital-level rates of early follow-up as [...]
Welcome home
I think Gracie’s glad to see him.
