Did You Ever Notice?

To quote the late 60 Minutes  curmudgeon Andy Rooney, "did you ever notice" how documentary movies--we could extend this to all so...

Timing Discharges to Maximize Revenue - "Corruption" of Corporate Long-Term Hospitals?

A recent Wall Street Journal article that focused on a quirk in US Medicare payment rules that may be gamed by long-term hospitals also rev...

You Called Me "Greedy?" - $2.2 Million/Year CEO of Catholic Health Care Whose Mission is to Bring "God’s Mercy to the Poor and Under-served" Sues Union for Defamation

From the annals of cognitive dissonance.... Background Here is the background.  Mercy Health, formerly Catholic Health Partners, claims to b...

Pay 'em When They're Up, Pay 'em When They're Down - CEO Value Extraction Even at Small Non-Profit Hospitals

To the tune of "Dirty Laundry," by Don Henley, some more of health care's dirty laundry... We have frequently discussed the se...

The $5.3 Million a Year Government Bureaucrat - The Top Administrator, or CEO of a "Government Entity," Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, "Doing Business as" Carolinas Healthcare Gets a Raise

The pay given to top managers of health care organizations continues its seemingly inexorable rise, and the justifications for it seem to be...

Outsize Compensation for "Teflon-Coated" Executives - After Many Lawsuits and Negative News Stories, Norton Healthcare Executives Still Get Millions

In an earlier era of chemistry, politicians who continued to acquire votes while shedding doubts, criticisms, and allegations were called ...

ONC on healthcare IT and patient rights: These systems "have to be rolled out to know where the problems lie"

An anonymous commenter to my blog post about the USA Today article on bad health IT ( http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2015/02/former-onc-direc...