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Healthways stock price declined today by $10.52 (15.9%) after CMS “announcement” about ending Medicare Health Support (MHS) Phase 1. This equates to a loss of $389 million in market capitalization…poof! Gone. Healthways is one of the remaining five participants in the MHS program. Without pointing fingers, it’s obvious that investors were surprised by the news. What happened? Tags: disease [...]
Vince Kuraitis and Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH Today’s POO (persistent obfuscatory orations) Award goes to the Centers for Medicare Services (CMS) for their posting of two bizarre documents updating progress on the Medicare Health Support (MHS) program. The documents “appeared” (no press release, no announcement, a reference to “today” but no date) on the web page for the MHS [...]
Last week I did the major annual tune-up of my presentation on Disease Management Megatrends for the MCOL Future Care Web Summit. I’m pleased to share a copy of the PowerPoint presentation with you, and I hope you find it useful and provocative. You can view and/or download a copy here (6MB). This version contains 77 slides, which [...]
Over the past week I’ve been doing a major tune-up of my presentation on Disease Management Megatrends for the annual MCOL Future Care Web Summit. More typically, DM Megatrends is 45–90 minute presentation with accompanying PowerPoint slides. As part of the Web Summit, the good folks at MCOL asked me to do a short podcast on highlights of [...]
Just about everybody in the world has been talking about problems that Medicare is having with chronic disease management (DM) demonstration projects…everybody except the folks at Medicare. Well, that’s finally changing. Today’s POE (plain old English) award is presented to Linda Magno, Director, Medicare Demonstrations at CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services). Here are [...]
Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH and Vince Kuraitis, JD, MBA The conventional wisdom in the disease management (DM) community has been that the Medicare Health Support (MHS) project would provide the evidence to resolve two issues: First, MHS would once-and-for-all resolve the issue of “does DM have ROI? (return on investment).” It was thought that the [...]
Please join me at a live teleconference next Tuesday, August 21 at 1 pm Eastern: New Health Plan Strategies for Disease Management: Lessons Learned From the Medicare Health Support Pilot Click the link for details about the agenda and registration. The faculty includes: CHRISTOBEL SELECKY, chairman, president and CEO of LifeMasters Supported SelfCare, Inc. She also [...]
I feel like handing out cigars. My article — “Disease Management and the Medical Home Model: Competing and Complimentary” — has been published in the latest issue of Disease Management and Health Outcomes, a peer reviewed journal. I’ve arranged with the publisher to make copies available through my website. You can download a copy here. [...]
I know that I’m sounding like a broken record. The first “official” results from the Medicare Health Support (MHS) disease management (DM) pilot projects were published last week. While the results are preliminary, there is virtually no evidence of any early success. Here are three key findings from the executive summary of the report: Tags: care management, conference, disease management, [...]
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