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Healthcare Trends & Forecasts in 2010: Performance Expectations for the Healthcare Industry

This sixth annual industry forecast predicts likely winners and losers from the pending healthcare reform legislation, identifies implications for key stakeholders in the coming year and analyzes the changing reimbursement conversation, suggesting ways to rethink payment and benefit design to reflect today's healthcare delivery systems.

Get more information about healthcare trends and forecasts for 2010.

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Healthcare Trends & Forecasts in 2010: Performance Expectations for the Healthcare Industry is a 50-page report that also analyzes the responses of 100 healthcare organizations to HIN's annual healthcare trends survey.

Get more information about healthcare reimbursement and reform for 2010.

• Contributing Authors: William DeMarco, president and CEO of DeMarco and Associates, and Jim Knutson, risk manager and human resources director, Aircraft Gear Corporation
  
  
• Content Overview: DeMarco forecasts the 2010 industry climate for physicians, hospitals and health plans, including strategies to close care and business gaps, and suggests likely areas for new products. Addressing the current status of health reform, he shares late-breaking developments from Capitol Hill that affect key industry sectors.

  Focusing on payment reform, Knutson outlines the PROMETHEUS payment method, an alternative to traditional fee-for-service reimbursement that uses episodes of care as the basis for payment and aligns provider payment incentives with risk and rewards. Aircraft Gear Corporation participated in the PROMETHEUS payment pilot, allowing them to negotiate the purchase of high-quality, evidence-based care from providers and incentivize them to avoid potentially avoidable complications.

  This report also analyzes the responses of nearly 100 healthcare organizations to the sixth annual HIN Healthcare Trends and Forecasts survey, in which respondents ranked top-of-mind concerns for the year ahead and reported their organization's best and worst business decisions in 2009.
  
  

• Report Highlights:
  • Barriers and limitations to implementing a fairly radical payment reform proposal such as PROMETHEUS;
  • Coverage with evidence development (CED) — a way to apply comparative effectiveness research;
  • Employer boardroom decisions driving the healthcare agenda;
  • What lifestyle analytics tell us about future healthcare utilization and cost;
  • Suggestions to reduce hospital fragmentation of services, revenue and expenses;
  • Opportunities for growth in specific healthcare markets;
  • The rise of the accountable health plan — the secret to creating "medical groups without walls," the economies of scale they deliver and how to leverage their power during the reimbursement discussion;
  • How the current consumer era in healthcare is impacting providers and hospitals;
  • Healthcare reform buzz from a Washington, D.C., insider: straight talk on taxes on the physician, employer, health plan and medical devices and the latest on the pharmacy fix;
  • The top healthcare innovations as reported by HIN e-survey respondents;
  
  
  and much more, including a Q&A session with the contributing authors.

• Report Formats: PDF-Print Combo, PDF or Print.

QUOTE ATTRIBUTABLE TO MELANIE MATTHEWS, HIN EXECUTIVE VP AND COO:

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“The uncertainty of healthcare reform and the economy provides little guidance for healthcare executives charged with setting their organizational direction and agendas for the year ahead. The advice from DeMarco and Knutson, combined with the feedback and innovations reported by 100 healthcare organizations, is essential reading for C-suite healthcare executives."

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