This morning, as I was contemplating what to write about for today’s article, I received an email from a client who red lined an offer from a health plan for the new Medicaid Managed Care initiative in Illinois. It seems the payer did not want to accept...
Continue readingVertical Integration Returns to U.S. Healthcare: What You Need to Know Now
In the 1990s, during the Clinton Administration, the USA saw many attempts to achieve vertical integration in healthcare. Here we are again! New acronyms were initiated and made popular to describe Independent Practice Associations (IPAs), Physician Hospital Organizations (PHOs), which were managed and administered by entities known as Management Services Organizations (MSOs). Physicians felt the...
Continue reading63 Must Know Data Points to Bridge the Gap on Meaningful Medical Tourism Market Data
You’ve seen it time and time again. Some publisher has published yet another new report that highlights the market size and potential of the medical tourism / health travel / medical travel market size and opportunity. The cost to access this report is often more than USD $1000. And...
Continue reading6 Key Considerations When Targeting U.S. Patients for Medical Tourism
Not getting enough traction with your marketing and advertising efforts towards American patients? Let's talk about it. Medical, dental and wellness tourism providers targeting individuals with specific health conditions may underestimate the challenges attracting North American patients from the USA. The stakes are higher than ever before because of many U.S. healthcare...
Continue reading10 Basic Steps to Medical Tourism Startup
International Hospital Accreditation for Medical Tourism – Who Pays? HEALTH TOURISM MARKETING STRATEGY AskMariaTodd™ …for more information about what’s been mentioned in this article or something else you’d like to learn more about and… Thank You! … for being part of my professional community. Thank you for reading, watching, commenting, sharing, and spreading all...
Continue readingAddressing Criticism on Social Media
Criticism on social media platforms can happen to anyone, at any time, for any reason. Sooner or later, the inevitable will happen to you. And when it does, how will you respond? Some people respond by not responding. This is the wrong approach in most cases. If you...
Continue reading#AskMariaTodd: The Proliferation Trajectory of Community-based, Freestanding Emergency Departments
Recently, I’ve been taking calls from venture capital investment funds and bankers curious about my impression and experience with community-based freestanding emergency departments. Most of the questions are similar: Why this, why now, what’s next, hurdles and obstacles? They also want to know if I can share any...
Continue readingThe Cadillac Tax suspension and what that means for employer paid medical travel
The Affordable Care Act’s high-cost plan tax (HCPT), popularly known as the “Cadillac tax,” is a 40 percent excise tax on employer plans exceeding $10,200 in premiums per year for individuals and $27,500 for families. This caused employers and labor unions who were operating self-funded health benefit plans (Employer Sponsored...
Continue readingShould Concierge Physicians Consider Hiring a PR Professional?
As a concierge physician (regardless of what you call it these days, boutique medicine, membership practice, personalized medicine or something else) if you’ve pulled out of most of your managed care agreements, you’ve lost patient steerage that you were trading in exchange for the discounts you negotiated. Ok,...
Continue readingPerils & pitfalls of methodological nationalism in medical tourism
In Social Science, Methodological Nationalism is a term used to describe an intellectual orientation and pattern in scholarly research and many commercially prepared advertorial and promotional pieces that conceives of the nation-state as the sole unit of analysis or as a container for social processes. So for example, rather than...
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