What is the Eisenhower Matrix?

Posted on December 2, 2022 by Dr. Marcinko

What is the Eisenhower Matrix?

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The Eisenhower Matrix is a business management and strategic planning productivity tool that helps to sort tasks and spread them reasonably over time.

The sort out is based on the principals of urgency and importance. When assigned to each task, those two factors place the task to the relevant quadrant of the matrix.

After this routine is done, it’s enough to take a look at the matrix to visually estimate what you should start with.

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STUDENT LOANS and State Taxes

Posted on December 2, 2022 by Dr. Marcinko

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If your student loans were forgiven, you may still owe state taxes

Though widespread federal student loan relief remains on hold, you may have received student loan forgiveness through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program or another similar endeavor. if you had any balances forgiven in 2022, you won’t owe federal taxes on the canceled amount. That’s because of a provision tucked into the 2021 American Rescue Plan, preventing forgiven post-secondary education loans from federal taxation through 2025. 

However, there are a handful of states where forgiven loan balances may be taxed. Indiana, Minnesota, Mississippi and North Carolina have confirmed they will tax any student loan debt relief on your 2022 taxes. A few other states may as well, though the details are still being hammered out.

And, if you live in one of the states taxing forgiven student loans, you may be on the hook for county taxes on your debt relief, as well.

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What is a Rapid Learning Health System?

Posted on December 2, 2022 by Dr. Marcinko

The RLH – From Concept to Action

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According to Greene, Reid and Larson, clinicians and health systems are facing widespread challenges, including changes in care delivery, escalating health care costs, and the need to keep up with rapid scientific discovery.

Re-organizing U.S. health care and changing its practices to render better, more affordable care requires transformation in how health systems generate and apply knowledge. The “rapid-learning health system” is posited as a conceptual strategy to spur such transformation – leverages and recent developments in health information technology and a growing health data infrastructure to access and apply evidence in real time, while simultaneously drawing knowledge from real-world care-delivery processes to promote innovation and health system change on the basis of rigorous research.

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[A Rapid Learning Health System]

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The Essay

This article describes an evolving learning health system at Group Health Cooperative, the 6 phases characterizing its approach, and examples of organization-wide applications.

Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22868839

It is a practical model that promotes bidirectional discovery and an open mind at the system level, resulting in willingness to make changes on the basis of evidence that is both scientifically sound and practice-based.

Assessment

Rapid learning must be valued as a health system property to realize its full potential for knowledge generation and application.

Citation

Implementing the learning health system: from concept to action. Greene SM1, Reid RJ, Larson EB. Author information: Group Health Cooperative, 320 Westlake Avenue North, GHQ E2N, Seattle, WA 98109, USA. greene.sm@ghc.org

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PHYSICIAN PAYMENTS: The Financial Compensation Battle Continues

Posted on December 2, 2022 by Dr. Marcinko

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Paying paying doctors and medical providers for their services may seem simple on the surface, but it’s actually extremely complex. Enter two of the most commonly heard phrases in healthcare: “fee-for-service” and “value-based care,” two models insurers use to decide how much to pay providers. According to Healthcare Brew:

  1. Under a fee-for-service model, providers are paid for each individual service they perform, like a blood test or an X-ray, according to Jennifer Clawson, partner and director of value-based health systems at Boston Consulting Group. A service is provided, and the doctor gets a fixed fee for providing it. Simple enough.
  2. The value-based care model is a bit more complicated, as there are many types of value-based payments. What makes them “value-based” is that payers take patient outcomes into consideration, aka they consider the relative value. “The core of value-based care is ultimately, ‘How do I get a better outcome for less money?’” said Sam Hendler, managing director at private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners.

One type of value-based payment is called a bundled payment, Clawson said. Say you have a heart condition and need to get a stent put in. There are usually several providers involved in that process, e.g., a primary care doctor, cardiac surgeon, and anesthesiologist. An insurer gives the health system a set amount of money to cover everyone involved in the procedure, and the health system decides how to divvy it up.

Another type of value-based payment is called capitation, and there’s multiple types of capitation payments. It’s sort of like a bundled payment, but instead of insurers paying a set amount per procedure, they’re paying a set amount to cover an entire population of patients with a specific disease, like diabetes.

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