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Medicare Advantage Reform: Detaching Pay from Performance

5/17/2012 3:09 PM

Medicare Advantage (MA) is the "private option" within Medicare. Private health insurers are paid a fixed monthly fee to provide at least the same minimum health benefits to their enrollees as "traditional" fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare, but they also have the ability to offer coordinated care, disease management, phone consultations, and other se...Read More

Are House Republicans Caving in on Repealing Obamacare? Doubtful.

5/17/2012 9:10 AM

Politico is reporting that House Republicans are preparing for the possibility that the Supreme Court upholds the law by drafting new legislation. "When the court rules, we'll be ready," House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) told the House Republican Conference on Wednesday. But what's surprising about alleged GOP plans is that they involve preserv...Read More

Chrysler's Kumbaya King

5/16/2012 5:34 PM

What do the Dalai Lama, Sean Penn, Eminem and Clint Eastwood have in common? Not much, except for controversial car marketer Olivier Francois...Read More

James Beard Awards: Mercedes-Benz Next Best New Restaurant, Daniel Humm Outstanding Chef

5/16/2012 9:15 AM

For foodies, it's the equivalent of the Oscars. Last week,??The James Beard Foundation??held its annual awards show at Lincoln Center. Mercedes-Benz presented the Best New Restaurant Award to??Grant Achatz??of??Next??in??Chicago.????Next??opened in 2011. You can't make a reservation, but you can buy a ticket.??The??New York??Times writes, "It is no...Read More

Why GM Yanked Its Facebook Ads On Eve Of IPO

5/15/2012 4:54 PM

A lot of people are wondering why decided to stop advertising on Facebook just three days before the social media site?s widely anticipated stock offering. After all, it doesn?t look very good to potential investors when the nation?s third largest advertiser says your site isn?t an effective way to reach customers. Facebook has been all .....Read More

GM Says Facebook Ads Don't Work, Pulls $10 Billion Account

5/15/2012 2:36 PM

Just days before Facebook?s historic stock offering, said it plans to stop advertising on the social media site, concluding that its paid ads don?t have a big impact on consumers. GM spends about $40 million a year on Facebook marketing, according to the Journal, about $10 million of which is for paid advertisements. It will .....Read More

GM Says Facebook Ads Don't Work, Pulls $10 Million Account

5/15/2012 2:36 PM

Former Ford CEO Red Poling is dead at 86

5/15/2012 12:17 PM

Harold A. ?Red? Poling, former chairman and chief executive of , died over the weekend in California. He was 86. Poling, who retired in 1994, was instrumental in turning around Ford?s North American operations in the early 1980s when Japanese competitors were clobbering domestic carmakers. Poling focused on cutting costs and restoring quality, and ...Read More

On Heels Of Record Health IT Funding, Castlight Health Recruits Former Medco Executive

5/15/2012 8:04 AM

Founded only four years ago, Castlight is fast establishing itself as the leader in a field rarely associated with health care: cost transparency. The , Calif.-based company offers employees of self-insured companies the ability to compare medical procedures based on price and quality, which vary widely within the same geographical area. Earlier th...Read More

Drug Companies Are Testing Health Technology

5/15/2012 8:02 AM

Drug companies are dipping into health technology???or at least skimming the surface. is a new player at this week's 2.0 matchmaking conference which seeks to pair health technology start-ups with deep-pocketed partners. The pharma company, which is a sponsor, says it is "interested in companies pursuing innovation/opportunities related to the digi...Read More

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