Important Healthcare Workforce Bills Reintroduced & Committee Assignments Announced
Important Healthcare Workforce Bills Reintroduced & Committee Assignments AnnouncedImportant healthcare workforce bills related to the interstate medical licensure compact prohibitions on non-compete agreements were reintroduced from the past legislative session by the Michigan Legislature during the week of Jan. 27. In addition, committee …
MHA Webinar to Review 2025 MI-AIM Eligibility Requirements
MHA Webinar to Review 2025 MI-AIM Eligibility RequirementsThe MHA will host an informational webinar at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6 to review 2025 eligibility requirements for hospital birthing units to receive maternal health quality payments through the Michigan Department of Health and …
BEAD Program Opens to Support Broadband Access in Michigan
The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program recently opened its two-step application process through 4 p.m. April 9, 2025, with pre-applications required for submission by 4 p.m. March 10. The program is part of …
Speaking Health Care™ Guide Assists with Understanding Language
Speaking Health Care™ Guide Assists with Understanding LanguageOrientating new trustees extends far beyond a single session. New members usually require months to get fully up-to-speed on strategic priorities and the basic expectations for trustees. A daunting challenge is interpreting language about operations, clinical care, …
Keckley Report
Bill Maher Rant is Shared by Most
“Last Friday (January 24), comedian Bill Maher offered a perspective on the murder of UnitedHealth Executive Brian Thompson on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. With characteristic profanity-laced sarcasm, he assailed insurers, hospitals, drug companies, doctors and enablers as complicit in BT’s death because “the system” has abandoned any semblance of concern about caring for people. …
Healthcare insiders now face an unwelcome reality: outsiders aren’t happy and they’re acting on their discontent. Outsiders–employers, consumers, community leaders, state and federal elected officials, news organizations and even volunteer members of non-profit healthcare organizations– believe systemic reform is needed. Recent polling by Hart and KFF indicate increased transparency about healthcare prices is their starting point: they’re worried about affordability but don’t think insiders care. …
Like Bill Maher and the majority of outsiders, they think the system stinks. Healthcare—every sector– needs to fresh start with outsiders. Transparency means more than posting charges, discounted prices, out-of-pocket estimates and premiums. It about underlying direct and indirect costs, margins, how leaders are compensated, how clinical processes and clinical decisions are made, how clinician performance is measured, how denials are adjudicated, how consumers are heard, how non-financial results matter to the organization and much more. That’s a start.”
News to Know
News to Know- The Michigan Society of Healthcare Risk Management is now accepting nominations for the Paul Venzke Award for Outstanding Performance in the field of Healthcare Risk Management.
- The MHA is hosting a series of free webinars focused on healthcare workforce challenges, featuring insights from MHA Endorsed Business Partners.
MHA in the News
MHA CEO Brian Peters was quoted by media outlets the week of Jan. 27 discussing federal healthcare issues. Bridge published an article Jan. 27 about the temporary pause of external communications from federal health agencies. …