Healthcare Leadership Council

WASHINGTON – In testimony submitted to the House Ways and Means health subcommittee, Healthcare Leadership Council president Mary R. Grealy said it is beyond question that the Medicare program “as it exists today, cannot be sustained for future generations” and that Congress must move forward with structural reform of the program.

Ms. Grealy’s statement was submitted to subcommittee chairman Rep. Wally Herger (R-CA) in conjunction with the panel’s hearing on premium support models for Medicare reform.  The Healthcare Leadership Council is a coalition of chief executives from leading companies and organizations representing all health sectors. More Details »

The Healthcare Leadership Council sponsored its annual Healthcare Innovation Expo in the Cannon House Office Building.  Twenty of the nation’s leading healthcare companies and organizations displayed new medical technologies and initiatives to improve public health to over 100 members of Congress and numerous congressional office and committee staffers.

HEALTHCARE INNOVATION EXPO 2012

Under the terms of the health reform law, huge savings from dropping employee health plans could force more Americans to change the way they receive health coverage.

• A report from the U.S. House Ways & Means Committee comes on the heels of another report by the House Energy & Commerce Committee.  The previous report cited rising employer health costs and constrained company growth.
• The combination of a low per-employee penalty for dropping coverage and still-rising health costs could make for some businesses an attractive incentive to drop health benefits, the Ways & Means report concludes. More Details »

A recent study has found that leading American hospitals have made greater progress implementing health information technology.

• Information company Thompson Reuters and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s HIMSS Analytics arm together produced this report.
• “This is one of the first studies to make the connection between hospitals using advanced information technologies and quality and safety benchmarks,” a HIMSS Analytics official said.

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