Health Management

Podcast: Curus Solutions for Companies in a COVID-19 Era – hosted by Mike Embry

Jul 28, 2020

We are releasing a series of podcasts with Industry leaders answering your questions in the age of COVID-19 about Curus, Healthcare, Benefit Solutions for Self-insured, and Human Resource strategies.  Q&A with our CEO, Mark Schlussel, hosted by Mike Embry, a leader in the United Benefits Association, president of National Association of Health Underwriters from 2017-2019, former Managing Director of Comerica Insurance Group, and founder and president of his own firm Comprehensive Benefits, Inc.  Make sure you check you are subscribed to the blog and you can get notifications of future podcasts by following us on Soundcloud: Curus Healthcare.

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Filed Under: concierge healthcare, Corporate Benefits, Curus, Health Management, healthcare quality, patient satisfaction

Podcast: Curus history – hosted by Mike Embry

Jul 27, 2020

We are releasing a series of podcasts with Industry leaders answering your questions in the age of COVID-19 about Curus, Healthcare, Benefit Solutions for Self-insured, and Human Resource strategies.  This 5 minute discussion with our CEO, Mark Schlussel is hosted by Mike Embry, a leader in the United Benefits Association, president of National Association of Health Underwriters from 2017-2019, former Managing Director of Comerica Insurance Group, and founder and president of his own firm Comprehensive Benefits, Inc.  Each week you can look forward to a discussion with Curus and thought leaders such as Doug Roehm of Strategic Services Group, Brent Matthews of TrueNorth Companies, Jeff...

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Filed Under: concierge healthcare, Corporate Benefits, Curus, Health Management, healthcare quality, patient satisfaction

Conductors Bring Harmony to Healthcare

Jun 9, 2020

Since the onset of COVID-19 at the beginning of this year, with an extraordinarily tragic loss of over 100,000 lives, we are seeing new trends in healthcare delivery rapidly emerging. The most talked about change has been the increased development of telehealth as a method of communication between healthcare provider and patient. From medical journals to newspaper articles, we are seeing a growing discussion of the limitless possibilities for using telecommunications as the primary access point to healthcare services. Having personally experienced two telehealth visits during this phase of our stay-at-home order, I approached these two contacts, one with my...

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Filed Under: concierge healthcare, Health Management, healthcare quality, telehealth

The Healthcare Conundrum

Jan 8, 2020

Over recent decades, healthcare has been at the forefront of the political agenda in the United States. Each of the two major parties have suggested that they have the solution to bringing down costs and improving the quality of care. Yet, they only debate the cost of healthcare delivery and never address the issue of quality. This is because we can quantify the cost of care, but we have a hodgepodge of metrics to try and determine quality. The recipients of healthcare are the ones who are impacted daily by this quality confusion.  As the debate continues about who should...

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Filed Under: concierge healthcare, Health Management, healthcare quality

The Cost of Overmedication

Aug 29, 2019

Pharmacy costs keep going up. If you are one of the millions of people taking prescription medication regularly, you know this well. In fact, a study by The National Health Expenditure Accounts Team found that in 2016 a staggering amount near $329 billion was spent on prescription drugs in the U.S. alone.  That number is growing year after year. There are many reasons why this amount is so high, but one simple reason seems to glare at us above the others -  overmedication. The Epidemic of Overmedication It is a known fact that the elderly are especially at risk of overmedication . Many...

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Filed Under: elder care, health coach, Health Management, healthcare coach, healthcare quality, Insider, medications, overmedication, polypharmacy, too many pills