Welcome to The Healthcare Savings Chronicle, Coalition America's emagazine designed to help healthcare insurers and employers generate savings and effectively compete in today's market place.  As you may have noticed, we've launched our newly redesigned newsletter where you'll still find all the same useful information as the last version, just a cleaner look. Future editions will offer even more great articles from experts in the industry addressing the issues medical claim payors face in the market today.

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Libby Roper
Editor, The Healthcare Savings Chronicle

by Mike Reha, Director of Operations
EPIC Hearing Healthcare

Hearing loss is now number three on the list of chronic health problems in our country, and most hearing loss is treatable. It affects over 32 million Americans (1 out of 10) currently with an estimate that this number will double within the next 15 years.

by Stephen George, MBA-HA
Provider Risk Reinsurance

The super-carrier we call medicine sails with tremendous talent. Medicine needs doctors at the helm and a tight crew to navigate the turbulent course ahead; a course to higher professional standards in participation, disease control and financial responsibility. Balancing production and efficacy of care is the responsibility of properly trained doctors able to put patient care first and stay off the reef. Now more than ever is the need for effective leadership; leaders capable of assembling the myriad of relationships needed to finance demand for both basic and catastrophic medical care. MD does not mean MBA, yet without their inspired and aggressive attendance few will weather the red tide of looming entitlement spending cuts. We are at the calm before the storm.

by Captain James R. Johnston, PhD, USNR (Ret)
Director, American Health Science University
& National Institute of Nutritional Education

The United States ranks 40th among nations in overall health and is tied with Portugal in average life expectancy (77.9 years)—in spite of our medical technology being the best and most expensive in the world.¹ Why? One reason is that medical intervention, including tests and therapies, is the third leading cause of death, after heart disease and cancer.² Another reason is that we are not effectively maximizing care from qualified non-medical healthcare practitioners because they lack codes to document and bill for their care.