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Remembering Mike

December 21, 1954-
August 9, 2012

 

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Four Themes to Successfully Navigating the Supreme Court Decision

The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the controversial Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act confirms the direction of healthcare reform that had already begun a few years ago.  Many payers and providers, responding to the slowly emerging regulatory architecture of the law, have embarked on large scale transformational initiatives which will fundamentally change their business models forever.

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New Article

Payers and Providers: The Pressure On Payers Is Relentless

No matter the outcome of the Affordable Care Act, the long-term picture for payers remains uncertain. Even if all the ACA provisions are enforced by the Supreme Court, there are still many issues to sort out. If some of the provisions are struck down, then other issues will be encountered. In an unpredictable business environment, Blue Cross Blue Shield Montana decided to give itself a physical and make process improvements to control what we could control.

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Government Case Studies

Productivity and Response Time Improvements in Local Government

The resource squeeze common throughout the public sector coupled with the possibility that service demands could increase once the economy turned around made Town leaders of Gilbert, Arizona (pop: 208,000) interested in improving productivity and efficiency.

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Mitigating H1N1 Costs within a County Correctional System

This large county judicial system had been facing the need for cost reduction and then the H1N1 pandemic flu became a nationwide issue. As inmates exhibited symptoms of the virus and became ill, they often had to be quarantined for as many as seven to 10 days, delaying the judicial proceedings and adding additional days of housing and medical treatment cost. In addition, other inmates, judicial system employees and officials, and law enforcement professionals were at risk of being exposed to the virus.

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Using Kaizen to Streamline a County Building Process

San Diego County's Department of Planning and Land Use permitting process had grown to unwieldy proportions and needed to decrease the amount of time necessary for granting a permit.

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Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Streamlines Payment Process

PBGC needed to focus on the recovery of benefit overpayment process which was taking too long and resulting in too many duplications of effort. The group uncovered improvements that reduced the lead time to collection by approximately three months.

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Utilizing Lean Six Sigma To Reduce Time & Cost In Testing Environmental Samples

The State of Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality laboratory was finding that water, soil, air, and other samples were often not tested within the necessary timeframe, resulting in additional collection costs.

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Reducing Building Safety Permitting Process with Lean Six Sigma

To stay competitive and attract more commercial building, the City of Mesa, Arizona needed to improve its building safety permitting process from application received to issuance.

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Using Lean Six Sigma To Improve Air Quality Permitting Process

Like many other states undergoing strong growth, The State of Idaho has received a record number of air quality permit applications in recent years. Because the department already had a substantial backlog of applications, the increase in volume was putting enormous strain on the already over-burdened process. See how Guidon helped reduce that strain and decrease turnaround time.

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