tPF Organizational Study 2011/1 -- Hospital Executive Predictions, Implications and Actions

Stay tuned for information about our first study of 2011, which will ask Hospital executives to look at the US Healthcare Reform Act and predict which provisions of the Act will be enacted and repealed.  The Study will also examine the measures being taken by these executives to deal with Medicare reimbursement shortfalls and other implications of the Act.  Later this week, the Study will be put to the 'straw man' test as we have asked several US hospital executives to look at the text of the study and give us feedback and pointers before we distribute it to several thousand hospital executives online.  The information gleaned from this Study will be shared with Study participants and the press in order to elevate public consciousness around a contentious and critical issue.

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