US News (To cover medical bills, the uninsured get creative) covers hospitals’ sliding fee scales, medical bill negotiation and medical tourism.

Gorkana, a UK based media intelligence company, published an interview with David Williams (Gorkana meets…David Williams). Topics include: how the Health Business Blog has evolved over the past eight years, issues covered, sources of inspiration, and favorite podcasts.

InformationWeek asked 12 experts, including David Williams, for health IT predictions for 2013.

US News and World Report’sDebate Club featured Health Business Group’s arguments against raising the Medicare age and in favor of further increasing the elgibility age for Social Security.

David Williams moderated a panel on telemedicine at the CONVERGE conference in Philadelphia.

MedCity News spoke with Health Business Group about health care social media and “prosumers.”

David Williams discussed the Affordable Care Act and the impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling at a Let’s Talk HIT event sponsored by the RGL Group of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.

CBS TV 5 in San Francisco aired a segment on the use of Groupon and LivingSocial by health care providers. David Williams is featured in a video interview.

Narrow provider networks are coming to Buffalo, NY and Health Business Group is quoted about the implications in the Buffalo News.

A Health Care Finance News article on managing the cost of health IT features research from Health Business Group.

CBS News and the Daily Kos covered David Williams’s opinions about the use of Groupon in health care.

Two leading Silicon Valley venture capital funds were incubating a seed stage telemedicine company that proposed to leverage nurse practitioners as an alternative for certain primary care conditions. The investors sought out Health Business Group to assist in understanding the market landscape and segmenting prospective customers.

A health information technology company had achieved strong market penetration with hospitals, health systems and individual healthcare professionals. However, advances in technology and computer networks, consolidation of the provider market, and the company’s lack of a comprehensive pricing strategy had created challenges.

The client began as a contract sales organization serving large pharmaceutical companies. Market dynamics had been deteriorating as the pharmaceutical industry as a whole began to reduce the size of its sales force and as large customers started negotiating more aggressively.

A biomedical research institute within a large clinical organization had encountered difficulties in developing and communicating a strategic plan. An initial plan had been developed internally, but key members of the parent organization’s board and senior management were skeptical of the value of research and were concerned about the costs of the institute and of the proposed strategy.

The company had developed a robust business managing advanced wound care services in the hospital setting and was seeking to accelerate its growth by opening freestanding hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) centers for wound care and other indications.

Health Business Group has provided technical assistance in sustainable business model development and strategic planning under the auspices of a major philanthropic foundation. Since 2009 we have worked with grantee organizations in California, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington, and Wisconsin.

A leading pharmacy benefit management (PBM) company had achieved a robust growth trajectory via organic growth and acquisitions. Health Business Group was asked to evaluate the attractiveness of other medical benefits markets including oncology, radiology, orthopedics, and medical devices and to develop an entry strategy for the more promising ones.

A large private equity firm asked Health Business Group to assist in the commercial due diligence of a core information technology provider for health plans.The target was a leading player with smaller health plans and was aggressively trying to gain ground with larger customers but encountering entrenched competitors.