Experience & Awards
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Leigh Page's strong writing skills and penetrative reporting have earned him prestigious awards:
- The Peter Lisagor Award For Public Service, 1992
- National and Regional First Place Award from the American Society of Business
Press Editors, 1997.
And small wonder! Leigh developed dynamic case studies and educational white papers about health systems and hospitals for SOLUCIENT – the market leader in providing software that help healthcare companies improve insurance.
He broke leading stories on specialty hospitals, malpractice insurance and cutting-edge technology for CRAIN'S MODERN PHYSICIAN, the leading source of business news and information. And he generated two to three daily stories for the publication's website with a readership of 50,000.
Leigh also reported and wrote on all aspects of the business of healthcare for AMA'S AMERICAN MEDICAL NEWS. And he analyzed and interpreted the early years of the AIDS epidemic as a reporter for the PEORIA JOURNAL STAR.
His credentials are impeccable. Isn't this the kind of experience you want on your next project?
Please contact Leigh at leighpage@comcast.net for competitive hourly and project rates. Or call directly at (773) 772-3449 or reach him on his mobile phone at (708)712-6623.
Match your needs with Leigh's experience
Below are some general areas Leigh has worked in during 25 years of experience in health care reporting. Click on an area heading for more detailed listings, or search this page.
Alternative medicine
- Acupuncture
- Back pain
- Chiropractic
- Complementary medicine
- Healing
- Herbal medicine
- Homeopathy
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Ancillary Services
- Diagnostic services
- Home health
- Occupational therapy
- Physical therapy
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Blood-borne pathogens
- American Red Cross
- Blood banks
- HIV-AIDS
- Mad Cow Disease (or Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease)
- Needlesticks
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Clinical practice
- Group visits
- Preventive medicine
- Wellness
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Compliance
- Anticompetitive market share
- Antitrust laws
- Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment (CLIA)
- Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)
- Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
- False Claims Act
- Fraud and Abuse
- Gainsharing
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Informed consent
- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
- Medicare Anti-Kickback Statute
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Per se violation of antitrust laws
- Protected health information
- Prudent layperson laws for the ED
- Sanctions
- Self-referral laws (Stark I and II)
- Qui tam (whistleblower) lawsuits
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Disasters
- First receivers
- First responders
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Employers
- COBRA ( Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Group insurance
- Leapfrog Group
- Occupational health
- Open enrollment
- Self-Funding
- Workers' compensation
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Foreign medical systems
- Canada
- EBM2000 Plus (new German reimbursement system)
- Gatekeeper program ( Germany )
- Germany
- German health reform (GKV Modernization Law)
- Government-sponsored health insurance
- India
- Malaysia
- Medical tourism
- National health insurance
- Sickness funds (Krankenkassen)
- Singapore
- Soviet-style medicine
- Spain
- Thailand
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- Waiting lists
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Health care for the poor and uninsured
- Access to health care
- Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
- Bankruptcy
- Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (National Institutes of Health)
- Community Health Centers
- Essential community provider
- Federal poverty line
- Healthy People 2010
- Liens on property
- Low-income patients
- Medicaid managed care
- Medically needy
- Minority healthcare
- National Health Service Corps
- Rural health clinic
- Safety-net clinics
- State risk pools
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Healthcare professions
- Charge nurse
- Latex allergy
- Licensed practical nurse (LPN)
- Midlevel practitioner
- Midwifery
- Nurse practitioner
- Physicians: see separate heading
- Physician assistants (PAs)
- Registered nurse
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Health insurance for consumers
- Approval
- Cafeteria plan
- Catastrophic coverage
- Copayment
- Coinsurance
- Consumer-driven health care (consumer-driven health care)
- Deductible
- Defined contribution
- Enrollment
- Exclusions
- Explanation of benefits (EOB)
- Flexible spending account (FSA)
- Managed care: see heading
- Managed Care Organization (MCO)
- Medical savings account (MSA)
- Medical necessity determination
- Out-of-network benefits
- Portability
- Preadmission review
- Pre-existing condition
- Preferred provider organization (PPO)
- Primary coverage
- Prior authorization
- Provider networks
- Small group market
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Hospitals
- Ambulatory surgery centers
- Average length of stay
- Electronic medical record
- Health care organizations
- Materials management
- Medical equipment – see category
- Medical staff
- Occupancy rate
- Outpatient surgery
- Peer review
- Physician preference items
- Sole Community Hospital (SCH)
- Specialty hospitals
- Trauma centers
- UB-92 form
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Information Technology
- Computerized medical record (CMR)
- Computerized physician order entry (CPOE)
- Data mining
- Data warehousing
- Electronic claim
- Electronic claims processing
- Electronic data interchange (EDI)
- Medical informatics
- Medical Management Information System (MMIS)
- Standard transactions and code sets
- Telemedicine
- Unique health identifiers
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Long-term care
- Nursing homes
- Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)
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Malpractice and physician discipline
- Caps on non-economic damages (pain and suffering)
- Intent-to-sue letter
- MICRA (Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975)
- National Practitioner Data Bank
- Professional liability insurance
- Reinsurance
- Stop-loss coverage
- Tort reform
- Underwriting cycle
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Managed care
See also: health insurance for consumers
- Adjusted Community Rate (ACR)
- Administrative Costs
- Adverse selection
- Appropriateness
- Bare bones coverage
- Case management
- Case mix
- Case severity
- Certificate of authority (COA)
- Community rating
- Concurrent review
- Deselection of physicians
- Disease management
- Gatekeeper model HMO
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- High deductible policy
- HMO ( Health Maintenance Organization)
- Indemnity insurance
- Independent practice association (IPA)
- Medical loss ratio
- Moral hazard theory
- Pay for Performance
- Physician credentialing
- Physician profiling
- Point of service (POS)
- Third-party administrator
- Utilization management (UM):
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Medical education
- Continuing medical education (CME)
- Graduate medical education (GME)
- International medical graduates (IMGs) or foreign medical graduates
- Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)
- Medical schools
- National Resident Matching Program
- Standardized patients or simulated patients
- Problem-based learning
- Residency training
- Resident duty hours
- Systems-based medicine
- Teaching hospitals OR academic medical centers
- Team-based medicine
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Medical equipment and supplies
- Drug-eluting stents
- Durable medical equipment
- Group purchasing organization (GPO)
- Loaner instrumentation
- Medical devices
- Medical diagnostics
- Non-durable equipment
- Positron emission tomography (PET)
- Pulse oximeters
- Surgery preference card
- Universal Product Number (UPN)
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Medical specialties
- Cardiology
- Family physicians
- Internal medicine
- Ophthalmology – see separate category
- Orthopedic surgery
- Pain management
- Pathology ( clinical laboratories)
- Psychiatry
- Surgery
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Medicare
- Allowed Charge
- Average adjusted per capita cost (AAPCC)
- Ambulatory payment classification (APC)
- Correct Coding Initiative
- CMS ( Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
- Diagnosis related groups (DRGs)
- Disproportionate share (DSH) adjustment
- Dual eligible
- Graduate medical education (GME) supplements for hospitals
- Fiscal intermediary
- Indirect Medical Education supplement
- Medicare Cost Report (MCR)
- Medigap or supplemental insurance policies
- Non-participating physician
- Part A and Part B
- Peer Review Organization (PRO)
- Physician Payment Review Commission
- Professional Review Organization (PRO)
- Relative value unit (RVU)
- Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS)
- Risk-adjustment
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Ophthalmology
- Age-related macular degeneration (AMD)
- Cataract surgery
- Intraocular lenses
- LASIK (Laser Assisted In-Situ Keratomileusis)
- Phaco emulsification
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Organized medicine
- American Academy of Allergy , Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI)
- American Academy of Dermatology (AAD)
- American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
- American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO)
- American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)
- American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS)
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
- American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS)
- American College of Cardiology (ACC)
- American College of Nuclear Medicine (ACNM)
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
- American College of Physicians (ACP)
- American College of Radiology (ACR)
- American College of Surgeons (ACS)
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- American Osteopathic Association (AOA)
- American Psychiatric Association (APA)
- American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS)
- College of American Pathologists (CAP)
- National Association of Inpatient Physicians (NAIP)
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Pharmaceuticals
- Average wholesale price
- Direct-to-consumer ads
- Drug Utilization Review (DUR)
- Drugs from Canada
- Five-tier drug benefit plan
- Formulary
- Generic drugs
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Physician billing
- Balance-billing
- Bundling
- Capitation
- Claims checking software
- Claims clearinghouse
- Claims processing
- CMS-1500 (HCFA-1500) billing form
- Coding
- Current procedural terminology (CPT)
- Customary, prevailing, and reasonable (CPR) charge
- Discounted fee-for-service
- Downcoding
- Evaluation and Management (E/M) services
- Fee-for-service (FFS) payment
- Fee schedule
- Gag clause
- Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS)
- Hold harmless clause
- ICD-9 (International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision)
- ICD-10-CM
- Payer contracting
- Per member per month (PMPM)
- Physician-hospital organization (PHO)
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Physician licensure and certification
- Board certified
- Board eligible
- Maintenance of certification (MOC)
- State licensing boards (boards of medicine)
- USMLE
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Physician supply and recruiting
- Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME)
- Health Professional Shortage Areas
- Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
- Locum tenens (temporary physician employment)
- Physician executives
- Physician search firms
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Practice management
- Actual charges
- Collection ratio
- Concierge care
- Direct contracting
- Goodwill
- Group practice
- Group practice without walls
- Hospitalists
- Incurred But Not Reported (IBNR)
- Locum tenens
- Management services organization (MSO)
- Non-compete clause (restrictive covenant)
- Physician billing – see separate category
- Physician executives
- Physician search firms
- Practice management
- Primary care physician (PCP)
- Physician unwind transactions
- Referrals
- Risk contract
- Risk sharing
- Same-day appointments
- Solo practice
- Superbill
- Usual, customary and reasonable (UCR) fees
- Withhold
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Research
- Clinical trials
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Institutional review boards (IRBs)
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Safety and quality
- Adverse incidents
- Bloodborne pathogens
- Clinical outcomes
- Code Blue
- Computerized physician order entry (CPOE)
- Crossing the Quality Chasm ( Institute of Medicine report)
- Evidence-based medicine (EBM)
- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
- Health Plan Employer Data and Information Data Set ( HEDIS)
- Informed consent
- Leapfrog Group
- Mortality and morbidity
- National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
- Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act
- Nosocomial infections
- Practice Parameters
- Quality improvement organizations (QIOs)
- Sentinel events
- Six Sigma Performance Improvement process
- Sterile processing department
- Surgical site infections
- To Err is Human ( Institute of Medicine report)
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State regulation & Medicaid
- Any Willing Provider laws
- Certificate of need (CON)
- Licensing of physicians
- Medicaid
- Mental health parity laws
- Prompt payment laws
- Prudent layperson standard
- State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
- TennCare
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