Deepening Medicaid Crisis Threatens Physicians
Even if you don't accept Medicaid, new state laws may require you to as its cost and failed policy overwhelms budgets.
Physicians' Quality Does Impact Cost
The most asked question from state legislators: Does physician quality really impact cost?
Five Ways Physicians Can Get the Most Out of Hospitals
Hospitals go to great lengths to control physicians. They take undeserved public credit for physicians’ work. Curiously, physicians capitulate. Why?
Healthcare Savings: Dumb Luck vs. Progress
BCBS of Massachusetts' quality and cost experiment touts spending reductions that insult physicians' intelligence.
Obamacare's Coming Crisis of Acuity
A pillar of the Affordable Care Act, "personal responsibility," changes the issue from keeping a doctor to affording one for most working families.
Physician Quality Measurements: From Carrots to Sticks
As CMS' bureaucracy morphs meaningful use quality reports to meaningless busywork, it converts quality incentives to penalties to enforce compliance.
Six Ways to Fix HHS, CMS, FDA, and Healthcare
John C. Goodman's recent Forbes article provides just one example of how the federal government hurts, not helps. Here are six ways to fix that.
The Truth about Narrow Networks and Patient Choice
The mainstream press used to relegate ridiculous claims and conclusions to "news of the weird." But, when it comes to patient choice, they are serious debates.
Healthcare's Perfect Storm of Greed and Incompetence
Physician sellouts to hospitals, hospital cabals, clueless and complicit regulators, lawmakers, and reporters create a perfect storm of greed and incompetence.
The Primary Care Scare
Crisis, real or manufactured, feeds politics and the press. In the real world, we have real problems and need real solutions. One is the primary care scare.
Why ACOs are Failing
Three more Pioneer ACOs have dropped out of the program proving that you can't get real results without real change.
Population Health Essentials for Physicians
Population health is much more than a buzzword. It is the future of healthcare, but, why?
Physicians: Follow the Money to Your Future
Confused about how the healthcare system is going to change? Let's follow the money to find the answers, starting with recent news from CMS.
Telemedicine is Risky Business for Physicians
Companies are pushing physician-based telemedicine as a solution. But, while promoters may have not thought things through, physicians must.
The Medical Malpractice Trap for Physicians
Here are five things that physicians can do to mitigate the risk of not only frivolous suits, but legitimate ones.
Hospital-Physician Relations of the Past Could Hinder the Future
Hospitals are gearing up for shared risk and quality requirements under the Affordable Care Act that will affect hospital-physician interaction.
A New Financial Model for Primary-Care Providers
Value-based reimbursement has a bad reputation because it is misunderstood. Done correctly, through an IPA, it could be primary care’s saving grace.
Physician’s Guide to the New Consumer Market
With costs front and center for patients, in simple and stark terms: If you can’t deliver what the consumer perceives as quality, you will lose.
Three Guaranteed Physician Practice Marketing Strategies
Social marketing, search engine optimization, practice marketing' are all good, but 'here are three sure things to increase revenues at minimal cost.
Why We Can't Have Improved Healthcare Cost, Access, and Quality
Achieving improved cost, access, and quality of healthcare is an elusive goal for good reason. Like a balloon animal, squeezing one part always affects another.
The Primary-Care Population Health Primer
The concept of population health is straightforward. Achieving it, not so much, because it requires numerous fundamental changes in our delivery system.
The Independent Physician’s Dystopian Future
The near future for physicians: Dying mom and pop store owners in a big-box health plan, hospital system world trading lab coats for a branded apron.
Insurer-owned Hospital System Wars Leave Physicians in its Wake
The Highmark BCBS purchase of a Pittsburgh health system puts insurers in the thick of hospital competition and reduces physicians to the role of bystander.
VA Scandal Demands Decisive Action, not Political Spin
As VA bureaucrats’ fraud, incompetence, and self-interest is exposed, it vividly illustrates why government should get out of healthcare.
Harvard's Strategy to Fix Healthcare and Physicians' Solutions
Harvard's Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee state, "Providers must lead the way in making value the overarching goal." Physicians are at the core.
Washington Policy Favors Hospitals, Sacrifices Private Physicians
It hasn’t dawned on Washington that hospitals and hospital systems will never commit financial suicide by reducing volume, and physicians will pay the price.
Innovation, Not Regulation, is Key to Improving the Healthcare System
Both sides of the healthcare debate are mired in political entropy, stifling innovation and leaving no options other than to cut prices.
Primary-care Physicians’ Priorities are Misaligned with Reality
Only one of five surveyed physicians cites reducing cost of care as a priority when that is every payer's first priority.
Why Hospital-led Accountable Care Organizations are a Flawed Concept
Why CMS should do away with hospital-led ACOs, and instead, focus on physician-led ACOs.
Bundled Payments: A Bundle of Trouble for Unprepared Physicians
Bundling payments for care episodes is gaining popularity among payers. It is episodic risk-sharing, and it can be risky business for physicians.