Physicians Need to Know the Truth behind the ACA Enrollment Numbers
The Obama administration’s health insurance enrollment numbers don’t match up to a conservative’s fact check. Who is telling the truth?
Washington has Declared War on Doctors, says Physician
Family physician Marlin Gill wrote his congressman looking for help in Washington’s “war on doctors.” His facts are correct, but his reasoning is not.
Obscure Obamacare Rule Puts Many Physicians at Financial Risk
The 90-day “payment grace period” for exchange insured patients puts physicians at risk for 60 days if patients don't pay their premiums.
Why the SGR Fix is Politics Instead of Progress for Physicians
The CBO says tacking a five-year delay to the individual mandate to the SGR fix will result in 13 million more uninsured and cost $138 billion.
Five Concepts that Could Transform Primary Care and Healthcare Overall
Primary-care transformation is not just about meeting standards, it requires a fundamental change focused on reducing cost and utilization.
Physicians and the Politics of Obamacare
A new Kaiser Family Foundation poll indicates that 47 percent of Americans don’t like the ACA, but 56 percent would keep it. Why the confusion? Politics.
The Physicians that Patients and Payers Now Covet the Most
Performance, not a physician's resume, is fast becoming the new gold standard for patients and payers alike.
Proposed SGR Fix No Bargain for Physicians
Value-based payment legislation would reward compliance over physician performance, stripping the value from healthcare delivery reform.
Physicians Band Together To Cut Costs, Improve Quality of Care
Physicians use a common, interoperable population health platform to cut healthcare spending by a third.
Why Physicians Quit, and What They Do
Uncertainty and confusion are causing many physicians to seriously consider other careers. Michelle Mudge-Riley left clinical practice to guide them.
ACA Barriers Put Physician Performance at Risk
The ACA is creating a middle class that is underinsured, threatening to undermine physicians' ability to improve population health, and to be rewarded for it.
Obamacare's Big Changes Change Little for Physicians
America leads the world in technology and pharmacology, but lags far behind in managing and optimizing the health of its citizens.
Physicians, Patients, and Price Opacity
Skyrocketing insurance deductibles, Medicare, and Medicaid price manipulation shifting costs to private insurers and opaque prices are robbing your patients.
Four Great Challenges Facing Physicians in 2014
This is the year Obamacare becomes real for the general public. The day of reckoning with their employers comes later. Physicians are in the middle.
The Physician and the Universe: A Broader Perspective
We spend our lives within our own worlds - Obamacare, patient issues, practice issues - rarely looking outside where perspective lives.
Physicians, Politics, and Pragmatism
Medical practices are dealing with a tsunami of data and must strive to keep statistics honest.
How to Succeed as a Physician Entrepreneur
There are always winners and losers in game changing legislation like Obamacare, and physicians are uniquely positioned to do either in a big way.
Obamacare's 'Death Spiral' and its Effect on Physicians
Odds may still favor the Affordable Care Act, but not in its present form. Democrats may have no choice but to cross the aisle to fix fatal flaws.
Obamacare's Victors and Victims, Including Physicians
Almost all federal legislation creates winners and losers. Under the Affordable Care Act, physicians and patients who fail to act will be the latter.
High-Deductible Mountain is Practice Marketing Gold
All but a well-heeled minority and the Obamacare exempted will be facing mega-deductible health insurance in 2014, meaning they are effectively self-insured.
Primary-Care Physician Shortage Solutions off Base
The newly insured under Obamacare needing primary care may be in the thousands or millions. Either way, primary care is the keystone solution to reduce spending.
Physician Communication with Hospitalized Patients Key
Simply being on time, or communicating when physicians can see a patient, can spare anxiety, stress.
Patients’ Collateral Damage in Physician-Payer Tussles
Insurer denials for expensive diagnostics are often caused by physician failure to follow simple rules.
How Balloons Represent Obamacare’s Future
Expanding insured without lowering per capita insured spending will expand the already fragile healthcare balloon to inevitable failure.
Patient Out-of-Pocket Expenses Rise, Squeezing Physician Cash Flow
The Health Care Cost Institute reports patient out-of-pocket expenses will rise 4.8 percent to $3,072 for a privately insured family of four.
Physician Organization, Not Consolidation, Key to Success
Enterprise-level management and transforming physicians into clinical managers represents a pivotal advance in ACO and IPA models.
Economists’ Conclusions at Odds with Experience in Coordinated Care
More coordination may lead to higher prices, according to Harvard’s Katherine Baicker and Michigan’s Helen Levy.
The Critical Need to Reinvent Primary Care
It is time for primary-care physicians to step up and lead the many other providers who provide direct care.
Physicians, Politicians, and Healthcare Policy, Oh My!
The intractability by both parties in Congress over healthcare keeps them focused on politics, not policy.
Consumer-Directed Healthcare May Cost Physicians Billions
Forcing vulnerable patients to make financial decisions under high-deductible plans takes clinical decisions out of physicians’ hands.