Nicholas Bonvicino, MD

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.

Why CMS should do away with hospital-led ACOs, and instead, focus on physician-led ACOs.

Bundling payments for care episodes is gaining popularity among payers. It is episodic risk-sharing, and it can be risky business for physicians.

The Obama administration’s health insurance enrollment numbers don’t match up to a conservative’s fact check. Who is telling the truth?

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.

The 90-day “payment grace period” for exchange insured patients puts physicians at risk for 60 days if patients don't pay their premiums.

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.

Primary-care transformation is not just about meeting standards, it requires a fundamental change focused on reducing cost and utilization.

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.

Value-based payment legislation would reward compliance over physician performance, stripping the value from healthcare delivery reform.

Physicians use a common, interoperable population health platform to cut healthcare spending by a third.

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.

America leads the world in technology and pharmacology, but lags far behind in managing and optimizing the health of its citizens.

Skyrocketing insurance deductibles, Medicare, and Medicaid price manipulation shifting costs to private insurers and opaque prices are robbing your patients.

Healthcare will be revolutionized when physicians build and manage narrow high-performing networks and tie them together under a common platform.

Nine of the 32 pioneer ACOs are calling it quits. The problem is execution, not concept.

Delaying the employer mandate highlights the folly of trying to fix how healthcare is paid for.

The words “consumer-driven healthcare” are bandied about like the buzz words, but their real implications are profound.

A new report reveals nearly eight in ten seniors, the generation, have at least one chronic condition. Here’s how we should be handling it.

If you don’t prepare for reimbursement change, pocket change may be all you have left. Here’s the recipe for success.

CMS takes a positive step toward price transparency by disclosing hospital pricing.

Unnecessary Medicare readmissions cost workers $200 each every year.

Patient expectations have changed little in the past 15 months, but patient intensity has.

Physicians must transform their business models from merely being service providers. Why being complacent is your worst option.

Patient-Centered-Medical Home and other efforts, when in practice, affect physician independence.

It is time physicians embrace managing care delivery, not delivering care.

The importance of policing the highways of patient behavior.

Government runs on processes, as seen by its solutions for healthcare. But, medicine is about people, not the process.

Primary care accounts for just 5 percent of Medicare cost. Physicians are the engine to cut costs, not the culprit.

Providing 24/7 electronic access to primary care through telemedicine is creative, but it has challenges.