Image isn't everything
After months of contentious wrangling, the House has passed its version of healthcare reform.
After months of contentious wrangling, the House has passed its version of healthcare reform. But to me, and many other observers, healthcare reform has largely become insurance reform. Why concentrate on slowing spending and controlling costs, those issues carry huge political risks. Insurance companies are easy targets. They have high-paid CEOs and they deny people with pre-existing conditions coverage, among other evils. Not surprisingly, polling data suggest that laying blame on insurance companies is safe ground for pols seeking to take a stand on reform.
In all fairness, the bill contains a variety of changes that focus on quality and health system performance improvements. These include proposals that encourage the development of more primary care providers.
Can that provision get any traction?
Asset Protection and Financial Planning
December 6th 2021Asset protection attorney and regular Physicians Practice contributor Ike Devji and Anthony Williams, an investment advisor representative and the founder and president of Mosaic Financial Associates, discuss the impact of COVID-19 on high-earner assets and financial planning, impending tax changes, common asset protection and wealth preservation mistakes high earners make, and more.
Reducing burnout with medical scribes
November 29th 2021Physicians Practice® spoke with Fernando Mendoza, MD, FAAP, FACEP, the founder and CEO of Scrivas, LLC, about the rising rates of reported burnout among physicians and how medical scribes might be able to alleviate some pressures from physicians.
