More Debate on the Future of Primary Care

Byadmin March 8, 2013

Recently, I posted in Forbes about our need to rethink primary care, to avoid a physician shortage. The debate continues, as seen in this interesting post from Dan Diamond.
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Talking To Your Doctor About Out-Of-Pocket Costs Can Save You Money
Byadmin February 18, 2016

Healthcare is often really costly. And with increasing frequency, a significant chunk of those costs is being passed on to patients in the form of high deductibles, copays, or other out-of-pocket expenses. As a result, millions of Americans struggle to pay medical bills each year. What’s a poor patient to do? For starters–they can talk…

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Not So Fun Fact of the Day
Byadmin September 5, 2013

I just came across this picture, from the Kaiser family foundation website, illustrating just how often employee healthcare costs take up 10% or more of employee payroll. The number was already pretty high more than a decade ago, but it’s gotten even higher: For large employees, this amounts to almost $5 per hour put aside…

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Who Pays Your Oncologist?
Byadmin May 31, 2012

A recent economic analysis concluded that patients with metastatic cancer value their treatments significantly more than regulators recognize, with many expensive new therapies looking like veritable bargains to most patients.
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Sneaky Way to End Run the FDA?
Byadmin February 5, 2015

In an earlier post, I wrote about the dietary supplements industry, which is largely unregulated by the FDA, to the detriment of the American consumer. Well here is a recent news story showing how a company is looking to take advantage of this lack of regulation: An anti-aging pill that is backed by five Nobel…

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Is Peer Pressure to Increase Physician Performance Overrated?
Byadmin October 27, 2017

Shutterstock It has become trendy in health policy circles to believe that behavioral economic interventions are the key to health system improvement. After all, traditional economic interventions like pay per performance have generated underwhelming results, with little or no change in physician behavior. Why not try a non-financial, psychological intervention—like performance feedback! Well, a study…

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If We Cut Surgical Pay, Will Surgeons Cut into More People?
Byadmin September 18, 2017

Shutterstock Knee replacements are booming. Between 2005 and 2015, the number of knee replacement procedures in the U.S. doubled, to more than one million. Experts think the figure might rise 6-fold more in the next couple decades, because of our aging population. Since many people receiving knee replacements are elderly, Medicare picks up most of…

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More Debate on the Future of Primary Care

Talking To Your Doctor About Out-Of-Pocket Costs Can Save You Money

Not So Fun Fact of the Day

Who Pays Your Oncologist?

Sneaky Way to End Run the FDA?

Is Peer Pressure to Increase Physician Performance Overrated?

If We Cut Surgical Pay, Will Surgeons Cut into More People?

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