Mortality, Hospitalization, & Expenditures in Medicare Patients
Research from Yale and Harvard indicates that all-cause mortality and hospitalization rates, as...
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Healthcare Policy
Keeping Claims from Becoming Denials in ICD-10
Have you ever found a recipe in a magazine that you wanted to try? You did your best to follow the...
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Malpractice Reform’s Effect on ED Care
It is often claimed that “defensive medicine” is a major source of wasteful medical spending. One...
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Is Medical Care Becoming Unaffordable?
As the second enrollment period for insurance exchanges under the ACA opened in November, many...
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Making the Case for More Specialist Training
Experts have reported that population growth among the elderly and the increasing prevalence of...
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Out-of-Network Emergency Services & the Affordable Care Act
Reimbursement rates for out-of-network hospitals are likely to become a major issue when health...
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Health Policy Impacts End-of-Life Care – Video Highlight
End of Life Care in a Changing Health Care Environment: The Impact of the Affordable Care Act and...
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Affordable Care Act: Glitches Beyond the Websites
Now that the government shutdown is over, it’s time to focus on the Affordable Care Act. Many have written about website sign-up difficulties including the apparent mother of all the bad ones, healthcare.gov. Here are some...
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Why We Pay More for Healthcare Than Any Other Country
By John Green The following sources are cited: The Incidental Economist, Issues in International...
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Caring for Chronic Conditions in Primary Care
With the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act now underway, more attention is being focused...
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Breaking Down Avoidable Healthcare Costs
Around $213 billion was spent on avoidable healthcare costs in the United States in 2012.
Read MoreWhy Don’t Hospitalized Elderly Patients Walk?
Forty-three minutes—that’s the median length of time a hospitalized elderly patient spends standing or walking daily, reports a New York Times story. Not only that, the paper from which the 43 minutes number came also noted that...
Read MoreWhy I Left Academic Medicine
A medical student who thinks he wants a career in academic surgery asks, “You were deep into academic medicine and walked away from chairman, program director, etc. Why?” [Background: For over 23 years, I was a full-time...
Read MoreSay it Ain’t So, HIPAA!
Dear HIPAA: I’m sure you get a lot of hate mail, especially from folks in my profession, so when you got this letter from me you probably assumed it was more of the same. Let me reassure you: I am not one of those docs. I do...
Read MorePhysician Turnover Rate Hits New High
Following suit with stock prices and home sales, physician turnover rate is rising, reaching the highest rate since 2005 and exceeding pre-recession levels. According to the 8th annual Physician Retention survey from Cejka...
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67% of Hospitals Face Readmission Penalties
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ new policy that penalizes hospitals for...
Read MoreNew Rules for Paying MDs Proposed in NY
New York City’s Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), which runs 11 hospitals in four of the five boroughs of New York, is negotiating a new deal with the union representing some 3,300 salaried physicians. The corporation...
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