A Primer on the Economic Levers CMS Has To Improve Patient Satisfaction
Effective this month, CMS will institute its Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program, changing how providers get reimbursed for services provided to Medicare and Medicaid patients. Effective this month, CMS will institute…
Even Our Pets Are Too Fat: Weight Loss for Pets
That's a fat cat. In a month that celebrates Adopt-a-Dog Month and National Cat Day, it is only appropriate that we have this. Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts…
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Nearly one quarter of women will experience abuse at the hands of an intimate partner in their lifetimes. Certain statistics, like this one, are so overwhelming, so seemingly insurmountable,…
Appropriate Use of Medicines to Save Lives and Dollars
A new study, “Advancing the Use of Medicines: Applying Levers for Change,” highlights the opportunity to save half a trillion dollars in global healthcare spending a year by supporting the appropriate…
Person-Centered HealthCare: ClearHealthCosts Offers Cost Transparency
Everyone knows that cost transparency is sorely missing in healthcare. Where else would you purchase something and not have a clue what it costs? In the past, patients have not…
Sticking to Health & Wellness Goals: These Websites Made Me Do It
My regular readers know how important I think behavioral economics will become in the field of health care. The best place to start thinking about applications of behavioral economics principles…
Age of the Healthcare Consumer
A recent Harris Poll had some great data, but one point struck me as particularily funny. Well, it really isn't funny, but it is ironic. The data point is that…
Getting Doctors in Your Doors
Physician Recruitment Marketing: Attracting New Talent in a Competitive Market Physician Recruitment Marketing: Attracting New Talent in a Competitive MarketIt’s an ongoing challenge. You’re trying to keep the quality physicians…
America, “We’ve Lost a Pod”: What Romney and Obama Didn’t Say…
While polls immediately following Wednesday’s Presidential debate in Denver suggested that Mitt Romney came out of the contest way ahead of Barack Obama, the real winners were clearly America’s fact-checkers…
Continuous Partial Attention
Continuous Partial Attention--while reading a blog post this morning that term jumped out at me. The last few weeks of juggling a laptop while talking with patients have made it…
