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Estimating Lifetime or Episode-of-Illness Costs Under Censoring

How can you estimate an individual’s total lifetime cost of medical care? For people who die in your sample, this is simple. In most data sets, however, not all individuals…

JasonShafrin
JasonShafrin
February 14, 2011

Health in a Networked Life

Markle identified some interesting social and cultural findings in their survey Health in a Networked Life. They include: Many doctors and patients surveyed believe key information is lost in their…

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thielst
February 14, 2011

How PPACA fixes some of the problems of Part D

One of the most infuriating and hypocritical elements of the GOP’s attack on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is the complaint about its cost. The non-partisan Congressional…

DavidEWilliams
DavidEWilliams
February 13, 2011

CMS Chief Answers to Congress, Provides Few Details on Reform’s Early Progress

The first opportunity for the House to fire questions at Obama recess appointee (to CMS head) Donald Berwick, MD took place yesterday. Berwick took the time to affirm that the…

MichaelDouglas1
MichaelDouglas1
February 11, 2011

Klein: Decision on Individual Mandate Could Come Down to Kennedy

Prognostications and general predictions aside, the often polarized nature of the SCOTUS lends itself to easy expectations of the high court’s decisions on many key issues. Hot buttons such as…

MichaelDouglas1
MichaelDouglas1
February 10, 2011

Concentra’s Dr. Tom Fogarty on urgent care (transcript)

This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with Concentra Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Tom Fogarty. David Williams: This is David Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Partners and author of…

DavidEWilliams
DavidEWilliams
February 10, 2011

Protocol Medicine – It Is Time For Doctors To Recognize Their Value

We hear that doctors do not like “protocol medicine” – they do not want to follow a “cookbook” when every patient is different. It is not a good understanding of…

StephenSchimpff
StephenSchimpff
February 9, 2011

More Evidence that Medical Malpractice Reform Wouldn’t Stop Excessive Testing

As discussed recently (Let’s not forget patient safety in med mal reform) I don’t buy the idea that excessive testing is mainly attributable to “defensive medicine,” i.e., doctors doing too…

DavidEWilliams
DavidEWilliams
February 8, 2011

Obesity Devices Gain From Drug Woes

It is a repeated theme in the history of medtech development. Drugs represent an alluring treatment alternative, since the option to swallow a pill to deal with a problem will…

PatrickDriscoll
PatrickDriscoll
February 8, 2011

SCOTUS to Hear Case Involving Governor’s Proposal to Cut Payments for Providers to California’s Medicaid Patients

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide if doctors, hospitals, pharmacies and others who provide services to California Medi-Cal recipients can have their payments cut by the state. Medi-Cal, the state’s…

MichaelDouglas1
MichaelDouglas1
February 7, 2011
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