What If the Health Care Cost Crisis Solves Itself?
Conventional wisdom is that cutting Medicare rates shifts the burden to the…
“Social Media Residency”: Essential for Tomorrow’s Physicians
Should doctors undergo a formal social media training program? The answer from…
Medicare Essential Plan Worth Considering
A proposed “Medicare Essential” plan that bundles all parts of Medicare services…
Health Insurance “Rate Shock”: A New Opportunity Within the Broader Trend of Healthcare Consumerism
TripleTree recently published research on the impact of consumerism in healthcare. TripleTree…
Data Alone Does Not Make Health Care Pricing Meaningful
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released new data this week, showing…
The Currency of Social Media in HealthCare
Many people say information is power. I don’t believe that. Information sharing…
Improving the Affordable Care Act by Modifying the MLR Rule
The Affordable Care Act is a big step in the right direction,…
HHS Secretary to Create Transparency Mechanisms to Address Medical Billing Costs
Back when TIME published its now classic mainstream longform piece “Bitter Pill”, the…
Dictionary of ElderCare Terminology Available
Walter Feldesman published the first edition of his Dictionary of Eldercare Terminology.…
Medicare’s Data Release Places More Power in Hands of Informed Medical Consumers
Yesterday, Medicare released data on in-patient hospital costs across the country to…
