You Are Not Your Doctor’s Customer – But You Can Do Something About It
Our care is generally good in theUnited States but not as good…
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…
Appropriate Use of Medicines to Save Lives and Dollars
A new study, “Advancing the Use of Medicines: Applying Levers for Change,” highlights…
Person-Centered HealthCare: ClearHealthCosts Offers Cost Transparency
Everyone knows that cost transparency is sorely missing in healthcare. Where else…
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…
The Health Care Debate
Just finished watching the Presidential debate. It seems the emerging consensus is…
Some Hospitals Affected by Federal Miscalculations on Medicare Readmissions
CMS is taking a fresh look at participating hospitals’ readmission rates. Back…
Malpractice Defense: Diagnostic Laparoscopy Resulting in Bowel Injury
I’m the former chairman of the board of Advanced Practice Strategies (APS), a medical…
What Healthcare Can Learn from the Financial Industry
Educating the PublicThe financial industry has done an extremely effective job of…
