Paul Levy, over at Running a Hospital, is mulling over the war cry of the interventionist: Too much is not…
At first blush, VBP looks like RHQDAPU redux. Once it is implemented, though, in FFY 2009, it looks like it…
The Kaiser Family Foundation kicked off a tracking poll on health care issues in connection with the presidential campaign. First…
So by now everyone has heard/read about the end of cardiac care as we know it. Stents don't save lives. …
Friday afternoon I received a slightly breathless email from the good people at the Campaign for America's Future (a name…
My article entitled Gainsharing: providing care in a more economical way was just published in the Spring issue of The…
Physicians have written about patient cases for their peers and for the general public for years and years. Oliver Sacks,…
Item: The CDC, in last week’s MMWR, reported the fact that dialysis patients have a drug-resistant staph infection rate more…
The CMS web page on PQRI says:PQRI establishes a financial incentive for eligible professionals to participate in a voluntary quality…
The short answer is "no." The SGR (a Medicare "guardrail," if you will, for physician reimbursement increases) has been zapped…