Last Friday we talked about prospective payment, the model where the payer decides in advance what an episode of care is worth and the hospital gets that amount whether they spend more or less. It was a revolution in 1983 because it broke the link between volume and revenue...
Patients First PAC is the first political action committee in Arkansas built by patients and independent medical providers, with a clear stated mission: cut red tape, curb abusive insurance practices, and keep quality care close to home. They represent independent providers, not large health systems or out of state...
The scientific community is one of the few human enterprises that refuses to require a passport. A discovery made in a lab in Copenhagen or Cambridge or Kyoto belongs to anyone with the training to read the paper and the resources to act on it. We celebrate this when...
What We Owe: Medical Debt in America Americans owe at least $220 billion in medical debt. That is a conservative estimate, based on survey data and deliberately excludes the highest outliers to avoid skewing the number upward. The real figure is almost certainly higher. Approximately 14 million people (6%...