Archives By Month: January 2017
Regulating the Doctor/Patient interface
Regulating the Doctor/Patient interface is a serious misdirection in American Health Care for which we are criticized with no convincing argument being raised by the medical profession because they have been hoodwinked by our organizations who emphasize improving quality when we already have the highest quality of medical care found anywhere in the world. Feedback […]
A high deduction plus a copay on every interface with health care
This is the sine quo non-that will provide lean health care and reduce the cost of total health care. Feedback . . . Subscribe MedicalTuesday . . . Subscribe HealthPlanUSA . . . The Future of Health Care Has to Be Lean, Efficient and Personal.
The Federal Gov’t Penalizes Doctors and Hospital for long stays
But then the push to discharging early, creates more readmissions which the gov’t also penalizes. CMS penalized 2,597 hospitals in FY2017 on account of unnecessary readmissions. This year the CMS under HRRP will withhold $528 million in payments in 2017– an all-time high and an increase of about $108 million from FY 2016. New evidence-based […]
Controlled in most countries by the government
Bureaucrats telling the profession how to practice. Feedback . . . Subscribe MedicalTuesday . . . Subscribe HealthPlanUSA . . . Government medicine does not give timely access to healthcare, it only gives access to a hazardous waiting list. In America, everyone has access to HealthCare at all times. No one can be refused by […]
Trump touches the face of a service man without arms
John New @JohnNew2015 It has been a movement from the beginning – God blessed the nation, with your candidacy, victory in the election and your presidency. Replying to @JohnNew2015 @POTUS The good citizens of the United States of America witness your sincerity of heart and true compassion for man. We’re grateful and fortunate. Replying to @JohnNew2015 […]
The HealthCare Debate is Misdirected
For Healthcare to be truly patient oriented and directed it has to be entrepreneurial Government directed Healthcare can never be truly patient friendly How Did We Get Here? The US Healthcare debate has been “what should or can the government do to solve the healthcare crises since the New Deal in the 1933 and following. […]