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Tag Archives: Physicians
Physicians, Health Systems and the Drive For Market Dominance
Brian Klepper Posted 5/23/13 on Medscape Connect’s Care & Cost Blog Several physicians have reached out recently to discuss attractive employment offers from health systems. They are invariably conflicted. They understand the trade-offs, that they’ll give up the autonomy they’ve … Continue reading
How Physician Practices Can Prepare for a Health Care Marketplace
Brian Klepper Posted 4/21/13 on Medscape Connect’s Care and Cost Blog What is the path forward for physicians who want to remain in private practice, outside the constraints of health system employment? How will the environment change and what new demands … Continue reading
The Economics of Being a Practicing Physician: Greater Frustration, Lower Income, More Defensive
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Posted 4/26/12 on Health Populi One-half of physicians believe they’re not fairly compensated for their work – in particular, those working in primary care. Only 11% of doctors considering themselves “rich.”Medscape’s 2012 Physician Compensation Report compiled data from over … Continue reading
Surveyed Physicians Are Gloomy About Health Care Reform
Patricia Salber Posted 3/12/12 on The Doctor Weighs In Recently, The Doctors Company (TDC), the country’s largest insurer of physician and surgeon medical liability, decided to survey doctors to determine what they are thinking and feeling about health reform. The results are … Continue reading
Hope Lies with Residents
Paul Levy Posted 3/1/12 on Not Running a Hospital I remain relatively new to the health care field, but even in that short time, it has become evident to me that the pace of quality and safety enhancements and front-line … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics, Quality, Tools
Tagged Medical Schools, Paul Levy, Physicians, Quality, Safety
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Doctors Going Broke. So What?
Tom Emerick Posted 1/11/12 on Cracking Health Costs According to a nearly breathless article in CCN, some doctors in the U.S. are going broke. Read it here. I feel sorry for anyone who goes broke, but why all the gnashing of … Continue reading
US Doctors Less Sanguine About Health IT’s Benefits
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Posted 1/10/12 on Health Populi To doctors working in eight countries around the globe, the biggest benefit of health IT is better access to quality data for clinical access, followed by reducing medical errors, improving coordination of care across … Continue reading
Paying for Insurers’ “Choice?” A Look at Physician Practice Administrative Costs
Patricia Salber Posted 1/08/12 on The Doctor Weighs In A number of years ago, a family doc friend of mine took me on a tour of his small group practice. He proudly showed me the exam rooms, his medical equipment, … Continue reading
How Doctors Die: Its Not Like the Rest of Us, But It Should Be
Ken Murray Posted on Zocalo Public Square on 12/30/11 Brian’s Note: This article was alluded to in a NY Times blog post called “When Doctors Face Death.” In a clear and rational tone, the author, an experienced family physician, points … Continue reading
Posted in Benefits, Medical Management, Physicians, Quality
Tagged Care, Ken Murray, Physicians, Quality of Life
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Why Medicare Access Is In Jeopardy In Both Salaried and Physician Owned Settings
Jaan Sidorov Posted 12/21/11 on The Disease Management Care Blog Don’t underestimate the physician dismay over the looming “Doc Fix” debacle. Unless some budget compromise gets hammered out, Medicare is about to stick it to a lot of docs. Ever since the passage … Continue reading
Posted in Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Quality, Reform
Tagged Jaan Sidorov, Medicare, Physicians, Sustainable Growth Rate Formula
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Sustainable Health Care: Patients, Doctors and Hospital Executives See Different Futures
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Posted 11/16/11 on Health Populi There is broad consensus among doctors, patients and health administrators that the current U.S. health system is broken and unsustainable; preventive services is under-utilized and -valued, quality is highly variable from region to region and patient … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Consumerism, Market Dynamics, Physicians, Quality
Tagged Hospital Executives, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Patients, Physicians, Sustainability
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America Needs Different Doctors, Not More Doctors
Merrill Goozner Posted 11/10/11 on Gooz News Matt Yglesias at Think Progress took a look at some OECD data comparing U.S. physicians to their international counterparts and concluded we need more doctors. The evidence? There’s only 2.4 practicing physicians per 1,000 population … Continue reading
CMS Wants Docs To Ante Up To CMS Poker Game
Michael Millenson Posted 10/20/11 on Forbes In a high-stakes political, clinical and economic poker game that goes by the name of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has just issued a call for doctors and hospitals to grab some … Continue reading
Perpetuating the Myth: How Managed Care is Bad News for Pregnant Women
Patricia Salber Posted 10/22/11 on The Doctor Weighs In So, I just saw a Kevin Pho MD tweet flash by on my computer screen with the statement “Managed care is bad news for pregnant women.” I clicked on the link in the … Continue reading
Posted in Benefits, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians, Quality
Tagged Linda Burke-Galloway, Managed Care, Obstetrics, Physicians
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