Insuring Our Nations Veterans
Photo courtesy the City of North Charleston, SC (Creative Commons / Flickr) Myth: All United States military veterans receive health insurance. Fact: More than 1.5 million U.S. veterans were [...]
Understanding Implications of the Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data
This week, Medicare’s public release of “Provider Utilization and Payment Data” has caused quite a stir. Yet, it has raised more questions than it has answered. From what I have [...]
Make it rain!
I decided to search the New York Times database to figure out how much money the contributors to this blog made off of Medicare after the uproar yesterday about overpaid doctors. I was a bit [...]
Medicare paid me $112,134
Click the image to see how much Medicare paid me in 2012. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a massive amount of information today regarding how much money it paid out to [...]
Can telemedicine save money?
Photo by Ted Eytan (Creative Commons / Flickr) This study capitalized on a natural experiment: A company that owned several nursing homes in Massachusetts decided to invest in telemedicine, [...]