The Essentials

Under the direction of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA), individuals and small businesses are to receive a certain package of diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic services and products that are defined as “essential” by the Department Continue Reading …

An Optimal Physician Payment System

The researchers at Harvard have really done it this time!  Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more exciting, they release a study on…typology. Ty-pol-o-gy: [tahy-pol-uh-jee] noun. a systematic classification or study of types. Harvard researchers classified ‘types’ in Continue Reading …

Quality over Quantity: Reforming Payment

A new research report from the RAND Corporation and sponsored by the National Quality Forum offers insight into for medical services. A response to the leading trend among health care payers to pay for quality instead of quantity, the lengthy Continue Reading …