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Category: OP/notes
Patient Satisfaction is not Patient-Centeredness
As a newly minted physician, I find myself besieged by data about how happy patients are with the care we deliver. Press Ganey, HCAPS, Consumer Reports, US News and World Report were merely the beginning. Now, physician reimbursement is tied Continue Reading …
Niche Services vs. Coordinated Care
Recently, I got three calls from three vendors offering three wonderful services for our members. The first vendor offered the best price to encourage our members to complete their Health Risk Assessment survey. They promised a 60% completion rate for Continue Reading …
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 read on Facebook and Twitter, there seems to be widespread confusion concerning Continue Reading …
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 disappointed to find out that Continue Reading …
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 individual doctors. For the policy nerds Continue Reading …
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