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Cost-shifting: no longer a concern?
A study refutes the theory of cost-shifting in health care and suggests private cost growth mirrors Medicare. Increasing costs of health care in the United States have been longstanding concerns. Several solutions have been proposed to address this issue; one Continue Reading …
Revising Physician Reimbursement
The Society of General Internal Medicine provides 12 recommendations for reforming payment of physicians. It is commonly thought that the best way to abort the meteoric rise in health care costs is to move toward reimbursing quality and away from Continue Reading …
Will primary care fail us?
The Affordable Care Acts Medicaid expansion is set to take place in just over half of the states. Additional private insurance expansions using health insurance exchanges are set to take place in the next 100 days. However, providing health insurance Continue Reading …
Nurses: the cure for what ails us
A new Health Affairs/RWJF policy brief highlights federal and state laws which limit the extent to which providers. A predicted clinician shortage will worsen as millions of people become insured as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In Continue Reading …
The Dao of Disclosure
What would cure the malpractice crisis? Health courts, superfunds, damages caps? What about simple honesty? Medical malpractice litigation is a major source of angst, expense, and inefficiency in health care. An article in a recent edition of Milbank Quarterly examined Continue Reading …
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