CPC+, The New “Better” Physician Reimbursement from CMS
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is constantly coming up with ways to cut payments to physicians in the name of improving health care qualit...
Author: dhaugen
Death by Follow-up Appointment
It’s hard enough to get an appointment with a primary care physician, but when that primary care physician recommends your seeing a specialist, getting that app...
Novice to Expert
The novice-to-expert yellow brick road has been examined form many perspectives, including the nursing perspective. Having been pretty hard on nurses in “...
North Dakota Medicaid and Erectile Dysfunction
There’s a lot of talk, much of it really nasty, about how physicians overcharge patients by providing numerous unneeded services to pad their bills. It...
The Rural One-Doc Town
The rural healthcare landscape is tremendously varied. For the many physicians practicing in metropolitan areas, I suspect it is hard to imagine practici...
