MACRA…An Open Letter to Andy Slavitt
I am not a physician, so have no credentials to be telling the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) how to run hospitals, much less physicians how t...
Category: health care reform
North Dakota Medicaid and the Wrong-Sized Paper
I have posted often about the methods insurance companies use to avoid payment on claims, whether it’s the claim submission process itself in “The 1500 and it’s...
art of medicine/CAH hospitals/electronic medical records/evidence-based medicine/health care reform/patient-centered care/rural health care
Sent to a Rural Hospital to Die
Rural hospitals are struggling in many areas, in part because the Critical Access Hospital (CAH) designation was created by the Centers for Medicare and Medicai...
art of medicine/health care reform/overuse of technology/patient-centered care/physician-patient relationship/rural health care
Attracting Physicians to Rural Medicine
“American medicine is probably the best in the world, but they rush too much and do too much unnecessary surgery.” Dr. Bohdran Hordinsky (1991) Ha...
art of medicine/big business medicine/CAH hospitals/health care reform/overuse of technology/rural health care
The Disappearance of Rural Obstetrical Care
The United States infant death rate has always been far higher than that in other developed countries. Now researchers are finding that in the United States, th...
