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The Flaws in “Evidence-Based” Medicine

Posted on October 6, 2014 5:54 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

These days the moniker “evidence-based” has been attached to almost any statement about the practice of medicine and health care reform. Since a goodly number of people are really afraid of the notion of statistics, it’s very easy for anyone to slap the label “evidence-based” on a medical decision and get away with it—very few…

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big business medicine/electronic medical records/health care reform/patient-centered care/physician-patient relationship

Nothing New About the Medical Home

Posted on September 22, 2014 12:48 am by dhaugen / 0 Comment

Aaron Carroll, one of the writers for The Incidental Economist, has reviewed some of the research on whether the Medical Home is more successful in small or solo practices than in large medical organizations. The notion of the Medical Home wasn’t on the top of my list for hot topics, but my eyes caught the…

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A Gun in Every Pocket

Posted on July 3, 2014 10:18 am by dhaugen / 0 Comment

I did not grow up with guns, never took a gun training course, and have no interest in tromping around looking for some deer or goose that I can shoot and eat. Nonetheless, I now live in a state where people give their kids guns for their birthdays. Before the oil boom in western North…

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health care reform/reducing health care costs

Excuses Here, Excuses There…

Posted on April 9, 2014 8:27 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

It’s bad enough that the care physicians provide their patients is discounted beyond what any reasonable person would consider fair. Unless you are a medical coder and biller, the public has no knowledge of how the insurance companies and federal and state governments further derail their payments to physicians. When a physician provides care to…

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The Ubiquitous 1500 Claim Form and it’s Sidekick, the EOB

Posted on November 11, 2013 3:49 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

Unless you are involved in billing for medical claims, the 1500 Health Insurance Claim Form has probably escaped your radar, at least up to now. This is the form health care entities fill out and submit to Medicare, Medicaid, and insurance companies in order to be paid for the care they provide patients. If you…

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