NPs and “Full Practice Authority”
WARNING: I have been through one nurse practitioner (NP) firestorm on Facebook about the ideas presented in this post. However, Facebook fails to provide a good...
Tag: Healthcare reform in the United States
art of medicine/electronic medical records/health care reform/MACRA/overuse of technology/reducing health care costs
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...
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...
art of medicine/big business medicine/evidence-based medicine/health care reform/simplistic solutions to complex problems/the sound-bite mindset
The Failure of “Pay for Performance”
In my previous post, I talked about the problems with using “evidence-based” medicine to constrain patient care and avoid dealing with the complexity of ...
big business medicine/health care reform/Medicare "fraud"/physician-patient relationship/reducing health care costs
The Ubiquitous 1500 Claim Form and it’s Sidekick, the EOB
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 for...
