Bingo Medicine

It was a dark and stormy night. My computer didn’t catch fire while typing the previous sentence. No alarms were triggered warning me abo...

Make Health Care Great Again

Click here to view: Reading of the Donald J. Trump children's book by Jimmy Kimmel We don’t win anymore in health care. After repeat...

Meaningful Use is dead. Long live something better!

At the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Mr. Andrew Slavitt , acting administrator at the Centers for Medicare & Me...

Dear Madam/Mister Future President

As I am writing this, you don’t yet exist, and I hope you never will. As I am writing this, at least half a dozen people are still standin...

The Heart and Soul of MACRA

Ms. Jeannie is a 65 years old woman, slightly overweight with mild hypertension that is perfectly controlled. Ms. Jeannie is the office ma...

Iowa is voting on Health Care tonight

In his last State of the Union address, President Obama stated that “anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fic...

The Era of Value Based Care

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is working hard to transition physicians’ payments from volume to value of services. ...

Hacking Doctors… to Pieces

For decades and decades we have been counting the number of doctors in America. For decades and decades we have been coming up short compa...