The Crisis Masters of Health and Death

There are three visions of peace in the seemingly never ending, but really rather brief, Israeli-Palestinian perpetual crisis. One peace f...

How to Use CPT 99490 for Healing the Sick

The Medscape Physician Compensation Report puts primary care physicians at the bottom of the heap, with a median earning of less than $200,...

Telemedicine – The Greatest Innovation since Sliced Bread

Did you know that you are a “telemedicine provider”? No? I can’t blame you for not knowing, but you are, and always have been. Well, maybe n...

In Memoriam FFS

On April 16, 2015, President Obama signed into law H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), effectively se...

Value-based Interoperability: Less is more

Interoperability in health care is all the rage now. After publishing a ten year interoperability plan , which according to the Federal Trad...

The Primary Care Journey from Tomatoes to Ketchup

According to OECD data , Americans see doctors less frequently than people in any developed nation. We are hospitalized less frequently and ...

Fixing Health Care: Rockefeller Style

Health care in America is a perfect example of the Pareto principle, because 80% of our gargantuan expenditures on health care are due to on...