Author Frequently asked questions. 528 items Posts pagination Newer 1 … 5 6 7 8 9 … 53 Older Why did Haven fail? February 25, 2021 By Cheryl Clark MedPage Today, February 19, 2021 When they made their bold announcement in mid 2018, three corporate powerhouses — Berkshire Hathaway, Amazon, and JP Morgan Chase — were going to revolutionize the healthcare delivery system. After all, they had author, innovator, and surgeon Atul Gawande, MD, at the helm. But less than three […] Quote of the Day Stanford business professor discovers administrative sludge February 24, 2021 A new study finds that dealing with health insurance administrators costs the U.S. economy billions in wasted work time and lost productivity. By Edmund L. Andrews Stanford Graduate School of Business, February 23, 2021 It’s no secret that health care in the United States is tangled in wasteful red tape. A study in 2019 estimated […] Quote of the Day Private equity investment in nursing homes February 23, 2021 By Atul Gupta, Sabrina T. Howell, Constantine Yannelis & Abhinav Gupta National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2021 Abstract The past two decades have seen a rapid increase in Private Equity (PE) investment in healthcare, a sector in which intensive government subsidy and market frictions could lead high-powered for-profit incentives to be misaligned with the […] Quote of the Day California’s new single payer bill February 22, 2021 By California Nurses Association National Nurses United, February 19, 2021 Renewing its commitment to the larger fight for health care justice, the California Nurses Association (CNA) is pleased to sponsor Assembly Bill 1400 (Kalra), the California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act (CalCare), which would guarantee comprehensive, high-quality health care to all California residents as […] Quote of the Day Are Medicare Advantage plans going to take over the food industry? February 19, 2021 By Karl T. Johnson, B.A.; Deepak Palakshappa, M.D.; Sanjay Basu, M.D., Ph.D.; Hilary Seligman, M.D., M.A.S.; Seth A. Berkowitz, M.D., M.P.H. HSR, Health Services Research, February 17, 2021 From the Discussion In this study of nationally representative data, we found support for both directions of the relationship between food insecurity and healthcare expenditures—food insecurity is […] Quote of the Day ‘Choosing Wisely’ has been disappointing February 18, 2021 By John N. Mafi, M.D., M.P.H.; Rachel O. Reid, M.D., M.S.; Lesley H. Baseman, B.A.; Scot Hickey, M.S.; Mark Totten, M.S.; Denis Agniel, Ph.D.; A. Mark Fendrick, M.D.; Catherine Sarkisian, M.D., M.S.P.H.; Cheryl L. Damberg, Ph.D. JAMA Network Open, February 16, 2021 Key Points Question: Have low-value care use and spending decreased over time with […] Quote of the Day CBO report on Medicare for All February 17, 2021 By CBO’s Single-Payer Health Care Systems Team Congressional Budget Office, December 2020 Abstract In this paper, CBO describes the methods it has developed to analyze the federal budgetary costs of proposals for single-payer health care systems that are based on the Medicare fee-for-service program. Five illustrative options show how differences in payment rates, cost sharing, […] Quote of the Day El-Sayed and Johnson: A citizen’s guide to Medicare for All February 16, 2021 By Abdul El-Sayed, M.D. and Micah Johnson, M.D. Sample excerpt: When analyzing how health reform proposals do (or do not) address these problems, it is also helpful to keep in mind the “active ingredients” of Medicare for All described in Chapter 3. To review the six key elements of M4A: Universal coverage. M4A guarantees health […] Quote of the Day Russell Mokhiber explains why private Medicare Advantage plans are a bad deal February 15, 2021 By Russell Mokhiber Corporate Crime Reporter, February 13, 2021 Carolyn Adessa worked for fifteen years as an art therapist for the Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center. When she retired in 2010, she went on traditional Medicare. But sometime in 2014 or 2015 her union, SEIU 1199, without her consent, switched her out of traditional Medicare. This […] Quote of the Day Beware out-of-network payments in Medicare Advantage February 12, 2021 By Austin Frakt and Tynan Friend The Incidental Economist, February 10, 2021 The complexity of Medicare Advantage (MA) physician networks has been well-documented, but the payment regulations that underlie these plans remain opaque, even to experts. If an MA plan enrollee sees an out-of-network doctor, how much should she expect to pay? The answer, like […] Quote of the Day Posts pagination Newer 1 … 5 6 7 8 9 … 53 Older
