Cutting costs does not cut costs. If we hope to steer health care toward a better cheaper future, we have to wrap our minds around this conundrum: Slashing spending does not necessarily improve the bottom line. Governments in Ireland and the United Kingdom have come...
A reader writes to ask: What about personal responsibility? “I see no movement afoot to require the public to accept or meet norms of behavior that would reduce the need for medical treatment—smoking, excess drinking, use of drugs, over weight, etc. What ever happened...
Lindsey Dunn of Becker’s ASC Review reports on what I had to say to the Ambulatory Surgeons meeting in Chicago the other day: In a keynote address to attendees at the 9th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 10,...
Under the headline, “Medicare Plan for Payments Irks Hospitals,” today’s New York Times details the opposition stirred up by the government’s “value-based purchasing” initiative. If you’re buying anything (and the US federal government is the largest purchaser of...
