Imagine if you create a stupid grading system and you pay hospital systems more for those at higher risk. How many of you think some of those hospital system would “fudge” those numbers to get paid more? Well, here is one example: Sutter Health agreed to pay $30 million to settle allegations that the Sacramento,…
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This just in: Only about 2% of total Medicare spending is dedicated to primary care under a narrow definition of the term, a ratio that RAND Corp. researchers found surprisingly low in their analysis. The researchers used both narrow and broad definitions of primary care in their study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine on Monday.…
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Here is a quick contest. How many things are wrong with this story? Jeffrey Young wanted to give you a real look inside his clinic. But maybe, just maybe, he showed too much. Young, 43, a Tennessee nurse practitioner who called himself ‘Rock Doc’ and once piloted a reality show about his Jackson clinic, was indicted…
It’s a funny thing about facts and newspapers. Many times they don’t get along, This article in the USA Today is called CDC: 1.1 million more Americans lost health insurance coverage in 2018 Here are their highlights but please read the whole thing so you don’t think I am cherrypicking: Efforts by the Trump administration…
Lawsuits will happen. Deals will be made behind the scenes without anyone admitting guilt. I have seen it for years. In 2017, eClinicalWorks and some of its employees were ordered to pay $155 million for allegedly falsely obtaining certification for its EHR software. Now, we have this: Practice Fusion, an electronic health records vendor acquired by Allscripts…
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