Category: Archived Blogs
To Join or Not to Join an ACO
In a recent business article from the American Medical News they do a a pretty good job explaining
Continue readingMedicare Disease Management Program Fails!
According to a NEJM study, commercially-run disease management programs within Medicare neither improved the quality of care nor
Continue readingThe Elusive Medical Home
The supposed savior of family medicine is the “medical home”. Hold on, I can’t stop laughing. Okay, the medical…….wait, still
Continue readingThe Medicare Obesity Decision
A new Medicare ruling means that doctors will be paid for screening for obesity and counseling of those eligible beneficiaries. What
Continue readingAdministribbles
Change in the healthcare system seems like a good thing we don’t know yet whether it will be worth it.
Continue readingThe Pzifer $4 End Run
A few senators have now gotten into the scrum going on with Pfizer basically blocking the generic release of Lipitor.
Continue readingCompliance and the Doctor
It is a well known fact that patients often don’t fill their prescriptions or even take the medicine if they
Continue readingSoft Launch of Site
I will soon be moving this blog and a lot of my other works to www.authenticmedicine.com. I am in the
Continue reading