An Inside Look at Health Care for the Elderly and Medicare

Given the spiraling and often unnecessary expenses with which Medicare must grapple, it is no surprise that this essential bastion of...

With the Presidential elections upon us, I have written a 3-part series about the politics of Medicare. In Part One, we will talk about...

An interesting and revealing incident occurred regarding one my patient’s medicines for dementia. I am not an advocate for using...

As a corollary to Erik’s hospital experience as described in our JAMA article from July 2016, we will assess four medical interventions...

Several days after we met in Baltimore to discuss and plan a video about our BRCT concept, Erik Rifkin did not feel well. Always...

A year ago HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced that Medicare would be dramatically altering the way doctors are paid. She stated that...

There is no question that CMS has every right to demand better value in health care. Medicare’s coffers are being drained, as a...

How can quality be measured in health care? Certainly Medicare feels that they have the answer. Half of primary care doctors’ MIPS...

I spent last weekend at the Lown Conference in Chicago. For those who do not know about Lown, it would be wise to find out more...

Nothing is more pervasive in our medical consciousness than the idea that seeing a doctor, getting regular tests and cancer screens, and...