An Inside Look at Health Care for the Elderly and Medicare

In previous blogs we have spelled out some of the contradictions and deficiencies inherent to the ACA/CMS campaign to improve medical...

Imagine you are sitting in a 1000 seat theater filled with former or current heavy smokers, and you are told that Medicare will now pay...

Since the ACA plans to pay physicians based on quality and value, it is vital that we determine how these terms are defined and measured....

The increased regulatory burdens placed on primary care practices by HIPAA, the ACA, Medicare regulation/reforms, meaningful use, and...

The following is part of a report that I wrote for the Lown Institute website. You can access the report by clicking the link: LOWN...

In the next several blogs I will explore how the ACA has impacted primary care as of 2015. In my book and my previous blogs I have...

Part of the ACA’s success hinges on its ability to reduce the cost of medical care by better managing chronic illness and by averting...

To those who did not see my op-ed in the Baltimore Sun on 1/30 about HHS's new edict that doctors will be graded on quality and value,...

"Today's announcement is about improving the quality of care we receive when we are sick, while at the same time spending our healthcare...