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Generic Manufacturers: The Saviors 23 Sep 2011 | 06:50 am
Just saw this pop up on my blog reader and couldn't resist having a little fun and making a few edits.... GPhA: Generic drugs will save $931B over 10 years The Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GP...
Cartoons Debate Profits in Health Care & MLR 19 Jan 2011 | 10:30 am
A very amusing animation about medical loss ratio (MLR), otherwise known as the amount of money insurers should be required to spend on care versus administration. Likely developed by insurers -- who ...
Cartoons Debate Profits in Health Care & MLR 19 Jan 2011 | 05:30 am
A very amusing animation about medical loss ratio (MLR), otherwise known as the amount of money insurers should be required to spend on care versus administration. Likely developed by insurers -- who ...
Journalists Know More About Dealing with Patients (Than You Doctors) 11 Jan 2011 | 05:45 am
In case you didn't realize that journalists understand how to engage with patients better than physicians, just read this recent Boston Globe editorial and be educated! Evidence mounts of problems in...
Wondering About EMR Meaningful Use and How to Get Paid? 8 Jan 2011 | 09:00 am
I recently received a request to help decipher this thing called "Meaningful Use", which has the health care community all abuzz. It's an incentive program that has been laid out by the federal govern...
Guest Post: Industry Funding of CME 14 Dec 2010 | 04:48 am
The last post highlighted a Boston Globe article regarding the role of industry funding in continuing medical education ... in response to the Globe article, I receive this hypothetical interaction be...
Mass Medical Society: Protecting Physicians / Patients? 7 Dec 2010 | 07:15 am
Here's a 3-minute clip from of Mass Medical Society President Alice Coombs, MD, discussing their position on payment reform in MA. The Boston Herald covered the topic today, which the CommonHealth B...
Payment Reform: One Primary Care Physician's Response 3 Dec 2010 | 03:36 pm
The last post on the Boston Globe's coverage of payment reform generated a number of responses, but one seemed to capture the sentiments most accurately. With permission of the author, here it is for ...
Will "Global Payments" Help or Hurt Patient Care? 2 Dec 2010 | 04:22 pm
The mid-term elections are over; the 2011 legislative session is on the doorstep; and the policy wonks and MA political junkies are salivating in anticipation of possible legislation on payment reform...
*** PUBLIC COMMENT ON PAYMENT REFORM *** 2 Dec 2010 | 03:00 pm
** SAVE THE DATE ** State's Health Care Quality and Cost Council to hold Public Forum on Payment Reform Members of the Massachusetts Health Care Quality and Cost Council (HCQCC) and its Committ....
