Fixing Health Care
By Wayne Caswell, Modern Health Talk founder An NPR story this week described a Congressional Budget Office report that tied health care to recent and future increases in the federal deficit, suggesting that the Affordable Care…
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Fee-For-Service is Pervasive yet Perverse
The FFS payment model was created long ago, during a time when physicians treated less-complex problems and offered only a few inexpensive therapeutic interventions. It worked back then but a significant percentage of patients today have…
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Regulations Not Keeping Up with Technology
By Wayne Caswell The rapid and accelerating pace of tech innovation has profound implications for healthcare delivery & payment, aging, and disability employment, but regulations that support that are spotty or nonexistent. The good news “Durable…