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…
US Healthcare Spending to hit $3.8 Trillion in 2014
Dan Munro wrote that annual U.S. healthcare spending will hit $3.8 trillion this year (~21% of GDP). 11/20/2015: Spending actually has stayed mostly flat at about $3 trillion. There’s good info in his Forbes article and the referenced…
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…