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Why the Potential CVS Acquisition of Aetna is Brilliant, The Law of Unintended Consequences
By FRED GOLDSTEIN Many people have been surprised by the announcement that CVS is interested in purchasing Aetna. Why would a PBM want to own a health plan? There has been speculation that the move by Amazon to get into the pharmacy space may be a reason...
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Mon, Oct 30 2017 1:33 PM
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“Mouths full of gold.” Private practice in Britain’s National Health System
By SAURABH JHA, MD When Aneurin Bevan was asked how he convinced doctors to come on board the National Health Service (NHS) he allegedly replied, “I stuffed their mouths full of gold.” Bevan recognized that to conscript doctors to the largest socialist...
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Sun, Oct 29 2017 10:50 AM
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To Achieve Its Goals, Population Health Needs More Specialists
By VIKRAM REDDY, MD I attended a Population Health conference this summer where a number of representatives from large health systems and physician organizations convened to discuss common challenges. Many of my healthcare colleagues assume that anything...
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Sat, Oct 28 2017 11:03 AM
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Is Obamacare Dead?
By STEVE FINDLAY “It’s dead. It’s gone. There’s no such thing as Obamacare anymore. It’s no longer – you shouldn’t even mention.” — President Donald J. Trump October 17, 2017 Not so fast, President Great-Again. First off, this is an obviously and...
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Fri, Oct 27 2017 8:40 AM
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Super Macranomics
By KIP SULLIVAN This is the second of a two-part series on MedPAC’s October 4 decision to recommend the repeal of the MIPS program. In Part One , I gave the MedPAC staff credit for urging the commission to support repeal of MIPS, and I criticized their...
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Thu, Oct 26 2017 10:02 AM
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The Future Will Be Blogcast
By THCBist #The Four Things Keeping Hospital CEOs Awake at Night This Year (Hint: Donald Trump Isn’t One of Them) #Valuing Value-Based Payment # I Refuse to Tell You What to Eat # Price Transparency Tools Are Still Struggling. We Offer Advice # EHR-Driven...
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Wed, Oct 25 2017 11:04 PM
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My 14 Year Old Cancer Patient May Be Addicted to Opioids. What Do I Do?
By JULIE KIM, MD I’m a pediatric oncologist, but cancer is not always the most serious problem my young patients face. Currently one of them, a 14-year-old boy, his mother, or both may be opioid addicts. I may be enabling their addiction. Tragically,...
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Wed, Oct 25 2017 1:43 PM
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ACOs: An Act of Faith, Theory, Hope, or Evidence? What Do the Data Say?
By ROSS KOPPEL and STEVE SOUMERAI The recent Health Affairs Blog piece by Chernew and Barbey (October 17, 2017) provides a helpful theoretical summary of the various ways ACOs might achieve savings—even if modest or still latent. But their analysis of...
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Wed, Oct 25 2017 10:03 AM
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I Refuse to Tell You What to Eat
By MICHEL ACCAD, MD A recent tweet from JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association, urged me andother doctors to “include nutrition counseling into the flow of [our] daily practice.” Along with the tweet came a link to an article that outlines...
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Tue, Oct 24 2017 9:12 AM
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Price Transparency Tools Are Still Struggling. We Offer Advice
By PETER, BELL & FINDLAY The potential of price transparency tools to help consumers with high out-of-pocket medical expenses remains largely untapped, according to two recent studies published in Health Affairs and other recent research by Consumer...
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Mon, Oct 23 2017 10:32 AM
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Steve Findlay
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Kenzen’s ECHO Smart Patch Uses Data Improve Health For Users
Innovation in healthcare tech has seen a major influx in recent years given the continued growth in wearables and the potential for the use of data analytics to improve health. Kenzen is making a difference by creating a wearable smart device enabled...
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Mon, Oct 23 2017 9:50 AM
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MedPAC Sinks Deeper Into the MACRA Tar Pit
By KIP SULLIVAN, JD The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has done it again. At their October 4, 2017 meeting they agreed to repeal the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), an insanely complex and evidence-free pay-for-performance...
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Fri, Oct 20 2017 11:01 AM
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Do Doctors Deserve Mercy?
By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD This past week a video went viral when a woman complained about the lengthy wait time at a clinic. On video, we see the physician asks if the patient still wants to be seen. The patient declines to be seen, yet complains patients...
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Thu, Oct 19 2017 1:09 PM
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Niran Al-Agba
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Gallogly
Could OpenNotes Transform the Analytics Marketplace?
By MICHAEL MILLENSON Could OpenNotes help push predictive analytics from paternalism to partnership? As new payment incentives make it profitable to prevent illness as well as treat it, new technology is offering the tantalizing prospect of accurately...
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Wed, Oct 18 2017 12:17 PM
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5 Drivers of Healthcare’s Decentralized Future
By Indu Subaiya & Matthew Holt The contrast between the recent hurricanes in Texas and Florida is illustrative of the progress made in health IT in the past decade or so. In 2005, there were huge losses of patient data after Hurricane Katrina, because...
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Wed, Oct 18 2017 9:29 AM
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