Why your stitches cost $1,500, part II
Part I is here. All courtesy of Medical Billing & Coding. Both this and the first graphic draw heavily from this blog’s content, as described
Part I is here. All courtesy of Medical Billing & Coding. Both this and the first graphic draw heavily from this blog’s content, as described
Council on Foreign Relations: Interview with 5 experts on effect of US deficit on international competitiveness CMS: News release w/links on implementing Value-Based Purchasing per
As someone who has taken an immense amount of flack from those at both ends of the ideological spectrum about single-payer, I take enormous pleasure
Did I write that single payer is politically infeasible? Yes, I do believe I did, and more than once. (Extra credit to readers who find
Jonah Lehrer with an interesting post reviewing social psychology literature that suggests that human’s do not reason in order to decide, but instead to be
Ezra Klein begs the question with, “Here are a few more papers proposing ways to replace the SGR. I particularly recommend Michael Chernew’s contribution.” What’s the
Peter Neumann, in JAMA, defends the beleaguered QALY. Above all, critics conflate QALYs with rationing. […] They imply that QALYs represent an absence of clinical
While Washington continues to debate the federal IPAB, Vermont has now passed a much more powerful version at the state level, the Green Mountain Care
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