TRANSCRIPT: Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. The biggest scam of all. It’s the Unaffordable Care Act, isn’t it? Obamacare. When I just say ‘Affordable Care Act,’ many of you are smiling...
"The free market doesn't apply to healthcare." I don't know how many times I have heard this, although the pricing and quality resulting from the Surgery Center of Oklahoma's and others' implementation of the principles and discipline of the market has caused many...
TRANSCRIPT: Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. More scams. Let’s talk about a couple together. One is ICD-9/ICD-10. These are coding regulations and these complicated numbers physicians are...
Here is a link to a study from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University (PDF) that objectively shows what most honest people have always instinctively known: that the purpose of certificate-of-need (CON) laws are quite simply to limit the number of providers in...
TRANSCRIPT: Hello. Dr. Keith smith with you, Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. Let’s keep going with the scams and review one we’ve gone over before in previous blogs – uncompensated care. When I say ‘uncompensated care,’...
One of the most hard-hitting writers in the healthcare industry is the editor of “Outpatient Surgery Magazine,” Dan O’Connor. The piece, here, is no exception. Keep what you read in mind whenever you hear some shameless politician or bureaucrat belch out the usual...
Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. Here’s scam #2: ‘pay-for-performance.’ First, let’s cover ‘pay for no performance.’ That would be what HMOs or ACOs (Accountable Care Organizations) do....
TRANSCRIPT: Hello, Dr. Keith Smith with you, Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me in this video blog series. Here’s scam #1, as promised. Let’s start with electronic medical records. You know, the state has such great ideas, they have to be mandatory....
Hello. I’m Dr. Keith Smith with you from the Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. While I think it’s important for everyone to understand the good news of the application of free market principles to healthcare and how that...
TRANSCRIPT: Hello. Dr. Keith smith with you again, coming to you from the Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. There are lots of exciting things happening here at the Surgery Center and here in the state of Oklahoma and I’d...
Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.