Here is a link to an interview done recently with the television station, WSB, Atlanta. Having discovered that folks from Georgia were traveling to Oklahoma City for their surgery, the crew at the station decided to film their story at our facility. Dr. Gallup, also...
Uh oh. This piece by Craig Ladwig of the Indiana Policy Review, makes the case for a more free market approach to health care in the state of Indiana. While I have never met Mr. Ladwig or talked to him on the phone, you will think that I have, after reading his...
This article is an updated version of the one that Mr. Chase penned after visiting with me in March of 2013, just after I had spoken to a group of third party benefit administrators (those who administer the health plans of self-funded companies) about our facility’s...
Here is a link to the KOKH story about the failure of Obamacare and the role our facility has played in helping patients victimized by this con game. Indeed, more and more patients are finding that they can purchase their care at our facility cheaper than they can...
"The sleeper has awakened." Anyone who has seen the movie "Dune" knows the scene where Paul Atreides proclaims his new awareness. Having recently attended the annual meeting of the Self-Insurance Institute of America I was witness to a new awareness among the...
Integris Hospital system has decided to post prices for a few of the procedures done at their facility. Now before you go off razzing them for the fact that MRI prices are not included in their imaging list and only a few surgeries are included you should stop to...
More physicians are opting out of Medicare every day. The burden of dealing with this bureaucracy, the risk (it is the only “insurance carrier” that has its own F-16’s and tanks), along with below market physician payment underlies this phenomenon....
I stopped accepting payment from the government for my services in 1993. This was one of the most liberating actions of my life, certainly of my career. Recognizing that a payment from Medicare to me came out of the wallet of the young family next door to me for care...
Many of you are following this blog (thank you!) relying on me to provide links to my video blog series in this location, so here are some more. This video blog pertains to the scam of mandated electronic medical records (EMR) systems. This video blog breaks down some...
(I have previously released this as a video blog on our surgery center website…www.surgerycenterok.com….but some of you wanted a transcript…here it is) GKS When my children were young, I used to make up bedtime stories for them, stories they recently...
Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.