What if I were to tell you that those hospitals which were “outed” as charge abusers by Steven Brill in his massively boring TIME Magazine article will ultimately be the biggest beneficiaries of this diabolical piece of journalism? Stay with me and...
Thanks to the indefatigable Jeremy Snavely of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) for filming and posting this video of my remarks to a group of AAPS members in Austin. You can more closely follow the diagram with an explanation at the...
Check this article out. Trudy Lieberman, an associate professor of public health has written what logicians refer to as a “straw man” piece. She compares our facility’s pricing to….well…she compares us to Nirvana…where everything...
Here’s a Forbes review of a WSJ article that gives us a heads up about what exchange insurance products will look like and how they will work. Dr. Scott Gottlieb points out that the design of Obamacare is identical to Medicaid, in that increased demand will be...
Assume a group of people, aware of the possibility of conflicts; and then someone proposes, as a solution to this eternal human problem, that he (someone) be made the ultimate arbiter in any such case of conflict, including those conflicts in which he is involved. I...
One of the epiphanies I experienced in medical school was during our human behavior course when, in the course of discussing the primary emotions that we experience, the professor said this: "How you feel about a person or event is your decision. How you feel about...
Years ago, I hired a carpenter to build a deck in my backyard. This scraggly guy showed up with a pencil behind his ear, a spiral notebook and a tape measure. I told him what I was looking for, what kind of wood and how big I wanted it to be. He made two or three...
I gave a talk in Austin, Texas earlier this week to the Texas Association of Benefit Administrators. While there, I met Dr. Jeff Rice, creator of “Healthcare Blue Book.” He and I had talked on the phone once before, but had never met. I was reminded of...
Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.