Here’s a great story about a physician who has shrugged off his chains and will continue to practice, albeit in a very different way. The main beneficiaries of his move are his patients whose care and records will remain private.
We operated on a patient recently from Pennsylvania who had first gone to see an orthopedic surgeon in his hometown who was a hospital employee. The patient said that the surgeon didn’t seem to care one way or the other whether surgery was done. He gave no guidance...
This editorial by Wendell Potter, former public relations executive at CIGNA and currently with the Center for Public Integrity, has much to teach us. He uses the phrases “free market” and “invisible hand” for starters. He also refers to...
It never fails. Someone always finds fault with the fact that we are charging a tenth of what most not for profit hospitals are charging for the same services. “But what about those who can’t come up with $3740 for their knee arthroscopy,” is a common critique, one...
Imagine that all of the parents that have sent their kids to an elite college took away their credit cards and put them on a budget. ”Any money you want to spend beyond what I send you at the first of the month will be your business to find, ” might be...
This article from John Goodman’s NCPA (National Center of Policy Analysis) highlights our facility. This article is an excerpt of comments I made during a radio interview with KRLD, in Dallas last week. G. Keith Smith, M.D.
Here is a podcast I did earlier this week with Pat Campbell of KFAQ, Tulsa for those of you interested. G. Keith Smith, M.D.
Michael Carney of “pandodaily” writes this about our facility having seen the KFOR piece earlier this week. G. Keith Smith, M.D.
Here is a link to the story television station KFOR’s Ali Meyer did on price transparency and medical tourism in Oklahoma, featuring our facility. G. Keith Smith, M.D.
Tonight, a local news station, KFOR, will run a segment on price transparency in healthcare, featuring our facility. Here is what I anticipate the hospitals will say in response to the channel four (KFOR) story by investigative reporter, Ali Meyer: 1) We set our...
Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.