This article is loaded with info. Here is my breakdown: 1) No one went to jail. When hospitals commit Medicare fraud, they pay fines. When doctors are accused of doing this, they go to prison. 2) The HCA mouthpiece, Fishbough, blamed the doctors. I...
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Poles Dancing!
In a recent exchange on one of the social media sites, a Canadian, proud of the socialized health system in “his” country, said what most Canadian’s say: that their system is wonderful and that all of the complaints are just undocumented...
Ivory Tower of Nonsense
"We’re all in this together." "Our common goal is to spread the condition of human misery across as wide a group as possible.” “When it comes to health care we must consider ourselves a collective.” ”Individual preferences take a back...
Our New Website Unveiled
Our new website launched last night about midnight. Thanks to the folks at Liquid Media, Brad Riggan and Andrew Harris in particular, for their hard work. There are so many new features, rather than list them, I will just encourage everyone to explore the site. There...
Euthanasia: A Budget-Balancing Tool
The Associated Press’s Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar’s headline reads: “Medicare good till 2026; Social Security no worse.” A quote from the article: “An overall slowdown in health care spending is helping Medicare. Spending cuts in President Barack Obama’s health care...
Perspective and Vigilance
I haven’t felt much like writing since the tornadoes came through here. The death and devastation associated with this natural disaster help put a lot of things into perspective, though. That the Oklahoma legislature considered using taxpayer money ($80...
An Update on Our Facility
Here is an update on some of what’s happening at The Surgery Center of Oklahoma. We have recently decided to accept credit cards for payment of services. The price online will be adjusted at the time of payment to reflect the percentage the respective card...
TARP-like Bailout Comes to Oklahoma!
It looks as if the Oklahoma legislature has provided the dowry to the Oklahoma State University osteopathic hospital that Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City was looking for. The state budget provides for $18.5 million to bail out this hospital, interestingly, $250,000 more...
Good News in a Bad News Industry
I have come to the conclusion that the main reason my medical free market and transparent pricing message has been so widely and warmly embraced is very simply that it is good news. I have been viewed as a good news guy in a bad news industry. That “here is...
A Swing and a Miss
If this is the best the statists can do we are in good shape. Dr. Peter Ubel, no Rothbardian, asserts that price transparency could actually increase the price of healthcare (Lasik?) and that while cardiologists and other super specialists make too much money,...
Oklahoma’s Top Surgeons & Anesthesiologists
Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.
- Anesthesiology
- Ear, Nose and Throat (Otolaryngology)
- Foot and Ankle
- General Surgery
- Neurosurgery
- Gynecology
- Ophthalmology
- Oral and Maxillofacial Plastic Surgery
- Orthopedics
- Reconstructive Plastics
- Urology