Content that pushes boundaries.

Some interesting things:

-Price transparency. Go to www.outofpocket.com. There are over 100,000 prices collected from different sources.  Consumers are allowed to post anonymously for those items that they...

I don’t get it

-Under CMS’ comments, in an attempt to undue the “administrative burden” they will increase the certification period from 30 days to 90 days erstwhile we...

Drop Outs and Co-pays

One of the many “push backs” I get from PT’s, is the effect of higher co-pays that patients have encountered in physical therapy visits which...

Managed Care vs. Care Management

I remember once reading an article several years ago in which  brilliant author Dave Berry dissected 2 different Presidential primary candidates’ stump speeches.  The point...

PT Practices have to stop behaving like chimpanzees

There is an economic principle exemplified in a model called “the ultimatum game”.  Under its scenario, one person (the proposer) is given money by an...

Does A lot of Information Result in Better Choices?

On Friday, Bill Gates had an op-ed piece in WSJ.  He correctly points out delivery of health care is in a crises (the system itself...

Here’s to you, Arthur

And I am not talking the babbling drunken playboy character played by Dudley Moore or the amorphous aardvark of children’s animation. A little over 3 weeks...

Where is PT in the debate of self-referral?

Apparently and unfortunately, not in this Sept 12th WSJ Health Blog (subscribers or available for 7 days), Feds Crack Down on Physician ‘Self-Referral” per this...

Can’t Beat ’em Join ’em

From WSJ, Dr. Benjamin Brewer in The Doctor’s Office makes a compelling case for retail clinics and in fact will be starting one. Except for...

P4P Redux-Consider the Source

From the Medinnovation blog, a good piece on the perspective of P4P initiatives.    Seems like all of the SCHIP talk and the impact on therapy...