In this 20-minute podcast, Owen Dahl, MBA, FACHE, CHBC, author of Think Business! Medical Practice Qualtity, Efficiency, Profits discusses the current issues facing our representatives in Washington including -- his best guess on the 10.5% Medicare issue, the difference between national health insurance and single payer insurance, who are the key players to watch in Washington, the changes in DC that will have an impact on private practices, and how physicians and adminstrators can keep in touch with their representatives and how they can get involved on a local level.
Dr. Jeff Gruen, Chief Medical Officer of Revolution Health discusses How Well-Informed Patients Make Better Patients. In this 20-minute podcast Dr. Gruen discusses why patient education is so important, the types of patient education materials patients should have and how physicians can work with patients to provide quality patient education materials. He also gives examples of how well-informed patients are better patients (with better clinical outcomes). http://www.revolutionhealth.com
David B. Nash, MD, MBA, FACP, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Health Policy at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University of Philadelphia author/editor of 17 books, and repeatedly named by Modern Healthcare to the top 100 most powerful persons in healthcare list is interviewed about his latest book, Practicing Medicine in the 21st Century, published by the American College of Physician Executives, www.acpe.org
In this 20-minute podcast interview with Nancy Collins, Publisher of The Journal of Medical Practice Management, Dr. Nash discusses the challenges facing physicians today, the characteristics of an ideal practice, how physicians can improve the quality of their care, how physicians can prepare for pay-for-performance (P4P) and the extra training that physicians might find useful in the new era of medical practice.
Tune in to hear nationally-recognized expert Owen Dahl discuss the following: The impact on the overall health care legislative picture based upon the results of the recent Congressional elections, who are the new “key” players (and the key issues) to watch in the 110th Congress, status of the 5% across the board SGR mandated cut of the physician fee schedule and what role administrators and physicians can play with healthcare issues and politics.
If Congress does not take action over the next few weeks, physician Medicare reimbursements will be cut 4.4% beginning January 1, 2006 and will have nearly 30% in cumulative cuts over the next six years. This effect will have reimbursement rates for physicians at the same levels of the early 1990s!
SoundPractice interviews Dr. James Rice, Vice Chairman of The Governance Institute. Topics discussed are how private practice physicians can help hospitals respond to society's call for more transparency in healthcare. They also discuss the three key characteristics of effective physician participation in hospital and health system governance.
Kent Bottles interviews Eric Novack, MD, practicing orthopaedic surgeon, health policy expert, and radio interview show host discusses his vision for what consumer-driven health care should look like in the United States of America. Various topics include HSA's, views on running a medical practice and using radio to discuss healthcare.
SoundPractice editor-in-chief of The Journal of Practice Management interviews pioneer healthcare policy blogger and strategist Matthew Holt of San Francisco. After a short chat about blogging, they discuss consumer driven health care and what the private doctor's office needs to do to get ready for empowered patients armed with HSAs.
These years have seen a burgeoning of the science of medicine. Diagnostics and therapies that were nearly unimaginable have become commonplace. The best of American medicine is indeed among the worlds best. Though we spend a greater portion of our GDP on health than any other nation, there remains as yawning a gap in access to these wonderful services. In this Editorial from The Journal of Medical Practice Management, Marcel Frenkel, MD, MBA, provides a snapshot of American medical practice in 2005.
Based on the February 2005 Kaiser Family Foundation Health Poll Report, 1,200 respondents were asked to rate the factors they believe to be driving healthcare cost increases. The results were interesting.
As Republican leaders of the Senate head down the path to changing the filibuster rule for judicial nominees, Democrats threaten the "nuclear option" of bringing all work of the Senate to a grinding halt. If we do experience "Nuclear Winter", what will this mean for legislative issues near and dear to the hearts of physicians?
