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Economics
Open Payments? More Like Open Pockets.
I’ve been writing a lot lately about how healthcare is impervious to change. Nothing you throw at this… Read More
By July 16, 2025
System Dynamics
Tired of Waiting
A funny thing happens when you get older. You become significantly less willing to wait. For a drink… Read More
By July 9, 2025
Policy
Why National Health Expenditures Keep Rising 
When actuaries from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) release their annual historic and projected figures… Read More
By July 2, 2025
Innovation
A Lesson in Aligned Incentives
For more than 40 years, I’ve heard about the healthcare industry’s need to “align incentives” among its various… Read More
By June 25, 2025
Economics
The Healthcare Workforce Is Back. Was it Ever Gone? Will It Ever Go Away?
A new study is out that demonstrates once again that nothing, not even a deadly pandemic, can stop… Read More
By June 18, 2025
System Dynamics
Health Equity. Health Equity. Health Equity.
Candyman. Candyman. Candyman. Candyman. Candyman. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. Health equity. Saying the first sentence in the mirror may… Read More
By June 11, 2025
Economics
Three Physician Practice Ownership Trends to Watch
My favorite biennial healthcare report is out, and as always, it never fails to disappoint from a news… Read More
By June 4, 2025
Outcomes
Et Tu, Outpatient Coders?
Hospitals and doctors engage in their own version of upselling. It’s called upcoding. It’s when they assign billing… Read More
By May 28, 2025
System Dynamics
Gas Stations and Hospital Prices
I drive through the intersection of Butterfield Road and Spring Road in Elmhurst, Illinois, all the time. It’s… Read More
By May 21, 2025
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