by Joyce Frieden News Editor, MedPage Today OCTOBER 1, 2015 – Time’s up. After years of handwringing, delays, excuses, and predictions of doom: the ICD-10 era begins tomorrow. And surprisingly, there are […]
Ready or Not: It’s ICD-10 Time ~MEDPAGE
FORBES: Census Bureau Confirms How Badly Obamacare Is Underperforming.
By Chris Conover,Contributor SEPT 16, 2015 – The Census Bureau has finally released definitive statistics on the number of uninsured in 2014 and the news is not good for Obamacare (unless, of course, […]
WASH. POST: Fewer Americans skipping medical care for cost reasons.
By Amy Goldstein September 1 at 4:57 PM During the first three months of the year, just 1 in 20 Americans said they did not get medical care they needed because they […]
NEWSWEEK: ‘Obamacare is the picture of health.’
By Kurt Eichenwald / February 9, 2015 9:15 AM EST There’s taking a stand. Then there’s taking a stand in quicksand. And that’s where the Republican Party finds itself. After almost six […]
INTERVIEW: Listen in as Erika explains how the Direct Primary Care model eliminates the co-pays and deductibles
By David Saltzman OCTOBER 12, 2014 – On this episode of ShiftShapers, we welcome Dr. Erika Bliss, President and CEO of Qliance, a Seattle-based pioneer in the Direct Pay Primary Care (DPPC) […]
Canadian Free Press: ObamaCare and a fist full of dollars. ~Dr. Paugh
Nationalized health care in Western Europe, the model for the Affordable Care Act. By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh December 4, 2014 – I’ve watched Americans cheering in mass hysteria for the Affordable […]
Key Performance Indicators and Your Concierge-Style and Direct Care Medical Practice’s Success
Written By Michael Tetreault, Editor, Concierge Medicine Today Key Performance Indicators (KPI), also known as Key Success Indicators (KSI), help a concierge medical practice define and measure progress toward organizational goals (Source: […]
Montana physician happy with concierge practice after four years
By Candace Chase/The Daily Inter Lake | Posted: Saturday, February 16, 2013 10:00 pm Dr. Doug Pitman takes calls from patients anytime and doesn’t mind consulting while on skis at Whitefish Mountain […]
Health Insurance Giants Will Unveil Price Info In 2015
By Bruce Japsen, Forbes Contributor MAY 14, 2014 – The elusive goal to provide consumers more transparency about prices may soon be achieved via a collaborative effort of health insurance giants Aetna […]
DPC JOURNAL: DPC doctor supports SGR repeal and replace while offering an alternative solution to medical insurance woes.
AMG Medical Heads to Washington to Lobby For SGR Repeal and Replace APRIL 1, 2014 – NY – As healthcare reform sweeps the nation, many medical professionals are pushing for fair partnerships […]
Huckabee anticipates in five years “your basic family physicians will either be in concierge medicine or ‘God help you medicine.’”
By Kathryn Mayer COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — APRIL 1, 2014 — Mike Huckabee believes that some of the ideals of Obamacare — such as getting the uninsured insured — are noble. But, […]
OBAMACARE…Part Deux: ‘It seems as though that I am not the only person this is happening to …’ — by Dr. Tiffany Sizemore-Ruiz of Florida
By Dr. Tiffany Sizemore-Ruiz | CMT Contributor | Choice Physicians of South Florida MARCH 28, 2014 – I had quite the surprise the other day. I received my renewal of insurance benefits […]
Why Americans Have Turned Against Government-Sponsored Health Insurance
By Scott Shane MARCH 18, 2014 – Americans used to think that the federal government should make sure everyone had access to health insurance. As recently as 2006, 69 percent of those […]
Obamacare: What Will it Cost if You Don’t Comply?
BY Arlene Weintraub March 14, 2014 — On March 25, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case that has brought to light the potentially high costs of not complying with […]
Obamacare: What Will it Cost if You Don’t Comply?
BY Arlene Weintraub March 14, 2014 — On March 25, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case that has brought to light the potentially high costs of not complying with […]
EXCLUSIVE from DPC Journal: DPC-Medicare Vote on the SGR Bill Today, March 14
By Staff Writer, The Direct Primary Care Journal MARCH 14, 2014 – The Direct Primary Care Coalition (DPCC) joined Physicians from many other organizations in Washington DC, including the American Medical Association, […]
AAPS: Free Markets in Healthcare Aren’t “Broken” – Just Not Allowed to Work
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. Democrats excel at “message discipline”—sticking to talking points whether their script is factually correct or not. Repeated often enough, the script becomes “truth.” Democrats’ script says: “The […]
OBAMACARE PART I: from Physician and CMT Contributor, Dr. Tiffany Sizemore-Ruiz of Choice Physicians of South Florida
By Dr. Tiffany Sizemore-Ruiz | CMT Contributor | Choice Physicians of South Florida FEBRUARY 24, 2014 – Ahh…both my favorite and least favorite topic to talk about…healthcare reform. I feel that, being […]
Washington: Administration announces another delay in ObamaCare employer mandate
By FoxNews.com February 10, 2014 – The Obama administration announced another delay Monday in the requirement on businesses to provide health coverage to workers, giving some employers a reprieve next year while […]
Humana: Obamacare Exchange Enrollment ‘More Adverse Than Previously Expected’
By Avik Roy, Forbes Staff 1/10/2014 – On January 9, health insurance bellwether Humana formally announced something that industry observers have long suspected: that healthy and young people don’t think Obamacare’s insurance […]
