Sample Medicare Opt-Out Forms
These form are successfully used by a practicing physician. Click here to return to main information page on opting out of Medicare. Medicare Opt-Out – General Guidelines This is a basic document to explain how […]
AAPS News August 2016 – MACRA: Pokemon Go for Doctors
The latest fad, a “free” smartphone app called Pokémon GO, has reportedly exceeded even Twitter and pornography in popularity. One hospital has banned it for employees because they were glued to their screens instead of interacting with patients.
Making American Medicine Great Again
by Jane M. Orient, M.D. The Republicans are at it again: trying to tweak a bad idea, make it “bipartisan,” and set a flawed system more firmly in concrete. What we really need is a […]
Doctors May Do a “Brexit” from Medicare
American physicians have already been declaring independence from Medicare, states the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), but the imposition of new payment methods may lead to a rush to imitate the British in exiting the regime of a remote, unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy.
Death by Regulation
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. Farzad Mostashari, who spent two years leading the White House effort to implement electronic health records, has argued that Medicare’s new physician payment […]
Meaningful Use, Charlie Brown, Lucy and the Football
By L.R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.A.N. Physicians who took the government’s incentive cash to adopt electronic health records are now subject to audits. All they had to do was sign the attestation that they were […]
Bad by Design
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. As most Americans are finding out, Obamacare is a bad deal for them. This is not a flaw, but a feature. As Devon Herrick […]
Electronic Medical Records: The Potemkin Village of Healthcare
By Gerard J. Gianoli, M.D. – http://EarAndBalance.net Legend has it that in 1787 Grigory Potemkin erected a fake portable settlement along the banks of the Dnieper River in order to fool Empress Catherine II during […]
Legislative Update Special Edition: The War on Opiates
Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD summarizes recent healthcare-related legislative activity on Capitol Hill. There is no question that opiate abuse – both legal and illegal is on the rise in all demographics. Congress introduced several laws […]
Sanders: What Will His Socialist Plan Do to YOUR Medical Care?
By Jane M Orient, M.D. There is one thing that supporters and detractors of Bernie Sanders might agree on: he seems to be honest about his convictions. He is an avowed socialist, instead of pretending […]
