We are living in a world of complexities today and we get good quality data and we get the other side as well. If you watch video #1 in the footer “Context is Everything” Professor Siefe does a real good job explaining how this happens. I see it all the tim…
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There’s more than one area to address here and this is in part what’s making doctors crazy as they have to work within all these parameters. First and foremost so much of it is driven by the insurance industry. I realize they have to keep costs in line and …
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Those selling software in the Health IT business are the only winners here. Patients don’t even know if they are in one and much less what one is. The initial savings for an ACO might show promise but what do you do once you hit the first year or two? A …
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I have never seen anything like this and I’m not happy with either party. I can understand the battle a bit though as the Democratic Dupers have sucked in so much “junk science” that it has irritated the other side to be the party of no with almost any scien…
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I have said this many times here but a lot of insurers are moving the next step up from actuaries to hiring Quants to create news models as most actuaries don’t write code but some are today. Quants can actually audit the actuary function as well . Sometim…
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Not too long ago CMS said such plans should remain flat as far as price increases and once again they were wrong. CMS needs some new models and obviously Burwell is just in a guessing game as she’s not any better than Sebelius in essence and I have not seen …
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It’s been a while since I hit this one but since last time, of course, things are getting worse out there. With prediction tools and apps being all the rage today, their reliability and accuracy are not always there. Before the word “prediction” took over, …
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Well it’s time for a rant and discussion on this topic and to try and take a look at the entire scenario. We read every day about “patient engagement” and sure doctors and patients are still engaging with each other but not using the virtual model that our g…
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Mr. Corday is not alone and sure he has good intentions as do most government executives but he’s just one more out there sucked into “The Grays” of virtual values and can’t see the humans for the algorithms. I named this ugly phenomena a while back and I ca…
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