by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 9, 2022 | A story from my life, ACO, Continuous Improvement, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Healthcare equity, healthcare finance, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, Medicare For All, Pioneer ACO, Queen Elizabeth, REACH ACO, System Consolidation, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement
September 9, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Musing About ACO Disappointments This week I have been thinking, or more accurately “musing,” about the current status of ACOs. “Musing” seems to me to be a word that has more depth and feeling than “thinking”,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 2, 2022 | "Wicked Problems" in Healthcare, 2022 midterm elections, ACA, ACO, COVID, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Global Warming, Governor Abbott, Governor Ron DeSantis, Joe Biden and the Future, Life Expectancy, Martin Luther King Jr, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, Politics and Healthcare, Public Health, Ronald Reagan, Social Determinants of Health, The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, The Triple Aim
September 2, 2022 Dear Interested Readers. Where Is The Quality of Healthcare On Our List Of Concerns? It does not take long for the hot topics of the day to change. It wasn’t that long ago that Democrats were debating “Medicare for All” versus “Medicare...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 15, 2022 | ACO, Biases, Climate Crisis, COVID uncertainty, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Culture, Dualism, Economic inequality, Featured Post, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Implicit Bias, Inequality in Healthcare, Pioneer ACO, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, REACH ACO, Richard Rohr, structural racism in medicine, The impact of a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, The threat to women's reproductive rights, The Triple Aim, Tom Friedman
July 15, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Thoughts on Dualism, The “War of Attrition” in Ukraine, Inequality In Value-Based Reimbursement, and Inherent Biases in Medicine. From time to time when I am thinking about all the human misery in the world that is...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 5, 2021 | ACO, capitation, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Vanguard Medical, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, medical home, Primary Care, Primary Care Challenges, Social Determinants of Health, team based care, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement
March 5, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, More Thoughts About The Importance of Primary Care Now that Donald Trump is off Twitter and mostly out of sight except for occasional appearances at places like CPAC, I find that I have more time to think...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 12, 2021 | “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:, ACA, ACO, Adaptive Change, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, capitation, Continuous Improvement, Dean Robert Ebert, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, healthcare finance, Inequality in Healthcare, Process Improvement, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, The 1619 Project, The Challenges to Be Met If We to Have Universal Coverage, The President's Trial in The Senate, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement
February 12, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Health System Accountability for Heath Care, Quality, Equity, and Cost It’s been a remarkable week in Washington. One of the benefits of retirement is that every day is Saturday. I have spent most of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 25, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, ACO, Atrius Health, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, MassHealth, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement
25 October 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Pondering What the Future Might Hold My last letter to my colleagues at Atrius Health was published on October 25, 2013. In that letter I reviewed what I thought some of the challenges of the future would...