by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 19, 2019 | ACO, Boston Medical Center, Costs, CVS, CVS/ Aetna Merger, Featured Post, Innovation, MACRA, MassHealth, MD, patient centered care, Population Health, The 2020 elections, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement
19 April 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Troy Brennan And CVS Are Betting on Medicare For All and Risk This week I traveled to Boston for the annual meeting of the combined boards that serve the Boston Medical Center. There is a hospital board....
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 12, 2019 | ACA, ACO, Atrius Health, Featured Post, Massachusetts Blue Cross, PPO contracts, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim
I like trains. Perhaps it is because my maternal grandfather worked all of his life for the Seaboard Railroad. Some of my earliest memories are of going down to the train station with him when we would visit the little town in North Carolina where I have had family...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 28, 2018 | Access, ACO, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Judge O'Connor's threat to the ACA, The Most Significant Healthcare Issues for 2018
28 December 2018 Dear Interested Readers “Zwischen den Jahren” Is a Good Time For Reflection We have a friend in Germany who lived with us as an au pair more than thirty years ago. She now has her own family and a successful public relations...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 4, 2018 | ACA, ACO, Bernie Sanders, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Medicare For All, Public Option
Last Wednesday my wife and I drove down to Boston so that she could do a little holiday shopping with a friend while I saw the nurse practitioner who was going to do my periodic health review and give me a flu shot. Somewhere between New London and Concord on...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 26, 2018 | 2018 Midterm Elections, ACA, ACO, Costs, Future of Heathcare, Lean, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement
26 October 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Doing an “A4” on Payment and Delivery System Reform If the term “A4” is a fuzzy concept for you, or is not in your vocabulary, let me refer you back to the Healthcare Musings post for October 12 where you...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 15, 2017 | ACO, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, hyperpartisanship, the healthcare debate, The Senate's turn at healthcare reform, The Triple Aim
Last week when I copied and pasted the conclusions in the JAMA article by President Obama I discovered that Google Drive did not know the word “hyperpartisanship.” . Did Google’s ignorance of hyperparisanship suggest that we are experiencing something new?...