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 | Feb 5, 2019 | ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs), capitation, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Hill-Burton, Hospital Utilization
The hospital in my little town was one hundred years old this last year. It was launched by three local physicians, Dr. Nathan Griffin, Dr. Charles Lamson and Dr. Anna Littlefield, in collaboration with women in the community. A local woman of some prominence, Jane...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 1, 2019 | Activism in Healthcare, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Healthcare in 2019, Improving the health of the poor, Population Health, Poverty, The Triple Aim
1 February 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Poverty in the Midst of Plenty, Stress, and Health When I look back on my professional life I realize that my practice was primarily populated by individuals and families that were mostly from the middle...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 29, 2019 | Dean Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Vanguard Medical, healthcare finance, Innovation in Healthcare, Population Health, The Triple Aim
One thing that I am learning about first hand these days is ageism. I have experienced having young clerks walk right past me as if I was invisible to serve a younger customer who has just appeared. There is a wider gulf between generations than just familiarity with...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 25, 2019 | Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Population Health, Poverty and healthcare, Presidential Politics
25 January 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Who Is Responsible? A few weeks ago, for the first post of the year, I returned to writing about the intersection of poverty and healthcare. One motivation was the realization that this year was the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 18, 2019 | Featured Post, Inequality, Population Health, Poverty, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
18 January 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Don Berwick On Our Responsibility to Address the Social Determinants of Health If you have not read the last few postings, let me suggest that you quickly catch up by skimming last Friday’s note. In that...