by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 7, 2021 | Dr. Robert Pearl, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Uncaring:How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors & Patients, Zeev Neuwirth
May 7, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Dr. Pearl Says That The Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients As I was thinking about the subject for this post I was delighted to receive an email notification from my old friend and former colleague...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 16, 2021 | Adaptive Change, Build Back Better, Continuous Improvement, Dr. Marshall Wolf, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical, Health in America, Healthcare Transformation, Inequality in Healthcare, The Triple Aim, transformational change, Universal Access, Waste in healthcare
April 16, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, How We Get Paid Makes A Difference In What We Do Over the years I have probably used one quote from Dr. Robert Ebert in these notes more than any other idea, quote, or concept from any other source. Even if...
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 | Mar 2, 2021 | Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Financial challenges of primary care., Future of Heathcare, Health in America, Healthcare as a Right, Healthcare Transformation, Improving Ambulatory Practice, Inequality, New England Journal of Medicine, patient centered care, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
The latest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine was waiting for me in my mailbox yesterday when I dropped by the post office. I was delighted to see that it was the March 4th edition and I was happy to get it on time. The mail comes very irregularly...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 23, 2021 | “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:, Administrative Waste, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Fee for service payment, healthcare finance, Inequality in Healthcare, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement
That we have lost 500,000 souls to COVID-19 is hard to process. It really doesn’t help much to hear 500,000 dead Americans from the COVID pandemic is more lives lost than in our summed casualties of World War II, the Korean Conflict, and the War in Vietnam. I...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 16, 2021 | “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Dr. Robert Ebert, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Innovation in Healthcare, medical home, Poverty and healthcare, Racial Inequality, Social Determinants of Health, team based care, the centrality of Primary Care, the filibuster, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement
If you have avoided these notes for the past few weeks, you may not know that I have been systematically reviewing the recommendations of the Commonwealth Fund’s Task Force On Payment and Delivery System Reform. There are six sections to the report. So far we have...
