by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 28, 2017 | ACA, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Medicaid Reform, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace, The Triple Aim
This last week Congress has been recessed for the Presidents’ Day holiday week. Paul Ryan accurately anticipated that many of Republican members of Congress would be having town meetings with their constituents and would face angry voters who wanted to talk down the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 7, 2017 | ACA, ACO, Burnout, Costs, Featured Post, Healthcare Transformation, Medicaid Reform, Medicare Reform, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace, Resources, Strategy, The Triple Aim
There is no challenge like the challenge of creating a strategic plan in uncertain times. What do you do when you do not know what to do? That is a question that frequently challenges leaders. Over eight years ago, after Lehman Brothers had failed and the value of the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 24, 2017 | ACA, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Repeal and Replace, the healthcare debate
A few weeks ago those of us who had experienced a few moments of unfounded hope based on positive comments that President Trump had made about the ACA had our hopes dashed when he announced that Representative Dr. Tom Price of the 6th Congressional District of Georgia...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 3, 2017 | Costs, Delivery, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Lean, Presidential Politics, Quadruple Aim, Repeal and Replace
Are you wondering what you and your practice or hospital should be doing while living in the ambiguity of “repeal and replace?” Focus on getting better. That is the short answer. With or without the ACA the challenge to create Care better than we’ve seen, health...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 13, 2016 | ACA, Costs, Delivery, Featured Post, Population Health Management, Sustainability, The Triple Aim
Since the early nineties nothing has challenged physicians grounded in the traditional culture and practice of medicine more than the introduction of the “radical” concept of population health. One could argue that the Affordable Care Act is the legislative expression...