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Articles by David C. Kibbe
Comments and a Response to "The Tyranny of the Diagnosis Code" by Slee and Colleagues
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Better management of long-term heart disease risk needed following complicated pregnancies
Practical guide to primary care in the year after an adverse pregnancy outcome associated with future CVD. Credit: DOI: 10.1007/s11606-021-07149-x Researchers at Boston Medical Center have created a new resource for managing long-term heart disease risk after specific pregnancy complications. Heart disease risk is revealed by several common pregnancy complications, such as preeclampsia and preterm delivery.
Healthcare reform's deeper problems
Congress' healthcare reform debate has highlighted how American governance is broken and the difficulty of addressing our national problems. Take, for example, whether healthcare is in crisis at all. Conservative commentators argue that America's health system is fine, that our excellent care simply costs more than other countries' poorer quality, and that most uninsureds can afford coverage. They ask why we should revamp a great system for the two or three percent of Americans who get less.
Is the Healthcare Economy Rightsizing?
More than at any time in recent memory, powerful forces are buffeting the health care sector. We are in the midst of profound upheaval, driven by market and policy responses to the industry's long-term excesses. We can already see evidence that the dysfunction of our traditional health system is accelerating. It also seems clear that the center cannot hold indefinitely. Dog Eat Dog It is useful to remember that the health care industry's different stakeholders are adversaries.
Keeping Everyone in the Know: New CMS ADT Rule
By David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA | April 21, 2021 On March 9, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule aimed at enhancing interoperability and increasing patient access to health information.
Quit The RUC | Kaiser Health News
Recently, a Wall Street Journal expose and a New York Times column by Princeton economist Uwe Reinhardt detailed how vast health care resources are steered by the American Medical Association’s Relative Value Scale Update Committee — or RUC, a secretive, 29 person, specialist-dominated panel. Since 1991, the RUC has been the main, if unofficial, adviser on Medicare physician reimbursement ?
Information Blocking Under Attack: The Challenges Facing EHR Developers and Vendors
In March 2017 Milbank Quarterly, researchers Julia Adler-Milstein and Eric Pfeifer found that information blocking — which they define as a set of practices in which “providers or vendors knowingly and unreasonably interfere with the exchange or use of electronic health information in ways that harm policy goals” – occurs frequently, and is motivated by revenue gain and market-share protection.
ONC Report on Health Information Blocking: A Solid Double, But NOT a Home Run
Last Friday ONC (the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT) released a long-awaited Report On Health Information Blocking.
Why CMS should settle with primary care plaintiffs
By mid-November, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) must respond to the legal complaint filed in a Maryland federal court by six Augusta, Georgia family physicians. These doctors are not asking for money, but for relief from the negative effects brought about by CMS’ twenty year reliance on the American Medical Association’s Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) for valuing doctors’ work.
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