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Price to cut ties to healthcare companies if confirmed for HHS
By Jay Hancock and Rachel Bluth January 13, 2017 (KAISER HEALTH NEWS) – When tiny Australian biotech firm Innate Immunotherapeutics needed to raise money last summer, it didn’t issue stock on the […]
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Montana May Be Model For Medicaid Work Requirement
By Eric Whitney, Montana Public Radio December 23, 2016 | Kaiser Health News Montana State Senator Ed Buttrey is a no-nonsense businessman from Great Falls. Like a lot of Republicans, he’s not […]
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FORBES: The Physicians Foundation recently released its findings from this...
48 percent of surveyed physicians plan to cut back on hours, retire, take a non-clinical job, switch to “concierge” medicine or take other steps… By Walker Ray, MD and Tim Norbeck, Forbes, […]
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ZEROING in on ZIKA … Columbia.edu & CMT Friend, Dyan Summers, DNP
Story and photos by Gregg McQueen SUMMER 2016 – Dr. Dyan Summers may have just received her doctorate in nursing practice from Columbia University School of Nursing – but years ago, she […]
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Cordes, MD: “Someone Call a Doctor! The Value of Physician Product...
By Sanaz Cordes, MD OCTOBER 28, 2016 – We are lucky to live in an age where entrepreneurs are diving feet-first into an industry that desperately needs them. For so many years, […]
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NATIONAL: Large Employer Health Plans Could Also See Some Impacts From...
By Michelle Andrews January 18, 2017 If you think that because you get health insurance through your job at a big company, you won’t be affected if Republicans overhaul Obamacare, think again. Several...
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DPC: Working With Networks ~by Dino William Ramzi, MDCM, MPH
Blogging at dinoramzi.com I have been involved in medical education, practice management and the medical care of the underserved all my career. My passion is quality improvement in clinical...
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Trump, Price and Hill GOP at odds on Obamacare
Politico.com, January 17, 2017 Donald Trump and his pick to lead the Obamacare repeal effort, Rep. Tom Price, share a vision that the current health care system needs to be completely uprooted. […]
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WATCH: Tom Price confirmation hearing, LIVE
Tom Price confirmation hearing SOURCE: POLITICO WATCH LIVE … http://www.politico.com/livestream1
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Health Law Sleepers: Six Surprising Health Items That Could Disappear With...
By Julie Appleby and Mary Agnes Carey January 12, 2017 The Affordable Care Act of course affected premiums and insurance purchasing. It guaranteed people with pre-existing conditions could buy health...
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Trump Health Secretary pick’s longtime foes: big government and insurance...
The New York Times, January 17, 2017 If confirmed, Tom Price, 62, will soon have far more power to influence the nation’s vast health care system than he ever did as a […]
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For $149 a Month, the Doctor Will See You as Often as You Want — Docs office...
A health-care startup is using fancy digs, fitness trackers, and a membership fee to change doctor visits. By Rachel Metz January 17, 2017 San Francisco health startup Forward, which opened to the […]
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The Hill: Nominee Tom Price is the doctor HHS needs
By Former Rep. J. Phillip Gingrey (R-Ga.), opinion contributor – 01/17/17 07:40 AM EST As a physician and former member of the House of Representatives from 2003 to 2014, I am very […]
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EP. 23 | The DOCPRENEUR PODCAST: “Franchising” Concierge Medicine
Duration: 33:40 | LISTEN TO ENTIRE PODCAST … Dr. James Pinckney II, believes in the old adage that integrity and hard work are critical to building customer loyalty. A visionary, he founded […]
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Make Healthcare Great Again!
By HINT HEALTH, DPC JOURNAL CONTRIBUTOR, Julian Wise President-elect Trump’s Impact on Direct Primary Care President-elect Trump says his plans for healthcare reform are ‘huge’. We weren’t sure how...
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CNN: “Why do I need 535 people in Washington, D.C., to fix things?” asks...
He’s currently working on an idea about telemedicine, and he points to transparent pricing and a movement toward “concierge medicine,” in which doctors bypass insurance and charge a set rate to be […]
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DNA & GENOME SEQ: Making a life plan based on your DNA
Ten years ago, geneticists would look only at one or two genes and test for individual diseases. Now, with Next Generation Sequencing, a more rapid, cost-effective approach to genome sequencing,...
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PRESS RELEASE: Activate Healthcare & Health Benefit Resources Announce...
Agreement Expands Successful Employer-Sponsored Primary Care Clinics Into Northern and Central Illinois Chicago, IL (PRWEB)January 11, 2017 Activate Healthcare and Health Benefit Resources, Inc. have...
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RESEARCH (MedScape): Genetic Testing Shows Scope of Familial...
By Marlene Busko December 30, 2016 – DANVILLE, PA and TARRYTOWN, NY — Genetic testing of more than 50 000 adult patients in a large US healthcare system identified that 1 in […]
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CMT SPOTLIGHT: Lancaster General Health/Penn Medicine announced last week...
PENN. “Concierge-style medical practice opens in Lancaster County” By Lenay Ruhl, September 8, 2016 at 3:00 AM Imagine having unlimited access to your doctor without having to make a copay for each […]
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