Medicare To Remove SSN From Beneficiary ID Cards

Per April 20 New York Times article , Medicare will begin to integrate a 8-year plan to replace current Medicare ID cards with new cards.  T...

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Value-based Interoperability: Less is more

Interoperability in health care is all the rage now. After publishing a ten year interoperability plan , which according to the Federal Trad...

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The Primary Care Journey from Tomatoes to Ketchup

According to OECD data , Americans see doctors less frequently than people in any developed nation. We are hospitalized less frequently and ...

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Fixing Health Care: Rockefeller Style

Health care in America is a perfect example of the Pareto principle, because 80% of our gargantuan expenditures on health care are due to on...

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Blue Shield CA To Issue One-Time Refund on Grandfathered IFP Plans in California

Received notice from Blue Shield that they will be issuing a one-time premium refund to approximately 31,500 grandfathered individual & ...

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