Business of Health Care

  Physician extenders, such as Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and Physician Assistants (PAs), have played a rapidly increasing role in the delivery of healthcare – they constitute an estimated 229,000 of the care providers in the U.S. compared to 661,000 MDs. (1) (2) (3)  As healthcare trends toward leaner reimbursement rates, increased regulation, and a greater [...]

While most purchases the average American makes involves a level of risk, health care is a risk that is very hard to predict and is also one that can be impossible to afford, but often necessary.  Third party payers in the form of insurance companies are utilized to help spread this risk, and thus the [...]

In 1979, a federal court ruling barred the public from seeing what individual physicians earn from Medicare. The case stemmed from a lawsuit filed by the Florida Medical Association (FMA) and the American Medical Association (AMA). President Carter’s administrator had sought to publish a list of the annual Medicare reimbursements to all doctors. The FMA [...]

In the second Business of Health Care lecture, we are proud to present Dr. Jami Doucette, MD, MBA. Dr. Doucette is the President and CEO of ModernMed, Inc. In this lecture, Dr. Doucette shared his vision for how concierge medicine can fit into the current health care system and revolutionize how primary care is delivered [...]