Moving Toward Fee-for-Outcomes Medicine

By Bob Chestnut, MD Improved patient outcomes should be the bottom-line. Unfortunately, it is not. Instead, the true current bottom-line is billable patient services. This is in part due to the fee-for-service payment model, pervasive in healthcare, which causes a well-documented misalignment of economic and social interest. It causes economic force to primarily promote billable … More Moving Toward Fee-for-Outcomes Medicine

Team Based Medicine

By Erin McAdams, MD    Picture compliments of http://worldartsme.com/ When you go to the doctor’s office, you might be fooled into thinking that your doctor is the person managing your healthcare. In some respects, you would be right. The person you are seeing in your appointment is in fact contributing to the management of your health … More Team Based Medicine