Practice News

Health Care 2009 – Wall Street Journal Commentary
Health Care 2009 July 7, 2008 Washington is caught up in another one of its health-care spending burlesques, and liberals are belting out their favorite tunes. The GOP wants to “wipe out Medicare as we know it,” sings Harry Reid. “The Bush Administration is perfectly happy to have billions of dollars going to insurance companies instead of [...]

Chicago Doctor Converts
Up at 3:30 a.m. In the office at 5 a.m. Paperwork and hospital rounds for two hours. Back-to-back appointments until 3:30 p.m. Then another four hours of administrative duties before heading home. This was Dr. Dragan Djordjevic’s daily schedule until one day he just couldn’t take it anymore. Chicago Tribune. Go here for article.

Delay in Medicare Physician Cuts
By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON – The Bush administration said Monday it will delay paying doctors for treating Medicare patients in early July to give Congress more time to block a scheduled 10.6 percent fee cut. The decision by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services doesn’t block the cut, scheduled to take [...]

Insurance Companies Dump Concierge Doctors
One of the issues faced by doctors deciding to move into concierge medicine is whether their insurance companies will keep them on their panels. As we know, it is virtually impossible to predict what certain companies may do. A recent article in the Houston Chronicle sheds some light on what some companies in Texas are [...]

Short Newsweek Article
Daniel Khani was feeling healthy, but he did have a medical problem or, rather, a problem with medicine: he thought he wasn’t getting enough of it. The basic physical he got each year was, well, basic. Khani, a wealthy real-estate investor, was accustomed to better treatment in the rest of his life. So in September, [...]

Dr. Keenan’s Response to Article from Commonwealth Fund
If you consider the top five options noted in the report, with respect to anticipated revenue gains, this is a grim report which bodes ill for physicians and patients, effectively addressing in only one respect an urgent health care need.1. A center for medical effectiveness essentially marries data doctors have, about efficacy of treatments, to data [...]

MediaLife Article-Return of the Family Doctor
Here is what Keidi Dawley, writing for Medialife, had to say in this January 14th article: “Norman Rockwell thought so much of him that he drew him again and again through his long years as an illustrator famous for his iconic images of American life, and that he was, the family doctor.He was there on [...]

New News Article from Florida
See this new news article by David Gulliver yesterday in Sarasota’s HeraldTribune.com regarding the concierge practices in the Sarasota area.

Business Week Article
An interesting article appeared in the November 12th issue of Business Week. Here’s the link to that article. The essence of the article is a report on the Commonwealth Fund’s recent study of the healthcare systems in seven countries, including the U.S. Their conclusion seems to be, based on patient surveys, that the U.S. is [...]

A Posted Comment from a Doctor
Here’s a new post from a concierge physician, whose blog link has been added to the Blogroll (see conciergedoc): “Ironically, I’m in the midst of starting our own retainer model practice, from scratch.  It’s actually along the lines of a hybrid model, where I am seeing both concierge patients, as well as traditional PPO,Medicare patients.  This way, [...]