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Consumerism
Scheduling Colonoscopies: What a Pain in the Ass
Dave Crane and I are great friends. We’re both healthcare lifers, theater buffs, of a certain age and… Read More
By April 7, 2022
Policy
Shedding a Tear for Physician Billing Hassles
Self-employed people — like many freelance healthcare writers, producers, designers and public relations professionals I know and/or work… Read More
By April 6, 2022
Innovation
David Johnson’s 2021 HLTH Executive Summary in “Bullet-Point” Journalism
Nobody generates content and creates eye-popping graphics like HLTH. No healthcare business publication synthesizes, opines and writes like… Read More
By March 31, 2022
Economics
$6.8 Trillion and Counting
The big healthcare story of the week, of course, was the latest national health expenditure projections released by… Read More
By March 30, 2022
Innovation
What State Opioid Laws Can Teach Us About Provider Behaviors
I prefer market innovation to legislation and competition to regulation. Why? Because self-motivation is a force more powerful… Read More
By March 23, 2022
Consumerism
Will the Ghost of Primary-Care Past Haunt Our Future?
As Maya Angelou said, “You can’t really know where you are going until you know where you have… Read More
By March 16, 2022
Consumerism
What Does ESG Mean to Patients? Not Much
A friend of mine recently asked me whether I knew anything about ESG in healthcare. I told her… Read More
By March 9, 2022
Economics
Waking Up to Higher Prices for Anesthesia Services
By now, you should know that, as a skeptical journalist, I don’t believe in coincidences. I don’t think… Read More
By March 2, 2022
Consumerism
Are Your Patients Willing to Wait?
I’ve never been much for company-sponsored surveys. They’re all self-serving, and they reach the same inevitable conclusion: our… Read More
By February 23, 2022
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