Points of Interest
06/26/2014
An
AHRQ-funded study published in this year’s Annual
Review of Public Health examines and contrasts the effects of
regulation and public reporting of the quality of care by various providers,
including nursing homes, hospitals and physicians.
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How doctors can embrace direct-to-consumer advertising
Health care professionals should embrace direct to consumer advertising as it isn’t going away. How? Just imagine a world (or just the U.S. and New Zealand as I think they are the only Western nations that allow direct-to-consumer advertising) where after every time a drug company markets a drug to consumers, especially a potentially habit forming drug, these companies also have to pay for an intervention like this one that gets those very same people off of their drug when it is no longer indicated or inappropriately prescribed. Now that would make me sleep more comfortably at night.
A country doctor’s proposal for health insurance reform
Health insurance needs to be simple to understand and administer. It needs to promote wellness, and it needs to remove barriers from seeking advice or care early in the course of disease. It needs to empower patients to use health care services wisely by aligning patients’ and providers’ incentives.
1.
Have the insurance
company provide a flat rate in the $500 per year range to patients’ freely
chosen primary care provider, similar to membership fees in direct care medical
practices.
2.
Provide a prepaid card
for basic health care, free from billing expenses and administration.
3.
Unused balances can be
rolled over to the following years, letting patients “save” money to cover
co-pays for future elective procedures.
4.
Keep prior authorizations
for big-ticket items, both testing and procedures, if necessary for the health
of the system.
5.
Keep specialty care
fee-for-service.
6.
Have a national debate
about where health care ends and life enhancement begins and who should pay for
what.
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