Monthly Archives: March 2011

One thing that’s on the horizon that I’m pleased about is Medicare fraud prevention. The government typically has not put much effort into preventing fraud in fee-for-service Medicare. If you had a medical license and a tax ID number and you submitted a bill, they paid it.—few if any questions asked. Continue reading →

When we’re trying to figure out why premiums are increasing rapidly—and when we’re trying to do something about it—why do we keep focusing our efforts and our legislation on the one aspect of health care spending that’s decreasing as a percentage of total cost? Continue reading →

Defensive medicine is the phenomenon whereby a doctor orders a test or a procedure not because he or she believes it’s required based on the science, but to ward off a possible future lawsuit.

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Until they invent a machine that shrinks health care costs, we’ve got to be sure we’re using expensive technology because we need it and not just because we can. Continue reading →