When someone is arguing that our health system needs an overhaul, one of the most common reasons they cite is because it is "built on a flawed foundation of fee for service." Of course we blame fee-for-service reimbursement for the rampant overtesting, overtreating, and fragmentation (among other things) in our health system, but this doesn’t mean that it is inherently bad, and here’s why.
First, a little contextualization will help. Fee ...
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While attending the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Annual Forum recently, my friend, Jared Conley, and I had the good fortune of finding ourselves standing a table away from Don Berwick in a relatively empty conference room. As MD/PhD in Health Policy students, we were interested in asking him a question about ACOs, so we approached him and introduced ourselves, hastily adding, "We know you’re busy, so we just have ...
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