by Steve Berkowitz | Jan 20, 2015 | Health care reform, The Future of Administration, Uncategorized
State Medicaid Expansion– An opportunity to learn and build a better mouse trap The 2012 Supreme Court ruling changed the ground rules for the ACA with Medicaid. States now have the ability to accept or decline the Federal ACA Medicaid expansion. As of the...
by Steve Berkowitz | Jan 14, 2015 | Current Events, Health care reform
Opting Out of Obamacare Treating the Symptoms, NOT the Disease Starting this year many Americans will feel the pain of tax consequences if they did not purchase health insurance under the ACA mandate in 2014. This year the penalty is $95 per adult and $47.50 per...
by Steve Berkowitz | Dec 15, 2014 | Current Events, General, Health care reform, The Future of Administration
In order for health care insurance to be successful, all have to participate. It is a simple rule in insurance– the unaffected ultimately pay for the effected, whether it is health insurance, home insurance or life insurance. Economically, the program can only...
by Steve Berkowitz | Jun 30, 2014 | Health care reform, Pharma, Transparency
The Physician Sunshine Act, a component of the ACA, has been in place since October of last year. It requires pharmaceutical companies to collect and track all financial relationships with physicians and teaching hospitals. The goal of the law is to enhance patient...
by Steve Berkowitz | Jun 16, 2014 | Health care reform
Years ago in my psychiatric residency (before I switched into internal medicine) I was taught that patients “do not change until the pain of staying the same exceeds the pain of changing”. How true in psychiatry! It’s another way of telling the...
by Steve Berkowitz | May 30, 2014 | Health care reform, The Future of Administration, Transparency
Price Transparency… the train has left the station Five Guidelines for Smart Transparency As we proceed toward Pay for Performance and value enhancement, we have seen a huge rise in transparency in medicine. The effect has been unprecedented in terms of...
