Healthcare is changing dramatically, and not just for patients. The nature of physician employment, too, is undergoing disruption. More and more, physicians who remain independent are banding together under a management services organization (MSO), a legal entity that allows physician practices to share resources, limit risk and gain the necessary efficiencies to compete in a consolidating market.
In 2009 I wrote about my first-hand frustrations as a physician with Press Ganey patient satisfaction surveys. A decade on, has my hell gotten worse?
The cost of healthcare has become a hot topic in American politics in recent years, and with good reason. A recent Bankrate survey found that 22 percent of Americans are losing sleep over healthcare or insurance costs, up from 13 percent just one year ago.
After providing scant details for months, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) released the key planks of their healthcare plans in July. In it, they staked out positions differentiating themselves from other presidential primary frontrunners, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
America is a leader in many respects, but there is an alarming exception: We are the only industrialized nation on earth where the rate of mothers dying before, during and after childbirth is growing.
