Posted on February 3rd, 2009 by ffortin
The Worcester District Medical Society's member forum on retail-based health clinics outlined the clinics' potential impact on physicians and some strategies that physicians can use to respond to their entrance in Massachusetts. William Ryder, regulatory and legislative counsel for the MMS, summarized the two-year struggle by a coalition of concerned providers to ensure that retail [...]
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Posted on November 2nd, 2007 by ffortin
MMS President B. Dale Magee, M.D., M.S., said on Nov. 2 that physicians must actively participate in efforts to solve the problem of rising health care costs. Speaking at the opening session of the Interim Meeting of the MMS House of Delegates, “We can’t just stand outside and say this isn’t going to work. We [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by ffortin
In opening remarks at the Massachusetts Medical Society’s eighth annual State of the State of Health Care Leadership Forum on Oct. 18, 2007, MMS President Dale Magee, MD, provides an overview of the status of the sectors of the Massachusetts health care system Listen to the podcast (Length 18:04) (This will open your computer’s default [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by ffortin
Robert Blendon, Sc.D., of the Harvard School of Public Health, shares the the results of surveys about the public’s opinions of the Massachusetts health care reform law. Excerpted from remarks delivered at the Massachusetts Medical Society’s 2007 State of the State of Health Care Leadership Forum. Listen to the podcast (Length 10:35) (This will open [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by ffortin
Stephen Schroeder, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco, discusses the possible effectiveness of various health care cost-containment strategies in the United States. Excerpted from remarks delivered at the Massachusetts Medical Society’s 2007 State of the State of Health Care Leadership Forum. Listen to the podcast (Length 10:32) (This will open your computer’s default [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by ffortin
Maggie Mahar, Ph.D., author of "Money-Driven Medicine," contrasts the consumer-driven model of health care with the patient-centered model, and concludes that patient-centered health care is more likely to provide better quality better patient experience, and perhaps even control costs more effectively. Excerpted from remarks delivered at the Massachusetts Medical Society’s 2007 State of the State [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by ffortin
Michael Gusmano, Ph.D., of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, discusses the impact of health insurance status and ethnicity on health care access, and their implications for the cost of health care. Gusmano compares access and clinical outcomes in New York City, London and Paris. Excerpted from remarks delivered at the Massachusetts [...]
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Posted on July 31st, 2007 by ffortin
In July 2006, the Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission, the agency that buys health insurance for all Massachusetts state employees, launched the Clinical Performance Improvement Initiative. This project compiles information on how individual physicians score against various cost and quality standards, then assigns lower co-pays to physicians who score well against the standards. The program has [...]
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