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One of the by-products of the Affordable Care Act, the so called Obama Care, is the rise of high deductibles. High deductibles have always been around; the difference is the volume. In most practices, the volume of high deductibles has been sparse as most patients are either... Read More

Amid evidence that better care-coordination means improved outcomes, and fewer mistakes and costly hospitalizations, the Obama administration issued a policy change whereby the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will pay physicians a monthly fee to coordinate care for... Read More

So the statistics since the ACA start-up tell us that Emergency Department visits are up. What?? Wasn’t that kinda the point; reduce ED visits in favor of office visits with Family Practice Providers as the reality of insurance encourages better healthcare behavior? Well. Yeah,... Read More

When the government web site for enrolling in “Obama care” crashed and failed to handle the traffic, the president called in the top IT experts who had experience in dealing with problems of this magnitude and the results were a fixed web site. How did they do it? The google... Read More

Original blog post was written by the associates at Simas & Associates, LTD, a government and administrative law firm. The information given is used with their permission. A link to the entire article has been provided below. The Affordable Care Act (the ACA, aka ‘Obamacare’)... Read More

When the government web site for enrolling in “Obama care” crashed and failed to handle the traffic, the president called in the top IT experts who had experience in dealing with problems of this magnitude and the results were a fixed web site.  How did they do it?  The google... Read More

When AOL President and CEO Tim Armstrong told a town hall meeting that a couple of AOL’ers had spent $1 million each for distressed babies the social media and AOL staff went off the charts.  And while calling out the 2 AOL employees publically should not have been aired; what’s... Read More

Receiving the right healthcare begins with having the right information in the right hands.  To those who see multiple providers, coordination of care may be the difference between consistent improvement and no improvement in chronic illnesses.  It may also help identify changes... Read More

We don’t make a lot of New Year’s predictions, but we are happy to make this one: 2014 will be the year the get-well-quick mentality driving corporate and individual health choices implodes…and people start taking genuine steps to be healthy. The way to ensure that 2014 is your... Read More

One of the by-products of the Affordable Care Act, the so called Obama Care, is the rise of high deductibles.  High deductibles have always been around; the difference is this…..volume.  In most practices, the volume of high deductibles has been sparse as most patients are either... Read More