At the risk of overstaying my welcome on this subject, I thought I might comment on a recent story in the New York Times concerning practice pattern variation and the Wennberg guys at Dartmouth. The Times article — published on May 30th — focused on the fact that the resource use for elderly patients during the […]

There’s a big debate going on right now in Massachusetts about whether or not physicians should be allowed to accept gifts of any kind from pharmaceutical and medical device company representatives. In fact, the Massachusetts Senate passed legislation — currently before the House — that prohibits all kinds of gift giving — travel, honorarium, subscription […]

One of the reasons the operating model in health care doesn’t change much over time is pretty simple: most of the people who think about it, write about it, work in it and study it have trouble seeing the model any differently than they see it today. I was struck, therefore, by Hebrew Senior Life’s Len […]