There was a story in the Boston Business Journal last week about the delays incurred by the MA Health Care Quality and Cost Council in trying to put up a web site that would show — for the first time — what the private sector actually pays providers for health care services in Massachusetts.

The story says, and […]

For The Record — I am a member of the Board of Trustees of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). The Board of Trustees is NOT the same as the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors is the governing body that has fundamental oversight responsibility for the hospital. The Trustees serve as an ancillary […]

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 […]