Subsidies aren’t enough to ease the financial pain of EHR transition for some docs. We’d all like to think that regulating electronic health records (EHR) is a good thing for everyone involved, patients and doctors, but it turns out that it’s not that simple. Dr. Oliver Korshin is an ophthalmologist in Anchorage, Alaska, and after […]

CMS will hold 2015 Medicare payments for 2 weeks By: GREGORY TWACHTMAN, Internal Medicine News Digital Network Doctors may have to wait a few extra days to get paid for Medicare services they administer, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced. Claims submitted during the first 14 days of 2015 and dated within that time […]

The Fight for Barbara Boxer’s California Senate Seat on her retirement in 2016 “Let me take just a moment to tell you what makes Kamala Harris so special,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts blogged, encouraging her national donor base to give to Harris. “She’s exactly the kind of leader we need in the Senate,” Sen. […]

Isn’t it a physician’s duty to be perfect in clinical outcomes? The Kansas legislature has introduced SB 96. The disclosure of unanticipated medical outcomes and errors act was introduced in 2015 and has been scheduled for a hearing in Senate Judiciary this week. This bill imposes a duty on health care providers to make mandatory […]

By JUSTIN WOLFERS, DAVID LEONHARDT and KEVIN QUEALY APRIL 20, 2015 For every 100 black women not in jail, there are only 83 black men. The remaining men – 1.5 million of them – are, in a sense, missing. 17 missing black men for every 100 black women. “Missing” menAmong cities with sizable black populations, […]

DONALD J. TRUMP Chairman and President, The Trump Organization Donald J. Trump is the very definition of the American success story, continually setting the standards of excellence while expanding his interests in real estate, sports, and entertainment. He is the archetypal businessman –a deal maker without peer. Mr. Trump started his business career in an […]

DON’T BLAME TRUMP: AMERICAN DEMOCRACY WAS BROKEN BEFORE HE MUSCLED IN BY KURT EICHENWALD | Newsweek | ON 5/3/16 DONALD TRUMP SHOULD BE A NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT THIS FALL AND BERNIE SANDERS SHOULD NOT. In the 2016 U.S. presidential race, that Perónist disdain for the electorate is on display. This is not a judgment on the merits […]

With great power comes great responsibility, and in few places is that more true than the healthtech industry. Practice Fusion is the leading provider of electronic medical records, now helping 130,000 doctors to track records for 25 million patients, CEO Ryan Howard told me today. That’s over 3x the EMRs hosted by Kaiser Permanente or the VA. […]

Or so says Rep Bette Grande, who introduced the bills. North Dakota has all but enacted what would be two of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. . Even those in North Dakota who normally balk at government spending don’t seem concerned about spending money on a fight over the U.S. Supreme Court’s […]

A Special Message from Lew Rockwell April 15th is a horrible day, because it sums up all the wealth destruction called taxation that we are subjected to all year long. As Murray Rothbard pointed out, taxation is the worst method of looting us. Inflation is destructive, of course, and it might make a loaf of […]