Earlier this year, the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions published a survey of health care consumers that covers a lot of ground. In fact, I would recommend it to anyone who’s interested in learning about what’s on consumers’ minds these days. The report itself is quite long, so I won’t try to capture everything it […]

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 […]