Good Health and Physician Owned Private Practice Is Still Alive and Well: Here's Why . Elvonda

A death greatly exaggerated... The Population Health Blog recently broke bread with a Director at the Tucker Advisory Group .  TAG provides...

Good Health and Physician Participation in Board of Directors: Transcending the Bottom Line. Elvonda

Two quotes: Healthcare corporate governance in action One is from Citizen Kane : "Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money... if ...

Good Health and Channeling the Fox News Rebublican Debate for Health Care Reform . Elvonda

Last night, the Population Health Blog secured a suitable beverage supply, pulled up a chair and tuned to the Republican Party debate. As pr...

Good Health and The Gap Between Rank and File Physicians and Their Leaders. Elvonda

Awaiting our orders Talk about a study in contrasts. According to this Commonwealth Fund and Kaiser Family Foundation survey , only a minori...

Good Health and Three Downsides to Commercial Health Insurer Consolidation. Elvonda

Writing in The Wall Street Journal , Scott Gottlieb argues that the Aetna-Humana and the Anthem-Cigna combinations are evidence of waning in...

Good Health and Reform of Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate: Be Careful What You Wish For. Elvonda

Be careful what you wish for.  The law of unintended consequences.  I'm from the government and I'm here to help .  These were the n...

Good Health and Health Policy Insights from the Medical Home Summit: Wellness, ACOs. Elvonda

The Opening Ceremony of The Medical Home Summit The Population Health Blog is back home after attending the intellectually rewarding Populat...

Good Health and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Update: A Health Reform Lesson. Elvonda

The 1967 Corvair. A non-PHB version Long ago, when the Population Health Blog was courting the future PHB spouse, our unspoken understanding...

Good Health and CMS and Health Reform: More of the Same. Elvonda

Unmentioned..... Whoa, with breathless media coverage like this ( dramatically change ! ambitious ! ) you'd think that the Feds had jus...

Good Health and Think Bundled Payment is Inevitable? Think Again. Elvonda

Getting bundles of these is easy? This just published Health Affairs article finds some flies in the bundled payment ointment.  The summa...

Good Health and A Path Toward Further Health Reform Is Lined With the IRS?. Elvonda

As attention has shifted to phantom IRS emails, misbehaving Iraqis and our newfound national awareness of soccer's off-side rule, it...

Good Health and A "Penny Dreadful" Take on Health Reform. Elvonda

To the spouse's enduring disappointment, the Population Health Blog has been ensnared by the Showtime horror series Penny Dreadful .  S...

Good Health and Google Bus: A Future for Health Care?. Elvonda

The Population Health Blog's travels have included San Francisco. That's where it got to learn about the " Google Bus" imb...

Good Health and Jack Bauer and Health Care Reform: A Multiple Choice Test. Elvonda

Business travel kept the Population Health Blog from being able to watch the live broadcast of Fox Network's " 24 ."  Good thi...

Good Health and Handling HHS Secretary Nomination Questions. Elvonda

The Population Health Blog notes that HHS nominee Burwell has been scheduled to appear before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and ...