Blog
Exchange Rates
The administration releases a major proposal to change how it pays for Medicare Part B drugs that will rock both the pharmaceutical industry and physicians for whom this is a major part of their business.
READ MORE »The Headline Writers
A new report shows the 67% of commercial payments to providers in Virginia are ‘value-based,’ but it takes little more digging to understand what that really means.
READ MORE »Skimming the Morning News
A survey of current news stories paints a picture of significant industry disruption, threats and opportunities.
READ MORE »Embracing Destruction
Large employers continue to advance telemedicine and onsite workplace clinics, changes that represent potential threats to primary care physicians.
READ MORE »Hello, William Shatner
The Secretary of Health and Human Services floats an idea of having physicians help patients navigate price comparisons for their prescriptions.
READ MORE »Two Lemmata
CMS announces that premiums for the benchmark silver plans with actually go down in 2019, reversing several years of double-digit increases.
READ MORE »Two for One Sale
A new study shows that a high-touch primary care model, in a capitated setting, reduces hospitalizations and lowers overall cost.
READ MORE »Money in the Couch Cushions
The number of healthcare consumers that go online for price and quality comparison information continues to rise.
READ MORE »Bigger in Texas
Baylor, Scott and White in Dallas and Memorial Hermann in Houston have announced plans to merge, which would create yet another massive regional health system.
READ MORE »The March to $1 Trillion
Medicaid spending now approaches $600 billion a year and is projected to top $1 trillion in just another decade.
READ MORE »
Tim Coan, ALN’s CEO, writes an insightful and witty blog three times a week about a variety of topics relevant to independent physician practices.
Yes, I'd like to get Tim's blog.
ARCHIVES
2018
2017