The Health Reform Maze · A Blueprint for Physician Practices

This is your roadmap for health reform to date. Although clear exits and destinations remain murky, Dr. Reece has managed to create a statistically entertaining map for health reform. What makes this book so unique is Dr. Reece's keen insight and understanding of both physicians' and patients' value system. When it comes to trying to understand the current healthcare reform, this book covers it all in easily understandable language, Dr. Reece approaches the unclear issue from the patient and the physician perspectives while still managing to stay compelling, engaging, and even entertaining. This book, ideal for practice managers, physicians, medical directors, insurers, policy makers, and even business school programs alike, is a must-read when trying to tackle the questions surrounding health reform. The book contains blog entries that deliver comprehensive but easy to read discussions concerning the uncertainty, the threat of lower reimbursements, and what practices can do in response to reform. This book breaks the trend of specialized, narrow healthcare reform reports. Because of its multiple points of view and various perspectives, it tells you everything you may want to know about health care reform but were afraid to ask. PART ONE: Culture and Politics, the Reform Law, Costs and Demands, and Unforeseen Consequences Culture and Politics Blue Monday for ObamaCare Obama Rope-a-Dope U.S. Exceptionalism Ask Not: Health Reform Propositions Reform and Repeal Odds Massachusetts and Indiana Experiments Americans and Their Medical Machines The Reform Law "Fiendishly Complicated" Fast-Baked Reform Cake-Off Winners and Losers Known and Unknown Consequences of Reform Law If Not Constitutional, What Then? It Ain't the System, It's Aging Doing the Math Health Costs and Human Nature SNAFU (Situation Normal All Funds Up) Hospital "Facility Fees" Costs of Consolidation Reform Holes You Can Drive a Truck Through Will Public Hospitals be a Health-Reform Causality? Death Knell of Independent Health Agents? PART TWO: Physicians, Hospitals, Patients, Access to Doctors, Medicare, Medicaid, Government Bureaucracy Doctors in America Talk Is Cheap The Physician Organizational Inferiority Complex Primary Care Revolt against RUC Survey: Two-Thirds of Doctors Fear or Oppose Health Reform Law The Future of Accountable Care Organizations The Elephant in the Room: Small Physician Practices Pay-for-Performance, Not so Fast McDuff! Stalking the Noncompliant Physician Reaping Tort Reform Benefits Who Speaks for Physicians? Primary Care in the Dumps Feminization of Medicine Who Decides - Government or Doctors? Hospital-Doctor Hiring Wave Disgruntled Physicians and Unhappy Hospitals Accountable Care Organizations as Private Practice Killers Resolving Hospital-Physician Conflicts Patients "I Told You I Was Sick." Resuscitation of Death Panels Heart Disease and Health Reform Access Mess Victims of Health Reform Health Reform Impact, as Cited in the Medicare Chief Actuary's Report Fraud and Abuse Res Ipsa Loquitur Where Has All the Trust in Government Gone? Harvard-Driven Health Care PART THREE: Innovation, Electronic Health Records, the Internet and Social Media, and Miscellany Government "Innovation" Health Reform, the Blogosphere, and Search Engine Optimizations Seek and Find: Googling of Disease and Health Top Ten Innovators Electronic Health Records Bonanza or Boondoggle? Is a "Free" EHR for Real? Talking to Your EHR Need for Physician-Friendly and Physician-Useful Information Hospitals and Doctors Not Walking the EHR Line Twittering Down, How Tweet It Is Grace-Marie Turner and the Galen Institute The Medical Industrial Complex Too Many Rocks in Physician Knapsacks Consequences of Health Reform The Doctor is In