Pediatric Neurosurgery, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act
Sandi Lam, MD, MBA (left) Associate Professor Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery/Department of Neurosurgery Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine Baylor Center for Ethics and Health Policy Carrie R. Muh, MD, MS (right) Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics Duke University Medical Center Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Pediatric Neurosurgery and the Health of Children Once […]
The ACA’s Seven Year Itch: Repeal, Replace or Repair?
Guest Post from Deborah L. Benzil, MD, FACS, FAANS (left) Vice President, AANS Chair, AANS/CNS Communications and Public Relations Committee Mount Kismo Medical Group Columbia University Medical Center Mt Kisco, New York Clemens M. Schirmer, MD, PhD, FAANS, FAHA (right) Vice-Chair, AANS/CNS Communications and Public Relations Committee Geisinger Health System Wilkes Barre, PA On March […]
Thank You and Happy New Year!
As 2016 draws to a close, we’d like to take a moment to thank you. Whether you read Neurosurgery Blog, share our content or contribute awesome articles for us to post, we are extremely grateful for what you do. As we all know, health care is central to our daily lives and policymakers in Washington, […]
Cross Post – National Health Spending In 2015
From time to time on Neurosurgery Blog, you will see us cross-posting or linking to items from other publications. Today’s post originally appeared on the Health Affairs blog and it highlights a new policy brief from Health Affairs on 2015 national health expenditures. Overall, national health spending grew at a rate of 5.8 percent in […]
What Drives U.S. Healthcare Spending?
Recently the Bipartisan Policy Center released a report entitled “What Is Driving U.S. Health Care Spending? America’s Unsustainable Health Care Cost Growth.” The paper highlights the items that the group posits are responsible for healthcare spending in the United States. Three of the factors – population, utilization rates and prices – are expected to continue […]
Five Unanswered Questions About Health Reform
Now that the days awaiting the Supreme Court’s initial decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are long over, we wanted to take time to remind everyone about the many unanswered questions which remain. Will all the states now move forward to implement insurance exchanges? Will some states refuse to expand Medicaid coverage? Will most […]
AANS/CNS Spine Section’s Rapid Response to Coverage Policy
From time to time you will see us promote items on Neurosurgery Blog in order to spotlight some great things which are born out of the many members who work on behalf of organized neurosurgery. For our post today we would like to bring your attention to the following article which originally appeared in the […]
Patients Are Not a Piece of Cheesecake
Today we wanted to share an essay from Atul Gawande, MD. In this piece, published last month in the New Yorker, he posits that medicine could learn from big chains, like the Cheesecake Factory, to improve the delivery of quality, cost effective care. There are some provocative thoughts in the essay and perhaps lessons to be […]