Healthcare 2013 – the Nightmare that We Allowed to Happen

April 25, 2013 in Broken Healthcare System, For Doctors

Written by David Wong, MD As a Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician of 13 years, I have had the privilege of sharing some of the greatest moments of my patients’ [...]

Can a Free Market Save Healthcare?

April 19, 2013 in Uncategorized

Written by John Mann During the weeks and months surrounding the passing of Healthcare Reform, one of the constants from the administration was that the current mess was a direct [...]

Patient 2.0: The Empowered Engaged Patient

April 12, 2013 in For Doctors, Uncategorized

Written by David Wong, MD When modern medicine began a century ago, it was a true fee-for-service. That said, the fee may have come in the form of a chicken [...]

Dr. Wong and Dr. Hampel are guests on 700 AM talk radio show: Street Talk Advisers – Topic: Affordable Care Act

April 10, 2013 in For Doctors, SnapHealth News & Press, The Affordable Care Act

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SnapHealth Write Up in Reason.com Article

March 19, 2013 in For Doctors, SnapHealth News & Press

http://reason.com/archives/2013/03/13/the-obamacare-revolt-physician-fight-bac?goback=%2Egde_1170587_member_222481804    

Bringing Healthcare Out of the Shadows

March 19, 2013 in For Doctors

It’s not very frequent that we use services whose costs we know nothing about – yet every time you go to a standard fee-for-service doctor and hand over your insurance [...]

Most States get an “F” for Healthcare Price Transparency

March 18, 2013 in Broken Healthcare System

California got a “D” but 29 states get an “F” for the lack of healthcare transparency – and there’s so much variation — almost 10 times!  A CT scan can [...]

The Inefficiency of Getting Paid

March 14, 2013 in For Doctors

Shop for health care and save, take control of your own costs

December 1, 2012 in Uncategorized

The condition of the way you pay for health care and the way doctors are paid for health care is a driving force in the spiraling cost of care. So [...]

More doctors are dropping accepting insurance altogether – not worth the hassles and hoops

October 3, 2012 in Uncategorized

With insurance creating more hassles to reimbursement and constantly decreasing reimbursement – more and more doctors are turning to accepting old-fashioned cash payments.   http://ow.ly/e9n6c