Mark Smith

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1 In 10 Doctor Practices Flee Medicare To Concierge Medicine

Bruce Japsen | Forbes | January 30, 2013

As Medicare whacks away at what doctors are paid and health insurers move away from paying fees for service to bundled payments, more physicians who own their own practices will start direct pay or concierge medicine in the next one to three years. Read More »

Kludgeocracy In America

Steven M. Teles | National Affairs | October 1, 2013

In recent decades, American politics has been dominated, at least rhetorically, by a battle over the size of government. But that is not what the next few decades of our politics will be about. With the frontiers of the state roughly fixed, the issues that will define our major debates will concern the complexity of government, rather than its sheer scope...

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Roambi Named 2013 Ventana Research Technology Innovation Award Winner

Press Release | Roambi, Ventana Research | August 15, 2013

Leading Research Firm Selects Roambi as a Visionary and Transformative Technology Pioneer in Business Intelligence Read More »

What Hospitals Waste

Marshall Allen | Pro Publica | March 9, 2017

Just outside Portland, Maine, there’s a 15,000-square-foot warehouse that’s packed with reasons the U.S. health care system costs so much: Shelves climb floor to ceiling, stacked with tubs overflowing with unopened packages of syringes, diabetes supplies and shiny surgical instruments that run hundreds of dollars apiece. There are boxes of IV fluids and bags of ostomy supplies and kits with everything you’d need to perform an obstetrics surgery...

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