Editor’s Note: This is the seventh and last post in a Health Affairs Blog series on Medicare physician compensation and the Sustainable Growth Rate mechanism. Paul Ginsburg, Robert Berenson, Mina Matin, Jay Crosson, Frank Opelka, and Eugene Rich have contributed earlier posts.
One of the advantages of coming last in a series of blog postings is that I can comment […]

This post is based on testimony at a hearing of the House Ways & Means Subcommittee on Health, March 6, 2007.
The primary problem with the SGR [sustainable growth rate] is that while it controls total spending by physicians, it does not affect the volume and intensity of spending by individual physicians. In fact, there […]

Michael Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg are experts in strategy and innovation, but, for better or for worse, they are relative newcomers to the health care arena. As a result, the language they use in Redefining Health Care often differs from the terms used by health policy analysts, even when their diagnoses and prescriptions are […]