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Jan 12, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | Toni Brayer |Jean Paul Brutus |David Moskowitz |George Mathew
I’ve taken a little writing break as I turned off news to preserve my mental health after the election. As 2024 limps to a close, I look forward to a fresh start in 2025 with a few of my own crystal ball predictions of what’s to come in American health care. Accessing primary care will continue to be a challenge, not just in rural communities but in big cities too.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | David Moskowitz |Jean Paul Brutus |Leslie Gregory |Paul Pender
Having spent two years in Oxford as a Marshall Scholar in the mid-1970s, I came back to medical school believing in a national health service—i.e., Medicare for all. But I learned firsthand that a monopoly can provide access without ensuring quality. When quality isn’t the priority, there’s no hope for lowering costs or alleviating suffering. Medicare is already the single payer for dialysis and has failed patients miserably.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Charles Dinerstein |Julie Craig |Jean Paul Brutus |George Mathew
When demand exceeds supply, a resource is limited. Allocating those resources “involves a tension between efficiency and equity.” The market has several ways to allot those limited resources, beginning with cost. For example, frequent flyer miles, a form of resource allocation, may not seem controversial, except to those getting on last, where there is no room for their carry-on. Health care is a limited resource for many reasons, and equity raises more significant ethical concerns.
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May 17, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Nathaniel Arana |Jean Paul Brutus |Carmen Kavali |Leslie Gregory
Since January 1, 2023, the Transparency in Coverage Rule required health insurance providers and health insurers to provide price information to participants in a publicly accessible place. This means consumers should, in theory, be able to go to any payer’s website and see what different doctors, hospitals, and health systems are charging for the same services.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
kevinmd.com | Irene Tanzman |Steven Siegel |Jean Paul Brutus |George Mathew
In September 2023, President Biden announced health care provider training, allocating over $8 million through 18 awards to train primary care medical students, physician assistant students, and medical residents in providing culturally and linguistically appropriate care for individuals with limited English proficiency, as well as those with physical or intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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Jun 30, 2023 | 
kevinmd.com | Afua Aning |Steven Zhang |Jean Paul Brutus |Harvey Castro
ChatGPT and Epic SystemsThis year’s buzzword in academic and now business technology is ChatGPT. Epic Systems, Microsoft, and OpenAI (the owners of ChatGPT) have announced the release of the next evolution in artificial intelligence (AI) called GPT-4. This new system integrates AI with electronic health records with the hopes of advancing medical care and associated services. In-basket messaging is the first section of electronic health records that will be significantly changed.
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Jun 18, 2023 | 
kevinmd.com | Christian John Lillis |Michael Fine |Eva Feder Kittay |Jean Paul Brutus
I’ve spoken at many medical conferences since co-founding the Peggy Lillis Foundation for C. diff Education & Advocacy following my mother’s death from a C. difficile infection in 2010. Unfortunately, I am often the only patient advocate. The pressure of representing patients in a group of hundreds of clinicians, scientists, and administrators can be intimidating. But for the most part, I have always felt welcome and valued.
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Jun 16, 2023 | 
kevinmd.com | Donna Grande |Jean Paul Brutus |Rob Palmer |Isaac Freedman
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes!Join us in this insightful podcast episode as we discuss the challenges and importance of Medicaid access in the United States. Our guests include Fatima Al-Shimari, an epidemiologist, and medical students Miriam Al-Saedy and Salsabeal Al-Saedy. We delve into the limited availability of Medicaid providers and its impact on health care access for low-income individuals.
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May 13, 2023 | 
kevinmd.com | Nina Cloven |George Mathew |Michael Fine |Jean Paul Brutus
Illinois HB 4654 is a bill requiring physicians to undergo cultural competency training focusing on caring for patients who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and two-spirit LGBTQ2S+, or questioning LGBTQ+. This training is critical for ensuring that all patients receive the best possible care, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity in the state of Illinois.
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Mar 4, 2023 | 
kevinmd.com | Jean Paul Brutus |Peter Spence |Nina Cloven |George Mathew
The growing role of private health care in Canada is a hot topic at the moment. Provincial governments are outsourcing elective surgeries to the private sector and are considering or debating the option. Many Canadians are in favor because they recognize that the public health care system is failing. Many are against it because they fear it will increase inequalities in access to care for the most vulnerable populations, particularly in the context of workforce shortages.
