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Cash Talks in Primary Care When a team of medical “mystery shoppers” tried to get primary care office visits as new patients, they discovered that they needed private insurance coverage or had to be willing to pay at least $75 in cash upfront — or the majority of providers wouldn’t see them.

The Changing Roles of P&T Committees: A Look Back at the Last Decade and a Look Forward to 2020 Originally published at Pharmacy & Therapeutics – November 2014 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/medimedia/pt_201411/src/forms/PT_November_2014_iframe_live.html #/38

The Reason Silicon Valley Hasn't Built a Good Health App Greg Judd weighs in on the reason silicon valley hasn't built a good health app. Homogenous teams of innovators make products for people just like them. And that's a problem. Many great innovators build what they know, for who they know. Aaron Sorkin caricatured this concept with his treatment of th…

Choosing a Health Plan Is Hard, Even for a Health Economist, insurance markets, health care,... s a health economist, I have very little confidence that a market with this degree of opacity of prices and quality can serve consumers well.... Insurance markets do not need to be this opaque. We have the technology to track health care use electronically and to create online tools that could tell…