New Year’s Eve. Looking back or looking ahead? Sometimes waxing poetic is the best way to stark realism. Consider Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down as far as I could To where […]
Tag: interventional
New Years Day, 2018. Are you prepared to be unreasonable this year? Or would you rather continue to bet on the healthcare status quo, that is, on a hospital-centric system? Or, is being “unreasonable” actually more reasonable? George Bernard Shaw stated that “the reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in […]
Blue Cross Blue Shield recently released a study based on the analysis of claims made by 43 million of their commercially insured patients. The study is additional evidence supporting the point that I’ve been arguing for the past year: That there is a rapid shift of surgical and interventional procedures from the hospital setting to the ASC setting.