Board recommends next CEO for Broward Health
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According to Brian Bandell, a reporter for the SFBJ, in a December 10 post:
The North Broward Hospital District has recommended hiring Dr. Nabil El Sanadi as the president and CEO of Broward Health and the final decision could come as soon as Wed., Dec. 17. Sanadi, a doctor at Phoenix Physicians, serves as Broward Health's Chief of Emergency Medicine.
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With a background in public health in addition to his MD credentials, Dr. El Sanadi is well versed in the benefits of population health and preventive care. As chairman of the Florida Board of Medicine, he is intimately acquainted with the challenges facing providers. With a specialization in Emergency Medicine as well as holding an MBA, he can clearly see the massive misallocation of resources currently devoted to many of the country's Emergency Departments. Chosen from a field of seven finalists, Dr. El Sanadi is uniquely qualified to lead Broward Health into the next generation of healthcare.
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Benefits of payment reform yet to be seen, research suggests
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In a December 10 Fierce Practice Management post by Debra Beaulieu-Volk, the author writes:
Despite the Affordable Care Act's creation of accountable care organizations and its push toward value-based medicine, some of the nation's highest-paid doctors still work largely under a fee-for-service model, according to an article from U.S. News & World Report.
What's more, research by the UCLA Department of Urology and the Veterans' Health Administration suggests that providers who earn the most do so not by treating more patients, but by providing more services to individuals.
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"Given the data on medical service utilization in the United States, it is likely that a substantial portion of these services is unrelated to improved outcomes," stated the research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine. "In Medicare's fee-for-service system, some physicians are collecting large fees by ordering services munificently."
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ObamaCare's Threat to Private Practice
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In an Op-Ed published December 9 in the Wall Street Journal, author Dr. Scott Gottlieb asserts:
The payment system is forcing doctors to sell out to hospitals. The trend, and the law, will be unstoppable without reform.
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According to the author, the ACA is accelerating a trend of fewer and fewer independent doctors (from 62% in 2008 to 35% in 2014, according to one study). The resulting lack of competition will soon make it much harder to implement a market-based alternative to ObamaCare. The emergence of these medical monopolies will make more regulation the most obvious solution to the resulting cost and quality problems.
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