Healthcare in a Minute

By George W. Chapman Elections are just around the corner and political ads, national and local, are rife with claims that their candidate is

By George W. Chapman What tends to get lost in all the headline-grabbing news related to the pandemic (PPE shortages, morbidity, testing, lingering long

By George W. Chapman No one could have predicted that a pandemic would be the catalyst or “black swan” event for telehealth. Up until

By George W. Chapman In late April, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued radical changes to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The

By George W. Chapman Various computer models have attempted to predict U.S. deaths from the coronavirus pandemic. The earliest estimates were upwards of one

By George W. Chapman New York state has issued a directive prohibiting any insurer, including Medicaid, from charging a member for any out-of-pocket costs

By George W. Chapman The American College of Physicians — with about 160,000 members — joins the ranks of physician organizations to endorse some

By George W. Chapman The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a study concluding hospital mergers and acquisitions have had little positive impact

By George W. Chapman Our average life expectancy increased almost nine years from 70 years in 1959 to 78.9 years in 2010. Then it

By George W. Chapman Before we overhaul our expensive healthcare system, we have to start with drug prices. So, Congress needs to get this