Leadership in any industry, especially in health care, demands a delicate balance of trust, ethical judgment, and professionalism. However, when leaders view collaboration through a lens of suspicion, assuming that employees are conspiring against them…
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Health care executive Jeffry A. Peters discusses his article “Ending physicians’ addiction to unhappiness,” focusing on the systemic factors fueling wide…
Amidst the recent news about the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, the issue of prior authorization has come to the forefront again. Insurance companies use prior authorization as an easy tool to control the costs and incorporate it as a genuine step of …
Unless you’ve lived it, you can’t fully understand. We’ve all cared for patients with cancer. We’ve delivered hard news, sat beside bedsides, explained scan results, and offered hope when we could. We’ve been the calm in t…
How or when did physicians move from being teachers and healers who comfort and ease fear and pain to fear-inducing informational social media establishments? I am a huge fan of sharing information and using tools and technology to do so with a larger …
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Child psychiatrist Ellen K. Feldman discusses her article “How social media is shaping teen mental health and what we can do about it,” highlighting the growin…
Before leaving office, the Biden administration increased the annual cap for Medicaid-reimbursed contingency management (an evidence-based psychosocial intervention) as part of an individual’s addiction treatment. This move demonstrates what I ha…
Sometimes doing what we do is so hard. We get intimately involved in our patients’ lives, and instead of maintaining a clinical distance, you get sucked into the drama that has unfolded in their lives—the very events that bring them to the ED on …
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Medical student Christopher Nmai discusses his article, “Leaving medicine is not a failure: It might be the change you always needed.” Christopher shares his d…
Physicians, practices, and other health care providers seem to face a continual decline in reimbursements. According to an AMA analysis, inflation-adjusted Medicare reimbursement rates for physicians dropped 22 percent from 2001 to 2021, and insurers o…
