MedPage Today October 4, 2018
– Andrew Perry, MD, interviews Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH
The way we pay for medical care is changing. In this first episode of a two-part podcast series, Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH, explains the history of the transition towards a quality-based system. See her article in the New England Journal of Medicine here.
A transcript of the podcast follows:
Andrew Perry, MD: …Today, I’m going to go in a bit of a different direction. In this point in my training, most of my time and energy is spent in learning and mastering medicine and the management of patients. Overriding all of this is healthcare policy, how the hospital gets paid, and reimbursement models. This is something that’s in the...