Health care
President Outlines Broad Healthcare Agenda
Cutting prescription drug prices, continuing the fight against COVID-19, curbing substance use disorder and ...
MARCH 7, 2022

Our Health Care Tragedy of the Commons
Originally, this message was going to highlight the accomplishments of the Americas Hernia Society.
AUGUST 25, 2020

Moneyball for Health Care: Why Hasn’t It Happened?
“Moneyball,” a book by Michael Lewis, and later made into a movie starring Brad Pitt, describes the ...
JULY 29, 2020

Value Over Volume
When the parts of our health care system are motivated by volume and revenue growth, the result of the whole system ...
MARCH 9, 2020

The Hues of Health Care
Colors define us as individuals. Colors steer our selection of our favorite dress, tie, car, sports team or ...
OCTOBER 16, 2019

Health Care Trends and Market Forces: What Surgeons Should Know
A number of market forces including rapid adoption of digital tools will call for new ways of doing business, ...
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Improving Reimbursement: Time for a New Approach?
San Diego—The complexities surrounding health care reimbursement in the United States have prompted some ...
AUGUST 30, 2019

Acute Care Surgeons in Unique Position to Drive Efficiencies
San Diego—As health care costs continue to increase unabated in the United States, administrators and ...
JANUARY 4, 2019

Forced Advertising of Health Care Providers
On March 20, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of National Institute of Family and Life Advocates ...
MAY 21, 2018

Health Care Reform and Hernia Repair
Dr. David Earle sits down with Dr. J. Scott Roth at the 2018 International Hernia Congress, in Miami, to discuss ...
MARCH 26, 2018

In Data-Driven Health Care Milieu, Context Can Be Lost
Huntington Beach, Calif.—Health care providers have access to more data than ever, but the challenge is how ...
MARCH 6, 2018

Controversial Approach to Health Care: Nix ‘Low-Value’ Surgical Interventions
If surgeons in the United Kingdom stopped doing just a handful of procedures, the national health system could save ...
JANUARY 30, 2018
