Banning: Game Changing Payment Initiative
Tom Banning | Jun 25, 2020 | Texas
Banning: Direct Contracting
Tom Banning | Jun 5, 2020 | Texas
Banning: Primary care flatlines as health costs balloon
Tom Banning | May 19, 2020 | Texas
Banning: Jobs report on health care
Tom Banning | May 12, 2020 | Texas
Banning: How health insurers can be heroes
Tom Banning | May 11, 2020 | Texas
There are few things that make my blood boil like the hypocrisy we continue to see from the health insurance industry. It has been well documented that medical services, elective procedures, emergency room use and hospitalizations have dramatically declined, yet health insurers continue to collect overpriced premiums from employers and
A Marshall Plan for primary care, public health
Chris Crow MD, Tom Banning | May 8, 2020 | Federal, Texas
Following the devastation of World War II, the United States enacted the Marshall Plan to rebuild a heavily damaged Europe. Our war against this novel coronavirus is far from over, but it is already wreaking havoc on the nation’s primary care workforce. Our frontline health care providers are putting themselves
Banning: On reopening the Texas economy
Tom Banning | May 1, 2020 | Texas
Our grand social experiment of opening Texas’ economy is set to begin today. No one can say with any authority or certainty whether or not Gov. Abbott’s plan will work or not – here’s to hoping for the best. Noam Levey with the LA Times does a fantastic job of
Banning: On getting physicians back to work
Tom Banning | Apr 24, 2020 | Texas
Some good news to report in Texas: it only took 40 days, but it looks like the state is finally getting serious about distributing PPE to community physicians, nursing homes and FQHCs. Despite the RACs not yet getting the word, we’re being told that the state feels the hospitals
Banning: COVID, primary care and historical context
Tom Banning | Apr 23, 2020 | Federal
Unless you’re a true health policy nerd, you’ve probably never heard of a book written by renowned Princeton sociology professor Paul Starr entitled The Social Transformation of American Medicine. The book is the definitive history of the American health care system and examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals,