by Robert Pearl, M.D. | Nov 15, 2021 | All Blog Posts, Leadership, Surveys
Throughout his presidential campaign and time in office, Joe Biden has made a lot of healthcare promises and outlined a wide variety of healthcare priorities for his administration. Anyone paying even the slightest attention to American politics knows Congress won’t...
by Robert Pearl, M.D. | Nov 9, 2021 | All Blog Posts, Events, Leadership, Lessons
“Change definitely will be happening. And change happening will be difficult.” That’s the message I delivered at the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) Annual Meeting in Minneapolis this week. As this year’s keynote speaker, I promised those in...
by Robert Pearl, M.D. | Nov 1, 2021 | All Blog Posts, Events, Leadership, Lessons
Before I was a professor at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business or CEO at The Permanente Medical Group (Kaiser Permanente), I was a very proud, busy and highly satisfied plastic and reconstructive surgeon. Plastic surgery has for decades stood on the...
by Robert Pearl, M.D. | Oct 11, 2021 | All Blog Posts, Surveys
It is common, when going to the doctor with a medical problem, to imagine the worst-case scenario playing out. Last month, leading up to Halloween, subscribers of my Monthly Musings on American Healthcare were asked what scares them most as patients. Here are the...
by Robert Pearl, M.D. | Sep 30, 2021 | All Blog Posts, Events, Leadership, Lessons
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have been around for more than a decade—created with the idea that integrating care providers across settings (hospitals, primary care, specialty care, etc.) and aligning their financial incentives would lead to improved clinical...
