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Margalit Gur-Arie | HIT Consultant Contributor

Margalit Gur-Arie is a founder of BizMed, a company devoted to supporting practicing physicians through software and services that simplify the business of medicine. Margalit has served in executive and consulting roles at various Health IT companies and her mission is to support and strengthen independent private practice, particularly in rural and underserved areas.

Margalit Gur-Arie

Margalit Gur-Arie is a founder of BizMed, a company devoted to supporting practicing physicians through software and services that simplify the business of medicine. Margalit has served in executive and consulting roles at various Health IT companies and her mission is to support and strengthen independent private practice, particularly in rural and underserved areas.

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Why Medicare For All Is Not Going to Happen In America

by Margalit Gur-Arie 05/10/2019 Leave a Comment

Why Medicare For All Is Not Going to Happen In America

I am going to make a prediction here. No matter who we elect in 2020, Bernie or Trump or anything in between, Medicare For All is not going to happen in America. One can run an electrifying campaign on the promise of Medicare For All, or indignantly against it, but this is pure theater on both sides. I don’t know if God can make a rock so big and heavy that even He can’t lift it, but I do know that government can make corporations so big and powerful that even government itself can’t break
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A Scientific Guide to Repeal & Replace Obamacare

by Margalit Gur-Arie 03/01/2017 Leave a Comment

10 Things We Should NOT Blame Obamacare For

“So how about it, Nash? You scared?” “Terrified... mortified... petrified... stupefied... by you.”  (--A Beautiful Mind)Fear is now a sign that you are an intelligent, educated, open-minded and caring person. Being scared is incontestable proof that you have a beautiful heart. When it comes to your health, there is palpable terror that soon, very soon, the bad guys will take away Obamacare, which was the source of health care and life itself for many. And make no mistake the enemy is coming for
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Call to Action: Organizing for Patient Care

by Margalit Gur-Arie 11/28/2016 Leave a Comment

Increasing Patient Face Time by Decreasing Physician Screen Time

On November 8th America elected a President who ran on a promise to restore government of the people, by the people, for the people (among other things). However, we cannot expect such government to be given to us on a silver platter, no matter who resides in the White House. We must build it ourselves, by definition. Government of, by, and for the people requires the people to stand up and do more than just vote every four years, do more than author clever blogs, do more than compose brilliant
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MACRA, Brexit and the McDonaldization of Healthcare

by Margalit Gur-Arie 07/19/2016 Leave a Comment

Physician Burnout_10 Mandatory Issues for Physicians to Watch in 2015_Comprehensive Primary Care Plus Model

MACRA seems to be the talk of the town right now. MACRA and MIPS and APM and the dozens of sub-acronyms flying around like so many arrows in this Game of Thrones, Battle of the Bastards. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) was signed into law over a year ago. That’s right, MACRA is the “law of the land” now, and it became law of the land with overwhelming bipartisan support in Congress and with much lobbying and cheerleading from medical associations. MACRA is not a
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At The Heart & Soul of MACRA Is Waste

by Margalit Gur-Arie 05/23/2016 4 Comments

Physician Burnout_10 Mandatory Issues for Physicians to Watch in 2015_Comprehensive Primary Care Plus Model

Ms. Jeannie is a 65 years old woman, slightly overweight with mild hypertension that is perfectly controlled. Ms. Jeannie is the office manager at Dr. Abrams, the pediatrician down the hall, who’s been taking care of your kids since you moved here. Ms. Jeannie called earlier because her allergies are killing her today and she’s out of refills for her blood pressure meds anyway. After an uneventful 15 minutes, and a brief chat in the hallway, Ms. Jeannie pays her $15 copay and heads back to work.
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Why Healthcare Must Never Be Allowed To Become A System

by Margalit Gur-Arie 05/12/2016 Leave a Comment

The Merriam-Webster dictionary has many definitions for the term system, but the most straightforward, and arguably the most applicable to our health care conversation is “a regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified whole”. The common wisdom is that our health care system is broken and hence our government is vigorously attempting to fix it for us through legislation, reformation and transformation. We usually work ourselves into a frenzy arguing how the government
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Comprehensive Primary Care Plus Model: Why Risk Is the New Compassion

by Margalit Gur-Arie 05/05/2016 Leave a Comment

Physician Burnout_10 Mandatory Issues for Physicians to Watch in 2015_Comprehensive Primary Care Plus Model

 The most powerful persuasion tool in enlightened human society is language. The most powerful manipulation tool in any human society is language. Whereas in ancient times the pen was considered mightier than the sword, now the keyboard can be said to be mightier than any weapon of mass destruction, and nobody is mightier than the government of these United States. When our government wanted to strip citizens of privacy, it passed the Patriot act, because no one could oppose patriotism after
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Why We Cannot Dilute the Doctor in this New Era of Digital Health

by Margalit Gur-Arie 04/12/2016 Leave a Comment

Can A Patient Experience Survey Truly Measure the Doctor-Patient Relationship

 Simply put, we cannot dilute the doctor over and over again, until there is no visible trace of human physicians in our digital health brew of healthcare. For decades and decades we have been counting the number of doctors in America. For decades and decades we have been coming up short compared to other developed nations, and some less developed ones as well. A poorly educated person may be tempted to suggest that we should “make” more doctors. After all, there is hardly a shortage of young
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What Is The Financial Impact of Value Based Healthcare for Physicians?

by Margalit Gur-Arie 02/15/2016 Leave a Comment

Value-Based Health Care is Antithetic to Patient-Centered Care_ Value-based Care in Oncology

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is working hard to transition physicians’ payments from volume to value of services. The current Acting Administrator at CMS is a former top executive at United Healthcare, a commercial health insurance corporation. The previous Administrator at CMS is currently the president and CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), which is the dominant health insurance lobbying group. It may therefore behoove us to rephrase the opening sentence:
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Meaningful Use Is Dead, Long Live Something Better!

by Margalit Gur-Arie 01/14/2016 4 Comments

Meaningful Use Is Dead, Long Live Something Better!

At the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Mr. Andrew Slavitt, acting administrator at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS),announced on January 11th that “The meaningful use program as it has existed will now effectively be over, and replaced with something better”, and later clarified on Twitter that:  https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/686718314517663744 Meaningful Use is dead. Just like that. No apologies. No nothing. As someone who’s been lamenting
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