Presented by Joel V. Brill, MD
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The speaker for the teleconference, Joel V. Brill, MD, is Chief Medical Officer of Predictive Health, LLC in Phoenix. His areas of focus include coding and reimbursement methodologies, insurance contracting strategies, predictive modeling, disease management and pharmaceutical analysis. Dr. Brill is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, and has practiced for two decades in California and Arizona. He is a member of the Clinical Practice and Economics Committee for the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) and represents the AGA at the CPT Editorial Panel, the RBRVS Update Committee (RUC) and the Practice Expense Review Committee (PERC). Dr. Brill is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Thank you very much and good day. Thank you for wherever you are dialing in throughout the United States and I appreciate that you are spending the next hour with us, discussing the future of gastroenterology. I am going to assume that all you already have your information in front of you so let us get started without further delay.
What we are facing right now in the field of medicine is the transition of medicine. Physicians are transitioning and practices are transitioning from being all things to all patients to a team of healthcare professionals which are delivering integrated care around small areas of medicine. In fact yesterday the American Academy of Family Practice had a press release which looked at something very, very similar for the family practice side of medicine. Employers Are Shifting Healthcare Costs To Workers What are we facing from a healthcare purchasing perspective? If you go to next slide, you can see a chart, which shows you health insurance premiums, workers- earnings and inflation now over the past almost two decades- time. The bottom lines shows that those worker earnings and overall inflation have remained relatively flat and that has been the effect of Allen Greenspan. However at the same time, health insurance premiums have gone one up, they took a dip in the mid 90s and they have continued to go up. Then as this health insurance premiums continue to go up at a rate of [...]
