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How Healthcare Central Planning Distorts Prices

Published on Claim Denied • Apr 28

March 2026

Performance Statistics for Doctors

How New Low Back Pain Metrics Continue Turning Doctors into Data Clerks Instead of Healers

Published on Claim Denied • Mar 2

February 2026

The Business of Codes

Why there are so many diagnoses in the chart

Published on Claim Denied • Feb 20

The Sucker's Paradox

Honesty is not a winning strategy

Published on Claim Denied • Feb 15

A Medicaid State Waiver Idea to Provide Better Primary Care Without Spending More

Looking for possible state partners for an eventual Section 1115 waiver

Published on Tom Church • Feb 15

Middling Middlemen

More 340B Ranting

Feb 4 • Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA

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January 2026

The Unknowable "Good"

Why It's Impossible to Measure Physician Quality

Published on Claim Denied • Jan 31

It's The Hospitals

The Real Reason Healthcare Costs are So High

Published on Claim Denied • Jan 27

The Magician’s Choice

The illusion of autonomy in healthcare

Jan 21 • John Paul G. Kolcun, MD

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Medicine Without Answers

Embracing uncertainty in healthcare

Published on Claim Denied • Jan 12

New Year, Old Stories

Freedom in constraint

Jan 4 • John Paul G. Kolcun, MD

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December 2025

The Young Physician Trap

Trading Autonomy for Salary

Published on Claim Denied • Dec 29, 2025