Dan Pierce is a physiatrist and assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He holds clinical leadership and patient care roles within several Omaha-area hospitals, including Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha VA Medical Center, and Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, across the outpatient, acute, and post-acute levels of care.
After specialty training, he completed a fellowship in quality improvement and patient safety, and his interests are centered on health care delivery and health care policy. His research examines variability in rehabilitation care delivery, the value of subspecialty certification, transitions of care, and how function and ability belong in population health strategy. His scholarship has appeared in Neurology, and he is a contributing author on additional published work.
He represents the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine as its young physician delegate to the American Medical Association House of Delegates, serves on the state of Nebraska's Medicaid Advisory Committee, and is board vice president of the Brain Injury Association of Nebraska. He writes about rehabilitation medicine, health care quality, and the policy decisions that impact physicians and their patients. He shares updates on LinkedIn and Instagram.
“I just don’t pay them.”
I was with a group of acquaintances, and we had been engaged in a spirited conversation about the costs of medical care. While I was the only one present who worked in health care, the group itself was fairly homogenous, with individuals in similar stages of life and financial security. Access to health insurance was of no concern in this group, and neither would have been …
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