Bringing your car to a mechanic is a lot like going to the doctor. Auto mechanics and doctors both work within a predominantly fee-for-service system where information asymmetry prevails. Information […]

State budgets have been pushed to extremes driven in part by ballooning Medicaid costs and ballooning Medicaid rolls. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation:  “Early estimates indicate that states are […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and magnified some nonsensical elements that drive health care delivery in the U.S. One of the most glaring is the method by which primary care […]

Before COVID-19, U.S. health care was being called out for unfair billing practices. Surprise bills, confusing and excessive hospital chargemaster rates, balance billing and overreliance on fee-for-service had become familiar […]

Business management guru Peter Drucker is credited with saying that “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” The message is that an organization will not adopt any change or effectively pursue any […]

One surprising development as health care shifts toward risk-based payment is how many health systems intend to become insurers. According to one study, half of health systems have applied or […]

There is an interesting concept called per capita premium subsidy that was included in the MedPAC June 2016 report to Congress and the Republican white paper related to reforming healthcare.  […]

When was the last time you saw a government program, any government program, implemented ahead of schedule? Or on time, for that matter? We’ve grown accustomed to setbacks and delays […]