It Seems So Logical!
I was recently invited by Dr. Marc-David Munk, the Vice President, Accountable Care and Senior Medical Director for Medicare Practices at Iora Health to visit the “nest”, the home office of Iora Health. [Iora is a species of beautiful little birds found in India and...
It Will Be a Challenging Future For Nonprofit Healthcare Boards
When I joined the Harvard Community Health Plan board in1990, the Chairman was a very wise and experienced executive from Federated Department Stores, Maurice Lazarus. “Moogie” as he preferred to be called, projected a throwback image to another day when wise and...
Long-Term Care Costs
I like to believe that I’m too young to think about who will take care of me when I’m old and frail and can no longer prepare my own meals, bathe myself, or even tie my own shoes. But my father’s personal narrative has taught me to plan ahead: I now have an advance...
Choices: Understanding Risk, Loss, Persuasion and Compulsion in Healthcare
My wife had a simple mantra that she repeated each time our boys left the house to go out with their friends. She would say, “Make good choices!”. Her inference was that there was loss associated with bad choices. Never before have patients, families, doctors, other...
“Games” about Volume to Value
Recently I attended a meeting in suburban Washington that was designed as a “war games” exercise to examine strategic moves in the finance of Medicare. The introductory comments to the exercise excited me when I heard that the objective was to understand what CMS...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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