Persuasion or Compulsion as Drivers for Value Over Volume
Following the recent “Healthcare Musings” weekly letter where I described my experience participating in “healthcare war games” a very faithful “Interested Reader” wrote to me: An uncharacteristically downbeat letter, Gene, but interesting and challenging. I sent you...
“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...
Anticipating the Future
I have been thinking a lot about the future lately. Years ago I concocted a quote that works for me by leaving out a few unnecessary words from a passage in The Age of Unreason by the British business guru and futurist, Charles Handy. The future we predict today is...
What You Earn and How Long You Live
I was recently surprised when I received the free publication online from JAMA of the “The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014” by Chetty, et. al. An added bonus to the JAMA paper was the discovery that the New York Times...
Money and Health; Relationships We Must Understand and Fix
Doctors and hospitals worry a lot about what they get paid. It surprised me several years ago to discover that a majority of the doctors and managers in our organization did not have an in depth understanding of the mechanisms and issues that really determined how we...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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