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...
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...
Sustainable Universal Coverage
Last month CMS announced the results of the efforts of the Pioneer and MSSP (Medicare Shared Savings Program) ACOs for 2014. The headline made for compelling reading: Medicare ACOs Provide Improved Care While Slowing Cost Growth in 2014. This suggests that sustainable...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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