A Provider’s Primer for Shared Savings Arrangements
Shared savings arrangements have increased in popularity as healthcare shifts towards value-based care. In its most basic form, [...]
Value-Based Care’s Impact on Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions
Provider reimbursement models are evolving as the healthcare system attempts to combat rapidly rising healthcare costs. A [...]
COVID Christmas Gifts
As we sit here in December 2021 COVID is still active and cases appear to be climbing in [...]
Impressions of the ACA: The 1st Year of the 2nd Decade
“A subsidy works if it gets someone to buy something they otherwise wouldn’t buy. Any additional subsidy [...]
Targeting Clarity Through Transparency
Over the years much has been said about the issue of increasing costs of healthcare, its causes, [...]
Geographic Utilization Disparities and Financial Impacts
It seems natural to assume that the scientific underpinning of medicine implies a formulaic treatment for any given [...]
Some Thoughts on Self-Funded Health Insurance in a (Post) Covid World
Today we are nearing the fourth quarter of 2021 and the world has been augmented in major ways [...]
Land of the Free
“If you think health care is expensive now—just wait until it’s free.” —P.J. O’Rourke Health care is [...]
An Actuarial Guide to Medicare Direct Contracting
On April 1, 2021, the Global and Professional Direct Contracting (GPDC) Model began its first performance year. Effective [...]
Misalignment Between Premiums and Coverage Generosity Imposes Heavy Cost Burdens on Consumers in Health Insurance Exchanges
Summary One of the most underappreciated cornerstones of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is that premium variation [...]