How Can Private Equity Adapt to Healthcare Economics?
Economics students are baptized in the basics of supply and demand the moment they step into their first [...]
Healthcare Resource Planning: The Importance of Balancing Supply with Demand
A quick internet search will produce dozens of articles talking about the shortage of healthcare providers. One report [...]
Transparency: How Important Is It Anyway?
The November 15, 2019 release of a final rule on Transparency has raised the awareness of transparency. For [...]
Hospital Price Transparency: Threat or Opportunity?
On November 15, 2019 the Trump Administration, in conjunction with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, released [...]
Being Actuarial, Actuarially Sound, Or Just Plain Faking It…
Being an actuary has been a very enjoyable career for the last 16 years. I have worked [...]
The Gold Rush and the Lionfish: Optimizing the Unique Dynamics in ACA Markets
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), colloquially known as “Obamacare”, recently began its 7thopen enrollment period, the first with [...]
What Is The “Total Cost Of Care” And Why Does It Matter?
If you work in the healthcare space, you often hear the term “Total Cost of Care”. The more [...]
Transforms: a la Health Care Style
Students of mathematics are familiar with the concepts of transforms or transformations (e.g., LaPlace or Fourier transforms). Essentially these [...]
Question: Should We Do This or Not? Answer: We Need an Assessment of Value!
Sometimes the hardest business questions have the simplest of answers. This is also true for the many nagging [...]
Physician Fee Schedules: How Do They Compare and What’s Next?
When you visit your doctor, you will typically be charged a small copay, coinsurance amount, or may not [...]