Pandemic Reserves
As I sit at my desk looking out the window at the rain covered streets, barely a person in sight and cars randomly scattered on the curb, it is hard not to think, “should we have seen this...
Pandemic Risk Management: Lessons From Ancient Egypt
In a time when fear and anxiety seem to grip an entire world, the small population of risk managers experiences a rare moment of mixed emotions. Not happiness or joy - that would be...
Protect 1 and Save 1000
Over the past couple of weeks, COVID-19 has come upon both the American public and the healthcare community like a storm. As one of the cofounders of Axene Health Partners, LLC...
The US Healthcare Reserve and COVID-19
Much is being said in the news this week about the impact of COVID-19 and the potential surge in healthcare demand and the damaging impact this could have on our great US health...
A Hard Pill to Swallow: Appreciating the Mathematical Dynamics of the Affordable Care Act
The pivotal moment[2] in the 1999 science fiction action film The Matrix involves the central character having to choose between irrevocable binary options. He can elect to swallow...
2020 Health and Wellness Report: An Effective Tool to Reduce Health Costs
For many years wellness has been viewed from somewhat of a skeptical perspective. Intuitively, the value of health and wellness programs seems so obvious but for some reason the...
Navigating COVID-19: Lessons Learned from Board Games
There is a class of board games called “cooperative”, or “co-op” for short. In a co-op game, all players work together toward a common goal. All players win together or all lose together...
Economics and Healthcare
When making important business decisions it is critical to evaluate them in economic terms, oftentimes boiled down to supply and demand. According to www.investopia.com[1], demand...
Minimum Savings Rates in Shared Savings Arrangements
It is a hot afternoon in late summer. Representatives from the managed care team at GreatCare Health Systems and the provider contracting department at Acme Health Insurance...
Coronavirus: A Case for Care Management
For the better part of the last few years, terms in the healthcare space like “Medicare for All”, “preexisting conditions”, and “if you like your doctor you can keep them” have been...