How to Save the Individual ACA Market for $14 Billion
“You’ve got to keep ‘em separated." – The Offspring, Come Out and Play The Individual Insurance Market and [...]
A New Perspective: User-Centric Health Benefit Design
Introduction As health costs spiral out of control, health plans and plan sponsors are starting to experiment [...]
Healthcare Lessons Learned from Fantasy Football
The NFL season is just around the corner and football fans are eager to watch games and [...]
The Chronic Disease Burden
Introduction Today most health care discussions focus on health care reform with an emphasis on financing and [...]
The Critical Role of the Patient-Physician Relationship
“The importance of an intimate relationship between patient and physician can never be overstated, because in most cases [...]
The Role and Application of Health Care Best Practices
This article provides a broad assessment of the role of Best Practices involving four key elements of [...]
Optimizing Healthcare Financing in Free Market Economies
Most observers would agree that the United States economy is largely composed of free market transactions. This generally [...]
The Health Insurance Premium Dollar: Who Gets What?
Introduction In today’s health care arguments about lowering costs, it is sometimes forgotten that insurance premiums are set [...]
US Pharmaceutical Pricing: An Overview
Pharmaceutical pricing is a topic rife with contradictions: Pills that cost pennies to produce may cost thousands [...]
Paying Healthcare Providers: The Impact of Provider Reimbursement on Overall Cost of Care and Treatment Decisions
Introduction How providers are paid is one of the often-discussed and often-reformed aspects of the American healthcare [...]