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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 classroom. The free market involves buyers and sellers who participate in a bilateral tug-of-war over [...]
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 presents 15 key concerns about physician shortages[1] ranging from too few primary care providers to [...]
Transparency: How Important Is It Anyway?
The November 15, 2019 release of a final rule on Transparency has raised the awareness of transparency. For years this has been a discussion topic in Board Rooms, marketing departments, provider relations departments, [...]
Hospital Price Transparency: Threat or Opportunity?
On November 15, 2019 the Trump Administration, in conjunction with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, released a final rule which would require the public disclosure of hospital charges. The proposed rule, [...]
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 on many different projects from the smallest review of data to multi-billion-dollar litigations. I have [...]
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 premiums based on claims experience after the 2018 Cost Sharing Reduction (CSR) payments were defunded. [...]