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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 you hear the term the more you may wonder what it means and why it [...]
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 are tools which help mathematicians better understand complex functions and formulas. There is a nearly [...]
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 questions we encounter in healthcare. Too often the decision making process ignores the obvious. No matter [...]
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 even have to make a payment at all. This is done because you know that [...]
Defining a Bundled Payment Rate for Bone Marrow Transplants
Summary Insurers and providers are increasingly pushing for bundled payments and other forms of value-based reimbursement in their contracts with health systems. The ideal candidate for a bundled payment can be described as [...]
The Cost of Consolidation
Consolidation is aggressively moving through much of the US economy. Everything from coffee shops to airlines are consolidating and the effect on the consumer is varied. When it comes to healthcare the landscape [...]