Healthcare Affordability Index: 2024
Reducing Healthcare costs continues to be a national topic of concern. Medicare’s expansion of value-based care initiatives will likely help improve healthcare affordability...
Measuring Health Care Innovator Value
The US healthcare system is known for its high costs compared to other developed countries. Several factors contribute to this, including administrative expenses, pharmaceutical prices, and the...
Thoughts on Kaiser Acquiring Geisinger
A former colleague came across an article I wrote last year, 'My Recent Experience with Kaiser Health System' – Axene Health Partners, LLC. After reading the article, she reached out to ask my thoughts...
COVID Christmas Gifts
As we sit here in December 2021 COVID is still active and cases appear to be climbing in certain pockets of the United States. In early 2020, when the pandemic began, few of us ever thought that we would be dealing with...
Axene Health Partners and Kaufman Strategic Advisors Release Payor Intelligence and Insights Cloud Application
Introducing Payor Intelligence and Insights (Pi2) – A strategic data tool developed jointly by Axene Health Partners and [...]
An Actuary’s Role in Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions
While health insurers and health plans have historically assumed most of the risk associated with managing the healthcare dollar, recent trends towards capitation and bundled payments show providers having an increased appetite...
A Return-to-Work Framework In a COVID World
Much of the media coverage surrounding the COVID-induced economic situation typically pertains to the historic unemployment numbers, number of business closures, and the potential need for additional...
The Calm Before (After) the Storm
Sitting here in early June it is hard to know what the future holds. We are about 3 months since the COVID-19 pandemic officially hit the US, we just finished 8-10 weeks of quarantine and...
Pandemic Lessons: Healthcare Versus Health Insurance
There’s been debate in political and healthcare circles about the President’s decision to not open a Special Enrollment Period for ACA markets in the midst of the 2020 global coronavirus...
Healthcare Contingency Reserves: Expanding Beyond Financial Resources to include Physical Resources
In the U.S. insurance industry, health insurers are known to hold onto large amounts of cash reserve as a surplus. Regulators often scrutinize these reserves, demanding to know why the...