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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
So How Would You Fix Health Care Grandpa?
My grandkids periodically ask me about my work. They understand that I am a heath care consultant and have worked in the health care world for my entire career. They have overheard many...
Resource Based Pricing
Introduction Some of the confusion about the US health care system is directly tied to prices. How [...]
The Forgotten and Undervalued Resource: Care Management
In many of our recent client situations we encounter a surprising lack of awareness and concern about the [...]