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...
The Importance of IBNR in Self-Funded and Traditional Health Plans
Understanding and accurately predicting future liabilities is crucial to the sustainability and success of insurance companies and self-insured employer-sponsored health plans...
How Many Doctors Does It Take to Make a Healthcare System?
For a healthcare system to run efficiently there is a balance that needs to be found where there is adequate staffing to accommodate the needs of a population. Too much staffing and supply...
Some Thoughts on Self-Funded Health Insurance in a (Post) Covid World
Today we are nearing the fourth quarter of 2021 and the world has been augmented in major ways since the pandemic began nearly 18 months ago. Not long-ago masks were hardly seen outside of the hospital...
What Good Will Come Out Of COVID-19?
Nine months ago, we gathered in our conference room to talk about COVID-19 and what it may look like in the coming months. When you put a bunch of data geeks with healthcare expertise in a room the opinions were diverse...
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...
The Cost of COVID-19
Since the first hint of a pandemic Axene Health Partners has been monitoring COVID-19 and its impact on the nation, especially on the healthcare system. COVID-19 data and its trends...
Pandemic Reserves
As I sit at my desk looking out the window at the rain covered streets, barely a person in sight and cars randomly scattered on the curb, it is hard not to think, “should we have seen this...
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...
The Real Cost of Vaccinations
The practice of vaccinating people is much older than most understand. Today it is a hot topic in news and is being talked about regularly as it affects school registration, travel...