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Aggregators, Innovators, and the Resurgence of National Physician Practices
Article by John D. Birkmeyer
A perspective on the growth of NPPs and the ideological divide between for-profit and nonprofit providers.
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Competition in Health Care
The health care industry is changing rapidly, and not just the market for medical insurance. How does competition among providers affect the health care market as organizations vie for the best quality and the lowest health care costs?
New Marketplace
Defining the Goals of Health Care Price Transparency: Not Just Shopping Around
Article by Ateev Mehrotra, David Schleifer, Amy Shefrin & Andrea M. Ducas
What policymakers, providers, and payers need to do to make price transparency successful.
New Marketplace
Addressing Generic-Drug Market Failures — The Case for Establishing a Nonprofit Manufacturer
Article by Dan Liljenquist, Ge Bai & Gerard F. Anderson
A consortium of hospitals and health plans is establishing a nonprofit generic-drug manufacturer to produce a steady supply of affordable essential drugs and stimulate competition in generic-drug markets.
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Effective Consolidation: A Model for Reform Through Payer-Provider Integration
Article by William H. Shrank, Diane Holder & Steven D. Shapiro
UPMC’s payer-provider partnership integrates real-time data to support improved clinical decision-making and optimizes clinical and financial performance.
New Marketplace
Amazon and CVS: Short-Lived Unicorns in Health Care, or Healers of the “Tapeworm”?
Interview by Robert Galvin & Leemore Dafny
Will Amazon–Berkshire Hathaway–JP Morgan and CVS-Aetna change the health care game? To one health care employer purchaser, these announcements feel a lot like Groundhog Day.
New Marketplace
We Can’t Spend All Our Money on Health Care
Interview by Fiona Scott Morton & Thomas H. Lee
We have to think about how much we want to spend on health according to how much it’s worth to us at the margin.
Care Redesign
Patient Satisfaction Surveys
Article by NEJM Catalyst
Although, not everyone agrees on exactly what or how to measure it, patient satisfaction has become an integral part of the current health care delivery system.
Leadership
How to Have a High-Performing Employed Medical Group Without a Hospital Subsidy
Article by Timothy Crowley
It’s a generally accepted view that all hospital-employed physician groups are constitutionally incapable of operating without financial support from the hospital. PinnacleHealth Medical Group found that commonsense tactics can eliminate the need for hospitals to expend precious resources to support employed physicians.
New Marketplace
Reframing the Conversation on Drug Pricing
Article by Michael Rosenblatt & Henri Termeer
We can’t afford for current trends to continue. There is only one solution.
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The MACRA Final Rule: Five Crucial Questions Asked and Answered
Article by Ron Shinkman
MACRA could be bigger than Obamacare for physicians, yet many “barely know anything about it.”
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