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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
We can’t afford for current trends to continue. There is only one solution.
MACRA could be bigger than Obamacare for physicians, yet many “barely know anything about it.”
If you’re doing the same thing as everyone else, the same way, you’re ultimately competing on price.
The threat to individual market stability is real. We need to fix it before it's too late.
Efforts to reform or replace the ACA should proceed with the knowledge that highly publicized market exits are a poor and probably inaccurate signal of a failing market.
The same rules of business apply for health care when it comes to new market opportunity.
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