by joeflower | May 19, 2015 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
A historic chart of health care spending exposes the culprit in rising costs: code-based fee-for-service medicine. To Be Notified When the Book Is Available for Purchase Go Here Cost is the big factor. Cost is why we can’t have nice things. The overwhelmingly vast...
by joeflower | May 13, 2015 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Systems Thinking, Volume to Value
Atul Gawande’s new New Yorker article, “Overkill: America’s Epidemic of Unnecessary Care,” brilliantly lays out why and how we are getting so much overtesting, overdiagnosis, and overtreatment — testing that is inappropriate, not helpful, and...
by joeflower | Apr 2, 2015 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Management, New Healthcare Technology, Top Healthcare Stories
I talk to people all the time in health care at big civic gatherings; board retreats; conventions of nurses, physicians, managers of medical groups and accountable care organizations and health plans and device manufacturers. I give a talk, sit on a panel, run a...
by joeflower | Mar 10, 2015 | Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Top Healthcare Stories
By now, you have likely heard analyses of last week’s Obamacare-killer King v. Burwell Supreme Court case. But what will make a real difference to you and your organization? Here are the three things you most need to know about the case: Which outcome you should be...
by joeflower | Jan 20, 2015 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Management, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
There are no winners in the fee-for-service game. It’s time to toss the whole business-as-usual model — for your own good and the good of your customers. The emerging Default Model of health care — the “consumer-directed” insured fee-for-service model in which health...
by joeflower | Apr 5, 2014 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Top Healthcare Stories
Being against Obamacare has been the keystone, the capstone, the mighty sledgehammer, the massive metaphor of your choice for the right for five years now. They couldn’t stop it from being passed. They couldn’t stop it at the Supreme Court. They...