alternative payment models

MedCity Influencers

Rising Healthcare Costs Require New Solutions

The American Hospital Association reports that since 2000, hospitals of all types have provided about $745 billion in uncompensated patient care. The goal is to get healthcare providers out of the banking business and shift the financial relationship to third-party financial service providers who take over the payment process for all.

MedCity Influencers, Health Tech

How to End the Turf Battles of Senior Care

Let’s tear down the silos that transport seniors through the classic stages of hospitals, rehab, assisted living, and nursing homes. Value-based care or better yet, global risk, has a way of disintegrating these silos. If providers want to get paid, they must collaborate. That means instead of treating a singular issue, we must reach out to the rest of the ecosystem, coordinating treatment and driving together toward a meaningful outcome.

Hospitals

To improve patient outcomes, we must measure them

“An eighty-two-year-old man developed fainting episodes. His tests showed severe blockages in three coronary arteries and both carotid arteries. The doctors recommended doing a cardiac-bypass operation as soon as possible, followed by surgery to open up one of his carotid arteries.” A detailed account of his story is written in The New Yorker article titled Overkill […]