Long-form pieces, published when we have something worth arguing rather than on a content calendar. Written by the person who did the work.
What a decade of employer-coverage data means for value-based networks — and the case for a first-dollar primary care layer underneath the deductible.
Read the analysisA hospital system, a dominant payer, and a moment where the tempting move would have cost more than it won. Based on an engagement our team lived through.
Read the analysisUnskilled negotiators seek victory through power and coercion. Real leverage is creativity, nuance, and reframing the problem — using a dominant payer’s strengths against their position.
Read the analysisA neighbor, a back injury, a prescription — and everything that followed. Why addiction is rarely the moral failing people assume it to be.
Read the essayCare management operates under hard resource limits, so we spend nearly everything on a tiny fraction of the population. What it would take to reach rising risk instead.
Read the analysisA patient discharged after a serious battle with sepsis, and everything the system did and did not do next. Delivered to the World Congress ACO and Population Health conference.
Read the analysisThe conversation every population health executive has had with a hospital CFO about $10 million of reduced inpatient revenue — and how to answer it honestly.
Read the analysisNothing here yet for that search.
A handful of things that changed, and what each one means for a provider organization. Sent when there is something worth sending.