Health care in the next curve : transforming a dysfunctional industry /
Healthcare in the U.S. is at a critical juncture. We face a continued upward spiral in the number of people with chronic diseases and disabilities. As demands on our current health system grow, so will costs. But as a society we are approaching the upper limit of how much we are willing (or able) to...
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New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2018
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Table of Contents:
- It's not the future we used to have
- Health care's perfect storm
- What happened to health insurance?
- Follow the money : a broken payment model
- Silos, everywhere
- The real costs of regulation
- Where's the competition?
- Why government health care isn't the answer?
- Market disruptors and transformers
- Destinations of the next curve
- First, the safety nets
- Insurance and choice, once again
- From production to value
- No more silos : patient-centered care in the next curve
- Less regulation, better health care
- Positioning strategies for the new future.
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Author; SECTION I: INDUSTRY DYSFUNCTION: ITS ROOT CAUSES AND EFFECTS; 1: It's Not the Future We Used to Have; The Old Future; The Curves of Health Care; The Root Causes of Industry Dysfunction; The Economic Human and the Next Curve; Fast Forward: A New Future; This Book: A Look Ahead; References; 2: Health Care's Perfect Storm; The Gathering Forces; What's Wrong with This Picture?; Costs on an Upward Trajectory; Heading toward a Spending Ceiling; Is Rationing the Default Scenario?; References
- 3: What Happened to Health Insurance?A Perfectly Dysfunctional Model; Affordable Access: Still No Fix; Mandates Mean Fewer Products, Higher Prices; Employer Health Plans: Not What They're Cracked Up to Be; Medicare Trouble Ahead; Medicaid Also Facing an Uncertain Future; One Size Doesn't Fit All; References; 4: Follow the Money: A Broken Payment Model; Why Not "Food Insurance?"; Fee-for-Service an Incentive for Utilization; Impact on Care Coordination; A Recipe for Waste, Fraud, and Abuse; Moving toward Value; Problems Measuring Value; References; 5: Silos, Everywhere
- Automobiles Get Pretty Good Health CareWhere's the "System" in Health Care?; The Problems of Service Fragmentation; Information Silos: Part of the Problem; Geographic Silos, Too; Population Health: More Teamwork Needed; Silo Culture Part of the Industry's DNA; References; 6: The Real Costs of Regulation; The Perils of Regulatory Overreach; The Computer Will See You Now; The Price of Regulating Prices; Certificate of Need a CON Job; More Regulation, Less Innovation; Frozen in Time; Tort Reform, a Critical Need; The Real Costs of Regulation; References; 7: Where's the Competition?
- Competition and ValueMore Government, Less Competition; Independent Physicians: An Endangered Species; Eroding Competition in the Insurance Market; Conflicting Market Signals; Narrow Networks, Narrower Choices; Consumers Caught in the Middle; References; 8: Why Government Health Care Isn't the Answer; "It's the Government: They Know Best...."; Medicare for None?; Single Payer Means Higher Costs; Rationing Is an Inevitable Outcome; Impacts on Education, Research, and Innovation; Administrative Costs Aren't Necessarily Lower; Single Payer Very Popular-Until People Understand What It Is
- Americans Don't Do Socialism Very WellReferences; 9: Market Disruptors and Transformers; Big Data and a New World of Precision Medicine; The Patient Is in; A Fusion of Segments; Employers/Health Care; Big Pharma/Insurance/Health Care; Providers/Health Plans; Providers/Suppliers; Is the Community Hospital Becoming Obsolete?; Collective Consciousness and an Empowered Market; References; SECTION II: HEALTH CARE IN THE NEXT CURVE: A ROADMAP TO INDUSTRY TRANSFORMATION; 10: Destinations of the Next Curve; Access, Choice, and Value; Access; Choice; Value; A Roadmap to Industry Transformation
