In short, this new crop of pass-through, transparent vendors represents a new paradigm, a high-performance drug management alternative, that merits the close inspection of benefits managers and benefits advisors. Brian Klepper is a health care analyst and advisor focused on identifying, vetting, and...
Gordon is an Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow and an Eisenhower Fellow. She was a 2011 Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40 honoree and a volunteer at MIT’s Delta V start-up accelerator, the Fierce Healthcare Innovation Awards. She earned her bioethics degree from Brown University and ...
A great deal has been written about healthcare cost trends for the US nationally and to some degree at the state level, but few analysts have focused their attention at the metropolitan area level. Since metropolitan areas tend to represent economically coherent geographic areas, decision-making ...
Role of the Funder/Sponsor: The funders had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Meeting Presentation: This wor...
Role of the Sponsors: The funders of this study had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, and approval of the manuscript; or decision to submit the manuscript for publication. References 1. Niefel...
construction enterprises of different sizes, namely, Industrial Group, Group A, and Construction Enterprise B, and concluded that the overall level of environmental competitiveness of construction enterprises in my country is not high, among the environmental management and construction capabilities of ...
The multiple benefits of mass canine rabies vaccination in this case included elimination of rabies reservoirs in the domestic dog population, prevention of canine-mediated livestock rabies deaths, elimination of human rabies cases, and reduction in the rabies economic burden by reducing expenditures on...
While these affect the retention or dissatisfaction of HRH, the country’s health sector financing and health workforce management schemes are also inseparable from international political and economic conditions. Reductions in government expenditures in health, privatization as health financing strategy, and...
Relaxing patient satisfaction incentives may encourage physicians to prioritize the benefits of truthful therapeutic discourse, despite the risks of dissatisfying some patients. In a nationally representative sample, higher patient satisfaction was associated with increased inpatient utilization and with increased...
The propensity score matching–based subgroup analysis involved propensity score matching between those having most of their primary care evaluation and management visits through the employer-sponsored comprehensive primary care program (the treatment group) vs not using employer-sponsored clinics (the ...