Category: advance-pricing
Under-Appreciated Benefits of Markets
By Robert Nelson, MD Honest price-transparent markets allow value propositions to surface and to be discovered. Contrary to the outcries of many academics, intellectuals and utopian collectivist, free markets don’t create wide-spread abuses or anarchy in peaceful law-abiding Societies. The …
Carrier Networks and the Cartel-ization of Healthcare
by Robert Nelson, MD When we have a situation, as we do in healthcare, where the networks have cornered the market and control the pipeline of patients, along with the magnitude & directional flow of money in the system, …
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The Triumvirate of Healthcare Spending
by Robert Nelson, MD 1. Price distortion 2. Price Insulation 3. Price Confusion Shared via PowerPoint on Android.
How to Control Healthcare Costs: Know Why They are High
by Robert Nelson, MD The formula for excessive Healthcare spending: Most healthcare $$ resources tied up in premiums/billing cycle + lack of price transparency + Patients chasing benefits + Doctors chasing billing codes + No incentives to care about …
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The Change We Seek We Must Create
The reach and effectiveness of healthcare innovation and change is ultimately staked to how we pay for healthcare in aggregate. Building economic paradigms with more attractive price-value relationships will be the conduit through which change will emerge. 1.Employer education & …
Same Transparent Price to Any Willing Buyer
By Robert Nelson, MD Within many of the posts regarding the challenges facing healthcare, someone – usually out of frustration – will inevitably pose the following: “So what is the solution?” Well, the answers won’t be found in repeating partisan …
Replacing Myths with Markets
Hardly a week goes by that we don’t hear a defense from the status quo about how different healthcare is from any other services or commodities. The dogma, based on economic fallacies, is pervasive. We’re asked to believe that advanced …
