Bending The Cost Curve In Health Care

Author : Gregory P. Marchildon,Livio Di Matteo
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442609754

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Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care by Gregory P. Marchildon,Livio Di Matteo Pdf

Through Canadian and international perspectives, Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care explores the management of growing health costs in an extraordinarily complex arena. The book moves beyond previous debates, agreeing that while efficiencies and better value for money may yet be found, more fundamental reforms to the management and delivery of health services are essential prerequisites to bending the cost curve in the long run. While there is considerable controversy over direction and details of change, there also remains the challenge of getting agreement on the values or principles that would guide the reshaping of the policies, the structures, and the regulatory environment of health care in Canada. Leading experts from around the world representing a range of disciplines and professional backgrounds come together to organize and define the problems faced by policy-makers. Case studies from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, the Nordic countries, and industrialized Asian countries such as Taiwan offer useful reform experiences for provincial governments in Canada. Finally, common Canadian cost factors, such as pharmaceuticals and technology, and paying the health workforce, are explored. This book is the first volume in The Johnson-Shoyama Series on Public Policy, published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, an interdisciplinary centre for research, teaching, and executive training with campuses at the Universities of Regina and Saskatchewan.

Author : Gregory P. Marchildon,Livio Di Matteo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 144260977X

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Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care by Gregory P. Marchildon,Livio Di Matteo Pdf

Through Canadian and international perspectives, Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care explores the management of growing health costs in an extraordinarily complex arena.

Author : Steven Lewis,Terrence Sullivan,Institute for Research on Public Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : OCLC:865475933

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How to Bend the Cost Curve in Health Care by Steven Lewis,Terrence Sullivan,Institute for Research on Public Policy Pdf

Whatever money is saved through short-term restraint will be lost in panicked spending down the road. That's been the lesson of the past 20 years. The challenge is to bend the cost curve permanently while making the system perform better. What health value do we achieve for what we spend? Improving value for money will require governments, organizations and practitioners to leave their comfort zone of conventional practice.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Medical care
ISBN : OCLC:645147294

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Ideas and Opportunities for Bending the Health Care Cost Curve by Anonim Pdf

Author : Philip Jacobs,John Rapoport
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Medical economics
ISBN : 0763725951

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The Economics of Health and Medical Care by Philip Jacobs,John Rapoport Pdf

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Author : R W Murphy
Publisher : Aqua Clara Press
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1732333181

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Bending the Curve by R W Murphy Pdf

In this short book R.W. Murphy makes the argument that the US healthcare delivery system is irreparably broken as the result of a perfectly inelastic demand curve for healthcare goods and services. In essence, he indicates that Americans will buy the same number of units regardless of price and that is destroying the system. He points to all the retail level cost control initiatives to date as failing to address wholesale pricing pressures. His premise is that underlying wholesale cost increases have hardly been affected at all. Any cost reductions at the retail level resulting from tough utilization management have been no more than temporary "stair step" efforts that get quickly absorbed. He offers both historical perspective and going-forward options for structural change. He refers to the need to make the demand curve more price responsive as an "American Healthcare Imperative" because the inevitable alternative is serious damage to American society in its absence. He indicates that failing to act is no longer an option. R.W. Murphy has been involved in healthcare cost control since 1980. He started his career as a home office underwriter for a major US healthcare insurance company. In 1990 he became a consultant for an international firm and in 1995 formed his owned consulting company. He has been involved in virtually every cost control initiative in the last forty years - and by his own admission, has the scars to prove it. The book has been made deliberately short. It can be read in less than an hour. The author indicates that his intent has been to make Americans think about the necessity for structural change - not give them an actual road map for it. As such, he remains relatively nonpartisan regarding the options. He also is clear that he has spent less time in doing statistical research then using his professional experience to show relationships. He tells the reader to not be caught up in absolute numbers but to instead examine the historical and projected trends.The Introduction has been written under an alias by a professional healthcare administrator in West Palm Beach, Florida. By remaining anonymous, he offers candid opinions with which peer administrators might not agree. His comments come from perspective gained via vast experience on the provider side of the industry. In addition, his politics are significantly right of the author's. As such, his views provide germane counterpoint.As more a red-flag then a how-to book, at its price point it should be read by every person who believes that healthcare policy will be an important differentiating factor in the 2020 US election.

Author : Lanis L. Hicks
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Medical economics
ISBN : 9781449629861

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Economics of Health and Medical Care by Lanis L. Hicks Pdf

The Economics of Health and Medical Care is an introduction to population-based health economics as well as the traditional, market-oriented approach to health care economics. The book examines economics through the lens of descriptive, explanatory, and evaluative economics.The Sixth Edition is an extensive revision that refines its approach to evaluative economics by focusing on the tools and methods used to inform decision making, with a particular emphasis on determining alternative approaches to addressing a problem, issue, or decision and comparing the relative benefits and costs of those approaches.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1374511949

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Bending the Medicare Cost Curve in 12 Months Or Less by Anonim Pdf

The need to prioritize efforts to improve the health of the Canadian population to promote the fiscal sustainability of Medicare dates back to at least the Lalonde report (1974), and was proposed in the Kirby commission (2002) and the Romanow commission (2002): M. Lalonde, A new perspective on the health of Canadians. [...] L. Kirby, The Health of Canadians - The Federal Role: Final Report on the State of the Health Care System in Canada (Ottawa: Senate, Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, 2002); R. J. Romanow, Building on Values: The Future of Health Care in Canada: Final Report of the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada (Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 2002). [...] The value of the health care costs avoided in the immediate term would be augmented by future health care costs avoided through the prevention of chronic diseases.7 Assessing the effectiveness of the program for preventing chronic diseases is the focus of ongoing work. [...] For program participants in the first year of the program, there are statistically significant reductions of 25 per cent in the number of hospital visits and of 17 per cent in the number of emergency department visits, relative to what we observe in the age- and sex-matched controls. [...] This trend in per participant costs of the program is attributed to changes in the content and delivery of the program reflecting the experience gained through eight years of operating combined with the results of internal program evaluation and external research on the program.

Author : Sanjeev Agrawal,Mohan Giridharadas
Publisher : Forbesbooks
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1950863344

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Better Healthcare Through Math by Sanjeev Agrawal,Mohan Giridharadas Pdf

GETTING A DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENT SHOULDN'T BE HARDER THAN BOOKING A VACATION The US healthcare system excels in research, innovation, and clinical care, but is failing to keep up with the operational challenges of the digital age. Today's healthcare organizations face immense financial challenges, and their most valuable resources--people, rooms, and equipment--are being used inefficiently. The result? Long wait times for patients, overstressed staff, underused assets, and poor ROI for organizations. Why do health systems struggle with optimization? The fundamental problem is one of matching an unpredictable demand for services with a constrained supply. The math being used to solve this problem is a holdover from the paper-and-pencil era. In Better Healthcare Through Math, authors Mohan Giridharadas and Sanjeev Agrawal show you that there is a better way. Healthcare systems can harness the power of sophisticated, analytics-driven mathematics to optimize the matching of supply and demand. By upgrading to software systems built on better math, they can enable staff to make data-based decisions to flatten peaks of demand and create smoother patient flow.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309144339

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The Healthcare Imperative by Institute of Medicine,Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine Pdf

The United States has the highest per capita spending on health care of any industrialized nation but continually lags behind other nations in health care outcomes including life expectancy and infant mortality. National health expenditures are projected to exceed $2.5 trillion in 2009. Given healthcare's direct impact on the economy, there is a critical need to control health care spending. According to The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes, the costs of health care have strained the federal budget, and negatively affected state governments, the private sector and individuals. Healthcare expenditures have restricted the ability of state and local governments to fund other priorities and have contributed to slowing growth in wages and jobs in the private sector. Moreover, the number of uninsured has risen from 45.7 million in 2007 to 46.3 million in 2008. The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes identifies a number of factors driving expenditure growth including scientific uncertainty, perverse economic and practice incentives, system fragmentation, lack of patient involvement, and under-investment in population health. Experts discussed key levers for catalyzing transformation of the delivery system. A few included streamlined health insurance regulation, administrative simplification and clarification and quality and consistency in treatment. The book is an excellent guide for policymakers at all levels of government, as well as private sector healthcare workers.

Author : William Safire
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : English language
ISBN : 0380564572

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On Language by William Safire Pdf

Includes chapters on slang, jargon, and neologisms.

Author : Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld,Wendy E. Parmet,Mark A. Zezza
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781483306063

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Debates on U.S. Health Care by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld,Wendy E. Parmet,Mark A. Zezza Pdf

This issues-based reference work (available in both print and electronic formats) shines a spotlight on health care policy and practice in the United States. Impassioned debates about the best solutions to health care in America have perennially erupted among politicians, scholars of public policy, medical professionals, and the general public. The fight over the Health Care Reform Act of 2010 brought to light a multitude of fears, challenges, obstacles, and passions that often had the effect of complicating rather than clarifying the debate. The discourse has never been more heated. The complex issues that animate the health care debate have forced the American public to grapple with the exigencies of the present system with regard to economic, fiscal, and monetary policy, especially as they relate to philosophical, often ideologically driven approaches to the problem. Americans have also had to examine their ideas about the relationship of the individual to and interaction with the state and the varied social and cultural beliefs about what an American solution to the problem of health care looks like. In light of the need to keep students, researchers, and other interested readers informed and up-to-date on the issues surrounding health care in the U.S., this volume uses introductory essays followed by point/counterpoint articles to explore prominent and perennially important debates, providing readers with views on multiple sides of this complex issue. Features & Benefits: The volume is divided into three sections, each with its own Section Editor: Quality of Care Debates (Dr. Jennie Kronenfeld), Economic & Fiscal Debates (Dr. Mark Zezza), and Political, Philosophical, & Legal Debates (Prof. Wendy Parmet). Sections open with a Preface by the Section Editor to introduce the broad theme at hand and provide historical underpinnings. Each Section holds 12 chapters addressing varied aspects of the broad theme of the section. Chapters open with an objective, lead-in piece (or "headnote") followed by a point article and a counterpoint article. All pieces (headnote, point article, counterpoint article) are signed. For each chapter, students are referred to further readings, data sources, and other resources as a jumping-off spot for further research and more in-depth exploration. Finally, the volume concludes with a comprehensive index, and the electronic version of the book includes search-and-browse features, as well as the ability to link to further readings cited within chapters should they be available to the library in electronic format.

Author : Katherine Fierlbeck
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781487515935

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Nova Scotia by Katherine Fierlbeck Pdf

Despite notable variation in health care policy from province to province, most scholarship published on the health care system in Canada uses a broad national perspective. Focusing on the health care systems of individual Canadian provinces and territories, our new series, Health System Profiles, examines the social, political, economic, and epidemiological context of health care policy in each Canadian province. Turning a critical eye to the health care system in Nova Scotia, author Katherine Fierlbeck outlines the organizational and regulatory frameworks structuring provincial health care, while providing a detailed assessment of Nova Scotia’s health financing, physical infrastructure, service provision, and the efficacy of technological resources used in data tracking and health quality assessments. Structured for ease of comparison, Nova Scotia: A Health System Profile will, along with other volumes in the series, help scholars draw analytic evidence-based policy conclusions about the health system of Nova Scotia and other Canadian provinces and territories.

Author : Andrew Jakabovics,Lynn M. Ross,Molly Simpson,Michael Spotts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0874203503

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Bending the Cost Curve by Andrew Jakabovics,Lynn M. Ross,Molly Simpson,Michael Spotts Pdf

Conducted in partnership with Enterprise Community Partners, this research initiative examines the various cost drivers hindering the development of affordable rental housing. It explores both the cost drivers of affordable rental housing and proposes actionable recommendations to expand the supply of affordable rentals.

Author : Noralou Roos,Kathleen O'Grady,Eileen Boriskewich,Mélanie Meloche-Holubowski,Carolyn Shimmin,Kristy Wittmeier,Nanci Armstrong
Publisher : EvidenceNetwork.ca
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780995157323

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Why We Need More Canadian Health Policy in the Media by Noralou Roos,Kathleen O'Grady,Eileen Boriskewich,Mélanie Meloche-Holubowski,Carolyn Shimmin,Kristy Wittmeier,Nanci Armstrong Pdf

Why We Need More Canadian Health Policy in the Media is a compilation of health policy commentaries published by EvidenceNetwork.ca experts in major newspapers in 2015. These articles highlight the most recent evidence on a wide range of health policy topics, including our aging population, healthcare costs and spending, mental health, pharmaceutical policy, the social determinants of health and distinctions between the Canadian and American healthcare system among other topics. This is the fourth volume in the annual series of eBooks produced by EvidenceNetwork.ca, the first being Canadian Health Policy in the News (2013), followed by Making Evidence Matter in Canadian Health Policy (2014) and Navigating the Evidence: Communicating Canadian Health Policy in the Media (2015). We acknowledge the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Research Manitoba, the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, the George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation, CIHR’s Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, and their Institute of Population and Public Health, The Canadian Frailty Network, and the University of Manitoba’s Department of Community Health Sciences and Max Rady College of Medicine whose funding supports EvidenceNetwork.ca.