Category: Economics

Letting Go: Steward Sells Its Hospitals and Embraces Patient-Centric Care

Last September, Massachusetts-based Steward Health Care System announced that it would sell its 9 hospitals to Alabama-based Medical… Read More

By David W. Johnson and Robert Fraiman January 23, 2017

Economics

The Rise and Fall of Academic Medicine: AMC Competitiveness in Post-Reform Healthcare

Rome wasn’t built in a day and didn’t collapse overnight. After centuries of growth, prosperity and domination, the… Read More

By David W. Johnson and David Morlock December 12, 2016

Economics

Value Quest: Capital Formation Challenges for Non-Profit Health Systems

by David W. Johnson, James Moloney and Carsten Beith There’s a battle outside and it’s ragin’ It’ll… Read More

By David W. Johnson October 26, 2016

Consumerism

Epi(c) Pharmaceutical Market Failure

It was hard not to feel sorry for Mylan CEO Heather Bresch as she sat for an extended… Read More

By David W. Johnson September 13, 2016

Economics

The Big Lift: Improving Public Health Exchanges

Bring out the Xanax. Anxiety among Obamacare supporters is skyrocketing. The bad news just keeps coming. Aetna has… Read More

By David W. Johnson August 24, 2016

Outcomes

Where’s the Beef? Employers Question the Value of Hospital Mergers

In an iconic 1984 commercial for Wendy’s hamburgers, the diminutive octogenarian Clara Peller and two friends are eating… Read More

By David W. Johnson August 10, 2016

Consumerism

Healthcare’s Dysfunctional Pricing: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.

The Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) released its annual report of healthcare prices last month. To no-one’s surprise,… Read More

By David W. Johnson July 13, 2016

Economics

Asset-Light and Ready: Physician Groups Embrace Accountable Care

Hockey superstar Wayne Gretzky gave the business world its most over-used strategic metaphor, “I skate to where the… Read More

By David W. Johnson July 12, 2016

Economics

Manipulating Demand: Paying Patients for Lower-Cost Care

Market Corner Commentary for January 13, 2016-Manipulating Demand: Paying Patients for Lower-Cost Care In October, Planet Money aired… Read More

By David W. Johnson January 12, 2016

Economics