Category: System Dynamics

Overcoming Medical Orthodoxy (4-Part Series)

This series looks at ways forward-thinking health systems are preparing clinicians to meet the demands of New Medicine… Read More

By David W. Johnson May 19, 2022

Policy

Capitalism, Perversions, and Health Utilities

The collision of capitalism, healthcare, and a government payment system has produced perversions in the healthcare system that… Read More

By Kerry Weems May 17, 2022

Policy

Hospital + Doctors = Higher Prices

I told you. Beware the vertically integrated employed physician. Maybe now you’ll believe me. A new study in Health… Read More

By David Burda May 11, 2022

Economics

Burda on Healthcare: 10 Things I Didn’t Know About Drugs and Drug Prices

I don’t know a lot about the pharmaceutical industry. Although I’ve been on the healthcare beat as a… Read More

By David Burda May 5, 2022

Economics

Cracks in the Foundation (Part 4): Overcoming U.S. Health Systems’ Brittle Business Model

U.S. health systems’ reliance on centralized, high-cost platforms (e.g., hospitals) to deliver routine care is baffling to me…. Read More

By David W. Johnson May 4, 2022

Economics

PE-Owned Hospitals Are Better at Something

Everyone’s favorite healthcare punching bag right now is private equity. I’ve taken my share of swings at PE-owned… Read More

By David Burda May 4, 2022

COVID-19

Podcast: 4sight Friday Roundup, What Physician Employment Has to do with Telemedicine 4/29/22

What Physician Employment Has to do with Telemedicine The pandemic chased independent physicians into the arms of hospitals,… Read More

By David Burda April 29, 2022

Policy

Separate And Unequal (Part 1): Healthcare’s Profound Maldistribution of Facilities

Ready. Set. Stumble. As part of its announcement of payment guidelines for FY 2023, the Centers for Medicare… Read More

By David W. Johnson April 28, 2022

Economics

Providers’ List of Value-Base Care Reimbursement Demands

By any measure or definition, we’re a long way from full adoption of value-based care reimbursement in the… Read More

By David Burda April 27, 2022

System Dynamics