Baylor University’s Neil Fleming addresses the tension between individual rights and potential improvements in patient care in an article about Ascension Health’s decision to share patient data with Google: http://bit.ly/2Or6HKT
Opinion: ‘Medicare for all’ won’t fix soaring healthcare costs
BAHM Board President Kevin Schulman offers his take on healthcare costs amid the Medicare for All debate: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-11-15/medicare-for-all-health-care-costs
BAHM Welcomes INCAE Business School in Costa Rica as Its Newest Member
INCAE Business School has become the latest top-ranked business program to join the Business School Alliance for Health Management (BAHM), an international organization focused on advancing thought leadership in the business of healthcare in the United States and across the global health sector. “We are pleased to welcome INCAE...
INCAE, IESE, Heidelberg and Strathmore Launch Senior Executive Programme in Global Health
The first module of the Senior Executive Programme in Global Health Innovation Management was launched at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) on May 20. This program consists of four modules to be offered in four different countries: Germany, Costa Rica, Kenya, and Spain. “SEP GHIM is one more initiative...
Incentive-Compatible Prehospital Triage in Emergency Medical Services
Using data from a national survey and levels of triage effectiveness demonstrated in the literature, Eric M. Webb, University of Cincinnati, and Alex F. Mills, Baruch College, conservatively estimate that Medicare alone could save between $3 and $70 million per year (depending on triage effectiveness) by providing incentives for...
Resolving Surprise Medical Bills
In his latest article co-authored with Stanford’s Arnold Milstein and Duke’s Barak Richman, Kevin Schulman argues that Congress can help cut the high cost of healthcare by passing proposed legislation that would cap charges for surprise medical bills: https://bit.ly/2XGUSCE
Rising Health Care Charges: A Red Herring in a Value-Based Health Care World?
In the most recent issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, David J. Ballard, Executive Vice President & Chief Clinical Officer at Mentice, and Baylor University’s Neil Fleming, analyze the implications of a recent study demonstrating a rise in hospital charges for surgical episodes despite the concurrent decline in the costs...
The Doctor-of-the-Future Is In: Patient Responses to Disruptive Health-Care Innovations
Kevin Schulman and Stacy Wood write in the most recent issue of the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research about the increasing importance between marketing and medicine as patients respond in varying ways to changes in healthcare innovations. There is a greater need for consumer research to understand...
NYT: Hospitals Stand to Lose Billions Under ‘Medicare for All’
Private insurance pays hospitals much more than the federal government does for patient care. If Medicare for all means Medicare rates, expect an industry backlash. Read the entire New York Times article, which quotes Kevin Schulman, BAHM’s Board President.
Antitrust Law Does Not Require Rx Drug Rebates, And It Does Not Prohibit Discounts
A review of relevant law reveals that the Trump administration is not nearly as hampered by antitrust law as the pharmaceutical benefits manager industry argues. Antitrust law does not prohibit manufacturers from offering discounts on drug prices, and antitrust law cannot justify the industry’s current aggressive use of rebates,...