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Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees

Harvard Business Review

Bundled payments in health care have gained favor because they can reduce costs and help improve outcomes. In essence, episodic bundles cover the cost of a patient’s care from start to finish—all the procedures, devices, tests, drugs and services a patient will need for, say, a knee replacement or back surgery.

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Stop Saying Big Companies Can’t Innovate

Harvard Business Review

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

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Giving Seriously Ill Patients More Choices About Their Care

Harvard Business Review

Nearly everyone in health care wants to cut waste and reduce unnecessary costs — until the conversation turns to advanced chronic illness and end-of-life care. Fears about “pulling the plug on granny,” no matter how ill she may be, have slowed progress toward value-based care. Insight Center.

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Running a State Health Insurance Marketplace

Harvard Business Review

In the era of the Affordable Care Act, consumers in the U.S. can now purchase private health insurance in 14 state-based marketplaces (SBMs), along with the federally facilitated marketplace (FFM). By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., region, as it navigates a dramatic shift from competing by offering integrated, comprehensive medical services to offering lower cost preventive care. The innovation portfolio.

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Rethinking How Medicaid Patients Receive Care

Harvard Business Review

In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. The Future of Health Care. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Hero Images/Getty Images.

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Connecting Unemployed Youth with Organizations That Need Talent

Harvard Business Review

Meanwhile, the alternative — housing subsidies, unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, even incarceration costs — generate huge social costs. A study conducted by Innovate + Educate , which uses research-based strategies to address the U.S. A 2015 study that we conducted with the U.S.