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Get Your Boss Out of Your Bedroom

Harvard Business Review

But that's how the current kerfluffle over employer-provided health insurance covering contraception feels to me — about as comfortable as sitting down with my boss to talk Cialis. Funneling health insurance access through corporations just adds one more layer of complexity to a system that is already a complete muddle.

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Intelligent Redesign of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Kaplan and Michael E. Project team members with finance expertise contribute by supplying the cost rate for each person and equipment involved in the care processes. Why Less Choice Is More in Health Insurance Exchanges. From the Editors of Harvard Business Review and the New England Journal of Medicine. Health Operations'

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Strong Patient-Provider Relationships Drive Healthier Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. SCF’s focus on relationships is mirrored in its approach to finance.