Healthcare Pizza May 12, 2020
What Are Provider-Sponsored Health Plans?
Throughout history, there have been many famous rivalries. Yankees v. Red Sox. Pepsi v. Coca Cola. UNC Chapel Hill v. Duke. But there is only one that stands above all the rest: University of Michigan Wolverines v. Ohio State Buckeyes. In college football, it is simply referred to as “The Game.” Now this is a healthcare innovation blog, so the equivalent to “The Game” in the U.S. healthcare system could only be between the two most important organizations, health plans and hospitals. One holds the money, the other delivers the care. Ardent supporters lob criticism towards each other’s stakeholders related to rising healthcare costs and insufficient innovation. The unstoppable force meeting the immovable object.
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