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How Health Care Providers Can Ensure Patients’ End-of-Life Wishes Are Known

Harvard Business

Efforts to boost participation in these conversations include the introduction of new billing codes to financially incentivize primary care physicians to discuss ACP, as well as grassroots advocacy efforts to highlight the importance of discussing end-of-life wishes. Here are our recommendations. Build a national registry.

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5 Ways U.S. Hospitals Can Respond to Medicare’s Mounting Costs

Harvard Business

As aging baby boomers continue to join the program, Medicare enrollment will rise at 3% a year until the end of the decade in 2029, and 2.4% What this means for hospitals is crystal clear: Unless their losses from treating Medicare patients can be contained, their financial future is in jeopardy! The losses of U.S.

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Competing in the Huge Digital Economies of China and India

Harvard Business

In our Digital Evolution Index (DEI), we place them in the “digital south” which means the full deployment and adoption of online systems is still in development. The private sector, companies such as Alibaba – e.g. Sesame Credit, run by the Ant Financial, an Alibaba affiliate.