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

Harvard Business

Candidate centers must provide information including detailed clinical protocols, surgical-patient selection criteria, clinical registry participation (more on that below), information on multidisciplinary shared decision-making, as well as institutional and physician-level performance metrics.

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Why This Health System Offers Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients

Harvard Business

While the program does have marginal costs (more on this further on) we feel that the benefits in terms of learning, process improvement, and patient experience more than offset these. Our health insurance plan had properly notified its members about a new $1,000 copayment for a certain type of surgery.

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