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Health Aff (Millwood)
March 2020
The Affordable Care Act promoted payment reforms directly and through the creation of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, which it endowed with the authority to introduce Alternative Payment Models (APMs) into Medicare and Medicaid. We conducted a narrative review of these payment reforms, finding that several programs generated modest savings while maintaining or improving the quality of care, but they had high dropout rates. In general, evidence for other APMs is less conclusive, and whether the reforms spurred similar changes in the private sector remains anecdotal.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFor-profit healthcare companies aren't beating down the door to get in on Medicare ACOs. Several of the big chains say there is too much uncertainty about the experiment, and they're waiting to see how the program evolves. One company on the sideline is Capella Healthcare.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhy do people start businesses? For the money and the chance to control their own companies, certainly. But new research from Harvard Business School professor Wasserman shows that those goals are largely incompatible. The author's studies indicate that a founder who gives up more equity to attract cofounders, new hires, and investors builds a more valuable company than one who parts with less equity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHarv Bus Rev
October 2007
Accenture's Institute for High Performance Business, Boston, USA.
They're nominally and ultimately responsible for strategy, but today's CEOs have less and less time to devote to it. As a result, CEOs are appointing "chief strategy officers"--executives specifically tasked with creating, communicating, executing, and sustaining a company's strategic initiatives. In this article, three authors from Accenture share the results of their research on this emerging organizational role.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe success of an executive team depends heavily on the relationships the boss has with his or her direct reports. Yet the leadership literature has had little to say about what is expected in those relationships-on either side. Larry Bossidy, formerly the chairman and CEO of Honeywell, and before that of AlliedSignal, shares what he calls "the CEO compact," detailing the behaviors a leader should look for in subordinates and what they should be able to expect in return.
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