BENCHMARKING: Seriously, WTH??
Raise your hand if you’ve ever witnessed, or been a participant in the following life event, or something similar:"Johnny, why did you rip holes in that brand new pair of jeans? ""Well dad, that’s how everyone else is wearing them….they did it first….""Son, if everyone was jumping off a ...
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Overcoming Misconceptions About Healthcare Benefits: Part 4
Albert Einstein knew that the quality of a solution was directly related to a person's ability to identify the problem they were trying to solve. He famously said, “If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.”So far in this ...
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Overcoming Misconceptions About Healthcare Benefits: Part 3
Cost Reduction vs. Cost ShiftingI'm not quite sure that passengers were literally rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic as it sank in 1912, but the saying is often used to describe a futile action in the face of impending catastrophe. In other words, it means to do something that contributes nothing to the ...
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Overcoming Misconceptions About Health Benefits: Part 2
Let's continue on in this analysis, shall we? In Part 1, we discussed the very common misconceptions that "networks", namely PPO networks, reduce healthcare costs, and that 10% annual cost increases are "normal". Neither of which are true. Let's pick up where we left off.Similar to the misconception that networks ...
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Overcoming Misconceptions About Health Benefits: Part 1
Over this past weekend, I decided to dig in to the 2019/2020, 600 page budget for the City of Amarillo, and specifically focus on the health benefits and risk management portions of the budget. I wanted to see if there was anything in the budget language that would help me understand the thought process or the ...
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Healthcare is the Biggest Opportunity For Economic Expansion
Healthcare is arguably the biggest opportunity for economic expansion in our communities. Allow me to illustrate:The Largest 10 Employers in Amarillo employ approximately 20,000 local residents. That’s 10% of the entire City’s population, employed by just 10 organizations. (I know, wicked math ...
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WEBINAR: Direct Primary Care: Medical Dojo
Better Quality Healthcare at a Fraction of the Pricehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuHFdY-OpzI&t=2956sToday we held a webinar in conjunction with Medical Dojo, Amarillo's premier Direct Primary Care (DPC) practice. Partners Dr. Libby Ellington, Deeter Prater, and Elliot McKinney have committed to ...
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