Introduction to Managed Care for New Hires

This course describes the “nuts and bolts” of managed care and thoroughly covers the issues surrounding payer contract analysis and negotiation. Selected modules from this course are valuable for management and clinicians throughout a hospital or health system as an on-site private course or through an association as a membership learning activity. WHAT YOU'LL...

Value-based healthcare: Of Value to Whom?

CEO & Founder Mercury Healthcare InternationalValue-based pricing arrangements have become a euphemism for risk transfer agreements that transfer the costs associated with healthcare delivery to providers while the payers that contract with providers apply measures that limit their financial risk. That's not surprising; they aren't in the business of healthcare. They are in the business...

Maria Todd Presents First CIS Workshop in Ukraine on Health Tourism Business Development

International Health Tourism Expert, Maria Todd Presented the First Workshop in Ukraine on Health Tourism Business Development On 1 October 2014, Ukrainian conference organizer JK Consulting in collaboration with the Turkish Health Tourism Development Council (THTDC) and the Global Health Tourism Council (GHTC), sponsored the first half-day workshop on Health Tourism Business Development. The workshop...