You Can’t Price a New Network With An Old Operating Model
Why aggressive premium reduction requires redesigning how care actually flows
Mike Eaton
Performance Improvement Plus Portfolio Repositioning
Primary Care Without Permission
For decades, primary care has been the gatekeeper of American medicine. Now, it is at an inflection point.
When the Market Doesn’t Reward Health
Until profit follows health, reform will remain a moral aspiration constrained by economic design. The question isn’t whether we can improve population health. It’s whether we are finally willing to create a market that pays us to do it.
Faster, Smarter, Simpler
Too often, we optimize what isn’t actually broken or spend years fixing symptoms instead of reframing the real problem. The hardest problems in healthcare often persist not because they’re unsolvable but because we’re looking at them the wrong way.
VBC Capital Efficiency
In an environment where financial margins are tight, labor is constrained, and value-based expectations are rising, capital efficiency defines an organization’s ability to stay competitive. It is about achieving the greatest measurable impact with the least investment, in the shortest time.
Leader's Toolkit: Challenging the Anchor
Health system leaders need to see that there is no longer safety in the middle. Strategy must evolve from incremental optimization to intentional provocation. Six steps for learning from the fringe and five tools for leaders.