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The U.S. Healthcare Ecosystem Lawton Robert Burns

The U.S. Healthcare Ecosystem By Lawton Robert Burns

The U.S. Healthcare Ecosystem by Lawton Robert Burns


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The U.S. Healthcare Ecosystem: Payers, Providers, Producers by Lawton Robert Burns

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The navigator you need to find your way through the process and operational complexities of the U.S. healthcare system

From a seasoned professor of healthcare management at The Wharton School, The U.S. Healthcare Ecosystem provides a new perspective to the subject-navigating readers through complicated environment where healthcare customers, healthcare providers, and those who create products used in healthcare all interact. Emphasizing processes and operations, this thorough resource provides expert insight into important themes, i.e., how the goals of healthcare relate to the the iron triangle (cost, quality, and access) and the triple aim (per capita cost, population health, and patient experience).

Chapters include brief but timely cases that inspire you to think more critically about what you hear and read about the healthcare industry and make your own informed assessments. Packed with 200 illustrations, The U.S. Healthcare Ecosystem Covers often-neglected topics, such as employer-based health insurance, pharmacy benefits, healthcare consolidation, and biotechnology.

Features:

*Contains the most current statistics and industry developments
*Every chapter begins with a roadmap and ends with a summary and questions to ponder
*Includes insights to drug discovery and development, biotechnology, and information technology, i.e., the marriage of life sciences and business
*Reflects the insights and feedback of 60+ professors


About Lawton Robert Burns

L. Robert Burns, PhD, MBA, is at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he serves as the James Joo-Jin Kim Professor, Health Care Management; Professor of Management; Director, Wharton Center for Health Management and Economics; and Co-Director, Roy & Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management.

Table of Contents

SECTION I - FOUNDATIONS OF THE ECOSYSTEM
CHAPTER 1: Introduction
CHAPTER 2: A Guide Through the Wilderness
CHAPTER 3: What Is a Healthcare System?
CHAPTER 4: Population Health
CHAPTER 5: Goals of Healthcare
CHAPTER 6: The 800-Pound Gorilla: Rising Healthcare Costs
CHAPTER 7: Managing Quality: Another 800-Pound Gorilla?

SECTION II - PROVIDER SECTORS IN THE ECOSYSTEM
CHAPTER 8: Healthcare Providers
CHAPTER 9: The Medical Profession
CHAPTER 10: Primary Care: Physicians, Nurses, and Pharmacists
CHAPTER 11: Hospitals
CHAPTER 12: Hospital Diversification, Restructuring, and Integration
CHAPTER 13: Organized Ambulatory Care
CHAPTER 14: Post-Acute Care

SECTION III - PAYER SECTORS IN THE ECOSYSTEM
CHAPTER 15: Employer-Based Health Insurance
CHAPTER 16: Contracting for Prescription Drug Benefits: Role of Employers, Insurers, and Pharmacy Benefit Managers
CHAPTER 17: Private Health Insurance and Managed Care Organizations
CHAPTER 18: Medicare
CHAPTER 19: Medicaid and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

SECTION IV - TECHNOLOGY SECTORS IN THE ECOSYSTEM
CHAPTER 20: The Healthcare Technology Sectors
CHAPTER 21: The Pharmaceutical Sector
CHAPTER 22: The Biotechnology Sector
CHAPTER 23: The MedTech Sector
CHAPTER 24: Healthcare Information Technology

SECTION V - THE PUBLIC SECTOR OF THE ECOSYSTEM
CHAPTER 25: The Federal Bureaucracy, the US Congress, and Healthcare Policy
CHAPTER 26: The Public Health System


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GOR012693371
9781264264476
126426447X
The U.S. Healthcare Ecosystem: Payers, Providers, Producers by Lawton Robert Burns
Used - Very Good
Paperback
McGraw-Hill Education
20210412
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