Showing posts with label perverse incentives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label perverse incentives. Show all posts

Monday, May 18, 2015

What is the "Worst Biotech CEO" Worth?

Recently, we posted about misadventures of the leadership of biotechnology giant Genzyme.  Although the company has long priced its drug Ce...
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Sunday, May 17, 2015

"Compensation Madness" - "Insiders Hijacking Established Institutions for their Personal Benefit"

As we learn more about the causes of the global financial melt-down, aka great recession, the lessons appear more applicable to health care....
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Friday, May 15, 2015

To Whom Does a Leading "Off-Shore" Medical School Owe its Allegiance?

We have noted how existing US medical schools seem unwilling to invest or reward teaching (see post here .)   It is no secret in academic me...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

The Health Care Reform Bill and Health Care Renewal

I have not written much about the seemingly endless health care reform debate in the US, because much of it has not been relevant to the iss...
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More Doubts About Private Equity Taking Over Not-for-Profit Hospital Systems

Last week, we posted about how buy-outs of not-for-profit hospital systems by private equity firms seemed to be a new fashion in health car...
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What Me Worry? - Leaders Prosper Despite Questions About Their Organizations' Ethics and Performance

There were two examples in the recent news about how the leaders of health care organizations seem to prosper no matter what questions are r...
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What Me Worry, Redux - Another Leader Prospers Despite Questions about His Organization's Ethics and Performance

We have posted lately ( here and here ) about how leaders of health care organizations seem to be getting even richer despite questions abo...
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Pay for Hypocrisy for Health Insurance Executives

A few weeks ago, we discussed the cognitive dissonance produced by huge salary boosts for top executives of health care companies with mise...
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Monday, May 11, 2015

RUC Off - the New England Journal Once Again Fails to Mention the Unmentionable

Last week, the influential New England Journal of Medicine published an article by Bruce Vladek entitled "Fixing Medicare's Physici...
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Thursday, May 7, 2015

Edwin Lee on the Tiger We Are Now Riding

Some insights about why the leadership of large health care organizations has gone so wrong may be found on a blog I just discovered entitle...
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WellPoint: Don't Know Much About Computer Programming; Aetna: Don't Know Much About Mathematics

Big US based health care insurance companies have not been covering themselves in glory in the last week. Aetna's Math Errors First,...
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