Healthcare Economic Reform () von Ellis M. Knight

MODULE 1                                                                                                         

• Introduction: The Basic Sciences
• Chapter 1  Definitions and Core Principles
• Chapter 2  The Unique Aspects of the Healthcare Economy
• Chapter 3  Business Models in Healthcare
• Chapter 4  The Payment System

MODULE 2

• Introduction: Pathophysiology
• Chapter 1  Distortions in the Process of Exchange
• Chapter 2  Invalid Assumptions About the Distorted Exchange Process
• Chapter 3  The Perverse Nature of the FFS Model
• Chapter 4  Clinically Integrated Networks
• Chapter 5  Shifting Risk
• Chapter 6  Waste
• Chapter 7  Pricing in the Healthcare Economy
• Chapter 8  Health "Insurance"
• Chapter 9  Market Forces in the Healthcare Economy
• Chapter 10  For-Profit vs. Not-for-Profit
• Chapter 11  Physician Employment
• Chapter 12  Monopolies
• Chapter 13  Inequality

MODULE 3 

• Introduction: Therapeutics
• Chapter 1  From Volume to Value
• Chapter 2  Bundled Payments
• Chapter 3  Accountable Care Organizations
• Chapter 4  Correcting Defects in the Healthcare Economy Revealed by the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Chapter 5  Cost Accounting
• Chapter 6  Care Process Design

MODULE 4

• Introduction: Clinical Practice
• Chapter 1   General Activities
• Chapter 2  Specific Recommended Actions

EPILOGUE