Sg2 Letter: Making Better Decisions
By Bill WoodsonMaking decisions is what management is all about. The higher you rise in an organization, the tougher the decisions get—the stakes are higher, there are fewer obvious choices and it’s...
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Making decisions is what management is all about. The higher you rise in an organization, the tougher the decisions get—the stakes are higher, there are fewer obvious choices and it’s...
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No topic has generated more questions for Sg2 this fall than CMS’s proposed Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CCJR) Model. This bold initiative will make bundled payment for joint replacement...
Rumors and announcements of health plan mergers and acquisitions have only accelerated discussions among health system executives about how much more provider consolidation is likely to occur over the next...
During Sg2’s 2015 Executive Summit meetings, we have been asking health care executives to provide some perspective on how their organizations make decisions today. We ask attendees to rate, on...
There it was on the front page: a Chicago Tribune article titled “Hospital Poll Finds It May Pay to Shop” that basically highlighted the variation in prices health care providers...
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