Blogs from the NYU Wagner Community

Category: Health Care Delivery

    • 02/28/2013
      What’s Going On With Health Care Costs?
      Posted by Joel Wittman Egads!  Is it truly possible?  Has the increase in health care costs been at its lowest in almost four decades?  And this in spite of the Baby Boomer generation fast approaching retirement age?  What could account for such a phenomenon and is it sustainable?  All relevant questions that have health care experts scratching their heads in search of answers and have politicians scrambling to enact programs to further the slow down in the increase in health care costs.
      – Wagner Health Policy and Management Program Blog
    • 02/04/2013
      Do Health Care and Profits Mix?
      Posted by: Joel Wittman  The debate continues: can a social service such as health care operate in a profit-generating mode?  Undoubtedly, there are fierce opinions on both the pro and con aspects of this question.
      – Wagner Health Policy and Management Program Blog
    • 01/23/2013
      Hospital Pay-for-Performance [P4P] for NYC’s Public Hospitals
      Posted by: Jan Blustein According to a recent press release New York City’s public hospitals will begin to pay its MDs for meeting targets relating to health care quality and efficiency.  The targets are quite varied, and include enhanced coordination of care, reductions in readmissions, decreases in ER wait times, and reductions in length-of-stay.
      – Wagner Health Policy and Management Program Blog
    • 11/26/2012
      The Drivers of Health Care Costs
      Posted by Joel Wittman With health care costs continuing to comprise a huge portion of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, efforts are ever-continuing to identify the drivers of these costs and, ultimately, devise methods to slow or decrease health care expenses.
      – Wagner Health Policy and Management Program Blog