Crosswinds

2021-11

Episodes

Tuesday Nov 02, 2021

Tom Robertson, Executive Director of the Vizient Research Institute and Mark Wietecha, CEO of the Children’s Hospital Association, return to consider macroeconomic topics centered around the concept of health care in a “culture of capitalism” as Mark describes it. The discussion considers opportunities to change the financing model to enable providers to take a more holistic approach to treating children within the context of their family situations. Mark describes the longitudinal health care impacts of adverse childhood experiences, and the importance of early intervention to mitigate their effects.
 
Guest speaker:
Mark Wietecha, MS, MBA
CEO
Children’s Hospital Association
 
Moderator:
Tom Robertson
Executive Director
Vizient Research Institute
 
Show Notes:
[01:40] Health care affordability is impacted by the costs associated with investments in technological advancements that were made over the last 50 years.
[04:41] Healthcare costs can’t be carried at the social level which causes non-affordability at the individual level.
[07:15] The same exact medical service, when provided by several different sources, will yield an extremely wide variation of cost to the patient. Markets create health disparities.
[10:01] A core challenge of health care is that it was created in a culture of capitalism, which creates a competitive system.
[13:26] Under a rate-regulated model, the mindset of the provider community could shift to worrying about total cost of care.
[14:21] Large children’s hospitals in downtown areas tend to receive kids who can’t get care anywhere else
[16:04] Models need to take into account social and relational acuity, which may be far more important for children, and some adults, than medical acuity.
[17:01] In a rate-regulated world, providers will naturally go where cost is lowest in their portfolio.
[30:16] One thing we could learn from pediatric medicine is that intervention and early investment are part of a road map to thriving in life.
[35:52] In order to get closer to an accessible and affordable system, we must look at the whole person and whole community.
 
Links | Resources:
Mark Wietecha biographical information
 
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