David Johnson of 4sight Health: 5 Things We Must Do To Improve the US Healthcare System
Move to full risk-based contracting: full-risk bundles for episodic care and capitation for population health. America won’t change the way it delivers care until it changes the way it pays for care. Predetermined prices for knee and hip transplants in California cut market prices by as much as 80%. If a provider or healthcare system is paid the same amount every month to care for a person, regardless of what treatment that person needs, that provider only makes money by keeping the patient as healthy as possible.
As a part of my interview series with leaders in healthcare, I had the pleasure to interview: David W. Johnson.
David Johnson is the CEO of 4sight Health, a boutique thought leadership company. Dave is the author of Market vs. Medicine: America’s Epic Fight for Better, Affordable Healthcare (2016) and The Customer Revolution in Healthcare: Delivering Kinder, Smarter, Affordable Care for All (2019). Dave’s expertise…