Czech Republic possesses potential for health reform
When the Academy for International Health Studies traveled to Prague in April for its annual trade/study mission, little did the delegates know they were about to enter a healthcare war zone. Weeks in advance of a contentious national election, the country's prime minister recently had fired the minister of health and named a successor with a mandate to implement some quick fixes. Insurers managed their strained cash flows by slowing payments to providers while the new minister, seemingly arbitrarily, mandated price reductions. The result was a physician-organized strike and thousands of angry, untreated patients.
In this episode of the "Meet the Board" podcast series, Briana Contreras, Managed Healthcare Executive editor, speaks with Ateev Mehrotra, a member of the MHE editorial advisory board and a professor of healthcare policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School. Mehtrotra is also a hospitalist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. In the discussion, Contreras gets to know Mehrotra more on a personal level and picks his brain on some of his research interests including telehealth, alternative payment models and price transparency.
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