Case type 22
Healthcare and pharma
Cases on medicines, hospitals, and health insurers: pricing a drug under health technology assessment, sizing hospital capacity with Little's Law, and payer and provider economics.
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Key takeaways
- Explain who pays, who provides, and who makes products in healthcare.
- In healthcare, the buyer is often not the patient, so follow the money: who pays, what they judge value on, and what limits capacity.
- Price a drug against a cost-per-QALY threshold.
- Size hospital beds with Little's Law.
- Reason about payer and provider economics.
By the end you will be able to
- Explain who pays, who provides, and who makes products in healthcare
- Price a drug against a cost-per-QALY threshold
- Size hospital beds with Little's Law
- Reason about payer and provider economics
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