About the Foundation
The Jayne Koskinas Ted Giovanis Foundation for Health and Policy – JKTG – aims to change health care for the better. Funding innovative medical research, data analysis, events, and other projects, JKTG serves as an honest, independent broker of ideas and actions designed to advance both health care and health policy.
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Ted’s Take: Ted’s Take: Coalescing or Convergent Thinking
I’d like to introduce the concept that coalescing or “convergent thinking” may be detrimental within an organizational setting. By this, I mean that individuals working in the same or similar space often tend to think similar thoughts.
Ted’s Take: We all have a role to play in climate change research
One would think that research about climate issue is one area that people would come together and commit to doing it right – collaboratively, transparently and without ego.
Why aren’t we talking about this? Key questions raised by the Medicare Trustees Report
The Medicare Trust Fund (TF) Annual Trustees report on solvency drives much of the discussion about Medicare payments. Therefore, it’s important and appropriate to understand the underpinnings of the report in order to best understand and engage in the discussion.
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Vision & Approach
As a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) operating foundation, the JKTG Foundation has a simple but ambitious mission – make health care better.
Its work is rooted in an equally simple questions: Why are things done a certain way? How are patients impacted? What can be done differently to make things better or more efficient? This relentless curiosity drives every aspect of what the Foundation does.
It discretely funds science, scientists/researchers, and projects; it does not fund laboratories.
This approach – unique selection and support of unbiased research – differs from other grant-making foundations.
Operationally, JKTG identifies subject areas in which it has an interest, with which it wishes to be involved, and which it believes great impact could be made.
JKTG then identifies researchers or scientists in the applicable field possessing demonstrated capabilities and then, collaboratively, considers appropriate projects.
As a result, JKTG generally selects the scientists/researchers before a project is defined. This approach allows JKTG to understand specifically what a project did or did not demonstrate.
Vision & Approach
As a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) operating foundation, the JKTG Foundation has a simple but ambitious mission – make health care better.
Its work is rooted in an equally simple questions: Why are things done a certain way? How are patients impacted? What can be done differently to make things better or more efficient? This relentless curiosity drives every aspect of what the Foundation does.
It discretely funds science, scientists/researchers, and projects; it does not fund laboratories.
This approach – unique selection and support of unbiased research – differs from other grant-making foundations.
Operationally, JKTG identifies subject areas in which it has an interest, with which it wishes to be involved, and which it believes great impact could be made.
JKTG then identifies researchers or scientists in the applicable field possessing demonstrated capabilities and then, collaboratively, considers appropriate projects.
As a result, JKTG generally selects the scientists/researchers before a project is defined. This approach allows JKTG to understand specifically what a project did or did not demonstrate.
Ted Giovanis the author
Beyond Fear: How I Fought the Feds for Six Years―and Won
In this gripping story, JKTG Founder Ted Giovanis provides a front-row seat for how he ― a self-employed healthcare finance and regulatory consultant ― overcame extraordinarily long odds in his battle with the federal government, culminating in one of the largest court settlements in the history of Medicare.
Jayne Koskinas Ted Giovanis
Foundation for Health and Policy
PO Box 130
Highland, Maryland 20777
Media contact: 202.548.0133