$$ Please write a one$-$page executive summary addressing the Boston Children$$s Hospital Case.

$$ Read the Harvard Business Review article by Kaplan and Porter $(2011)$ titled: $$How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care$($posted on Brightspace, under $$Articles and Papers$).$ You will find it useful in addressing and discussing the case.

$$ Describe the main issues faced by the Boston Children$$s Hospital, offer changes and solutions, and your main takeaways from the case.

$$ Your executive summary can be in bullet point style.

$$ Please have a copy of your executive summary available for our class discussion of the case.

Consider and incorporate the following questions in your executive summary and class discussion.

$1.$ How the topics and issues we learn in class are relevant to Boston Children$$s Hospital and the health$-$care industry.

$2.$ What are the costing challenges at Boston Children$$s Hospital?

$3.$ What are the costing challenges at the health care industry?

$4.$ What are some of the costing and pricing characteristics particular to the health$-$care industry?

$5.$ What is the current cost system at BCH$?$

$6.$ What$$s wrong with its current cost system?