Category: Economics

Is the Financial Toxicity of Oncology Care a Myth?

Just when you think you know something, it turns out to be wrong. My latest experience with this… Read More

By David Burda September 3, 2025

Without Immigrants, U.S. Healthcare Will Suffer: An Inconvenient Truth About U.S. Healthcare

American healthcare runs on immigrant power. One in five healthcare workers are foreign-born. The system will break without… Read More

By Allen Weiss and David W. Johnson September 2, 2025

Outcomes

Podcast: Checking the Industry’s Pulse After Epic’s AI Announcement 8/28/25

Dominant EHR vendor Epic is going all in on AI-powered tools for patients, payers and providers. We talked… Read More

By David Burda August 28, 2025

Economics

The Evidence Is Clear: Patients Shouldn’t Pay Their Increasingly Higher Medical Bills

I know someone who knows someone who works at a healthcare revenue cycle company. That someone told my… Read More

By David Burda August 13, 2025

Economics

Consumerism, Revenue Cycle and U.S. Healthcare (Multipart Series)

4sight Health CEO David W. Johnson uses this series to look at the contradictions and failures that define… Read More

By David W. Johnson August 9, 2025

Policy

4sight Friday 8/8/25

4sight Friday | For Health Systems, It’s Boomers or Bust | Middle-Brained Revenue Cycle | Docs Versus Pops… Read More

By David Burda August 8, 2025

4sight Friday 8/1/25

4sight Friday | Wither Antibiotic Stewardship? | Why We Need Emergent, Not Deliberate, Strategy | Prior Authorization Isn’t… Read More

By David Burda August 1, 2025

Outcomes

Prior Authorization Is About Payments, Not Patients

I’ve said this before, and it probably doesn’t bear repeating. But for some reason, I end up writing… Read More

By David Burda July 30, 2025

Sage, Easy-to-Digest Advice from a Great Business Builder

Scott Becker’s Building Great Businesses is less a how-to manual than a reflection on what it actually takes… Read More

By David W. Johnson July 27, 2025

Economics