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Burda on Healthcare: Forgetting — Or Ignoring — An Important Patient Safety Anniversary
Last month marked an important healthcare anniversary. It was the 25th anniversary of To Err Is Human: Building… Read More
By December 17, 2024
Outcomes
From Benefit to Business: Did Medicare Privatization Lead to Murder?
The brazen assassination of healthcare insurance executive Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, has everyone commenting on the deeper… Read More
By December 11, 2024
System Dynamics
AMA Says Insurers Are Using Their Market Power to Screw Patients and Providers
When I started this Healthcare Blame Game series I didn’t think the rounds would pop up on a… Read More
By November 27, 2024
Economics
AMA Draws Blood With Policy on Hospital Tax Exemptions
There are certain lines you don’t cross, even when you point the finger at another healthcare industry sector… Read More
By November 20, 2024
Policy
When Nearly 125,000 Hospital Infections Is Good News
Later this month, we’ll mark the 25th anniversary of the publication of To Err Is Human: Building a… Read More
By November 13, 2024
Policy
Podcast: Where Are We Going With Medicaid? 11/7/24
Medicaid is 51 times more complicated than Medicare. We talked about the program and where it’s headed, based… Read More
By November 7, 2024
Outcomes
Patients Shrug at Prior Authorization
You should know by now that hospitals and doctors hate prior authorization (PA) requirements by health plans. Providers… Read More
By October 30, 2024
Policy
It’s Time to Take People Out of the Interoperability Equation
Earlier this month, Micky Tripathi, Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology… Read More
By October 23, 2024
Policy
Podcast: Should We or Should We Not Tax Not-for-Profit Hospitals? 10/17/24
Should we tax not-for-profit hospitals? That was the question we discussed on the new episode of the 4sight… Read More
By October 17, 2024
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