Category: Policy

Uncomfortably Numb to Patient Harm

I’d like to think that I have pretty decent search skills as a reporter. I usually can find… Read More

By David Burda May 25, 2022

Podcast: Bailing Out Hospitals and Health Systems 5/20/22

Podcast: Bailing Out Hospitals and Health Systems 5/20/22 Hospitals and health systems say that they’re in a “precarious… Read More

By David Burda May 20, 2022

Policy

4sight Friday | Retooling Future Clinicians | Capitalism and Healthcare | Hospital and Health System Bailouts

Read 5/20/2022 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Columns here. Find 4sight Health… Read More

By David Burda May 20, 2022

Just Not That Into You (Price Transparency Rule)

By now, we all know that hospitals’ level of compliance with the new price transparency rule would not… Read More

By David Burda May 18, 2022

Policy

Capitalism, Perversions, and Health Utilities

The collision of capitalism, healthcare, and a government payment system has produced perversions in the healthcare system that… Read More

By Kerry Weems May 17, 2022

Outcomes

Podcast: Lucky and Unlucky Numbers for Healthcare 5/13/22

Lucky and Unlucky Numbers for Healthcare ACA enrollment is up but so are firearm homicides, COVID deaths and… Read More

By David Burda May 13, 2022

Policy

Hospital + Doctors = Higher Prices

I told you. Beware the vertically integrated employed physician. Maybe now you’ll believe me. A new study in Health… Read More

By David Burda May 11, 2022

Outcomes

Podcast: 4sight Friday Roundup, How Overturning Roe V. Wade Could Affect Healthcare Incumbents and New Market Entrants 5/6/22

How Overturning Roe V. Wade Could Affect Healthcare Incumbents and New Market Entrants The leaked U.S. Supreme Court… Read More

By David Burda May 6, 2022

Policy

Separate And Unequal (Part 1): Healthcare’s Profound Maldistribution of Facilities

Ready. Set. Stumble. As part of its announcement of payment guidelines for FY 2023, the Centers for Medicare… Read More

By David W. Johnson April 28, 2022

Policy