Category: Policy

2020: A Year Like No Other – Insights, Comments and Interviews

At the beginning of 2020, US healthcare showed every sign of continuing 2019’s wave of growth and consolidation…. Read More

By Steven Alcauskas and David W. Johnson February 4, 2021

COVID-19

Becoming One Nation Against COVID-19

COVID-19 is now the nation’s leading cause of death. [1] Hospitals and healthcare workers are stretched to and… Read More

By David W. Johnson February 3, 2021

Policy

4sight Friday | Taking Bets on Healthcare 2021 | Healthcare Fraud Fight Falters | Adding Up Medicaid Managed Care

Read 1/29/2021 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Columns here. Find 4sight Health… Read More

By David Burda January 29, 2021

Policy

Want to Stop the Steal? Start with Healthcare Fraud

When I was working as a reporter full time, I made sure I did the following three things… Read More

By David Burda January 26, 2021

Policy

4sight Friday | Biden’s Healthcare Dilemma | Unbridled Medicare Advantage Spending | At the Intersection of Food Insecurity and Obesity

Read 1/22/2021 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Columns here. Find 4sight Health… Read More

By David Burda January 22, 2021

Policy

Podcast: 4sight Friday Roundup, Rating and Ranking the Biden Administration’s Healthcare Priorities, 1/22/21

Rating and Ranking the Biden Administration’s Healthcare Priorities Conquering COVID and reforming the healthcare system to make it… Read More

By David Burda January 22, 2021

Economics

Medicare Advantage Keeps Biting the Hand that Feeds It

When CMS released its latest national healthcare spending figures last month, they barely caused a ripple in our… Read More

By David Burda January 20, 2021

COVID-19

What Do You See in Medicaid Managed-Care Enrollment Figures?

We’re all speculating, predicting and forecasting what the post-pandemic healthcare system in the U.S. will look like in… Read More

By David Burda January 19, 2021

Outcomes

Looking for Unconscious Bias in Healthcare? Just Ask Your Customers

When a business is struggling, one of the first things a smart business will do is ask its… Read More

By David Burda January 14, 2021

Policy