4sight Health’s Top Performers of 2024

4sight Health’s Top Commentaries

The forces impacting healthcare were in full force in 2024, starting with reports on ACA enrollment and the hangover of General Catalyst. Telemedicine gave way to artificial intelligence in all the headlines, mixed with news on prior authorization and price transparency. While the U.S. Presidential Election took over the news, many 4sight Health contributors brought ideas to the spotlight, adding perspectives on the future of Medicare, maternity health and healthcare’s broken model. By midyear, retail primary care had flown and flopped, and America was having a new conversation about healthcare coverage due to tragic circumstances.

Catch up on anything you missed in 2024, including these top performers.

Reading Between the Lines: Year-End Healthcare Merger and Acquisition Reports

By David Burda

4sight Health News Editor Burda lays out the most interesting factoids he can find to illustrate the healthcare merger landscape. More.

What Will Happen to Traditional Medicare?

By Ken Terry

The future of Medicare was on a lot of people’s minds in 2024, including 4sight Health contributor Ken Terry, whose predictions on the rapid growth of Medicare Advantage plans made the top 10 4sight Health commentaries of the year. More.

The Primary Care Prescription (Part 1): Putting Patients and Physicians First

By Michael D. Connelly and Richard Afable

This two-part series on Primary Care caught a lot of attention. In Part 1, authors Michael D. Connelly and Richard Afable spell out the failed attempts at reform in the U.S. healthcare system. Part 2 focuses on the decimation of primary care. More.

Mothers Are Suffering, and Healthcare Leaders Are Critical to the Solution

By Ann Somers Hogg

Maternal health in the U.S. is poor and declining, we all know this, but 4sight Health contributor Ann Somers Hogg says the power healthcare leaders have to improve it might be surprising. More.

Getting Retail Primary Care Right: 5 Ways to Fix a Broken Model

By Bryan Becker

In order for care models to work, they have to care. Get 4sight Health contributor Bryan Becker’s point-of-view as a care provider and healthcare leader on the ups and downs of retail primary care. More.

Your First Choice Is Your Most Important Choice

By Allen Weiss

Choose wisely — 4sight Health’s Allen Weiss says healthcare has a couple of ways it can get better. For one, it needs to focus on quality rather than marketing to help everyone live longer, happier lives. More.

RFK Jr. Promises to ‘Get America Healthy Again’—and Maybe It’s Possible

By David Johnson for HFMA

Here’s one thing we know: Minor adjustments aren’t going to change healthcare. 4sight Health’s David W. Johnson argues that only bold, transformative reforms to the healthcare and food systems can curb the nation’s spiraling health crisis.  More.

How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think: 10 Questions with Mark Engelen

By David Burda

Big thinker Mark Engelen wants to get patients meeting with pharmacists individually or as part of a care team, a gap in patient care he thinks he can fill with vertical integration and technology. Read his original interview and the catch up.

Social Media’s Assassination of Brian Thompson

By David W. Johnson

Americans’ anger with the healthcare system is boiling over, said 4sight Health CEO David W. Johnson, in response to the death of healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Now’s the time to stop talking about value and finally make it happen. More.

Look out next week for the “2024: Top Podcasts of the Year” list to round out our year-end favorites!