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Why the Potential CVS Acquisition of Aetna is Brilliant, The Law of Unintended Consequences
By FRED GOLDSTEIN Many people have been surprised by the announcement that CVS is interested in purchasing Aetna. Why would a PBM want to own a health plan? There has been speculation that the move by Amazon to get into the pharmacy space may be a reason...
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Mon, Oct 30 2017 1:33 PM
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Why Competition In the Politics Industry Is Failing America
By DANNY STERN Year after year, Congress fails to reach consensus on important issues, the electorate screams for change, and voters become more polarized along party lines and ideology. These struggles aren’t causes of America’s political malaise, says...
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Mon, Oct 02 2017 10:11 AM
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Michael Porter
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Danny Stern
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Harvard Business School
AARP Caregiver Quality of Life Challenge Winners Announced!
By CHELSEA POLANIECKI Roughly one out of every three people in the United States serves as a caregiver for a chronically ill, disabled, or aging loved one at some point in their life*. Not only do most caregivers dedicate a significant amount of time...
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Wed, Oct 04 2017 8:41 AM
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The Three Things Keeping Hospital CEOs Up Late at Night (Hint: Donald Trump Isn’t One of Them)
By PAUL KECKLEY The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation released a Request for Information (RFI) last week– “New Direction for the CMS Innovation Center.” It’s the latest chapter in the unfolding policy framework that will govern the health...
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Mon, Oct 09 2017 1:25 PM
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Paul Keckley
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Valuing Value-Based Payment
By ANISH KOKA, MD The idea that payment should be linked to the value lies at the heart of most of the transactions we participate in on a daily basis. Yet, value based payment in healthcare has seemingly run into very rocky waters as of late. It is at...
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Mon, Oct 16 2017 7:51 AM
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Do Doctors Deserve Mercy?
By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD This past week a video went viral when a woman complained about the lengthy wait time at a clinic. On video, we see the physician asks if the patient still wants to be seen. The patient declines to be seen, yet complains patients...
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Thu, Oct 19 2017 1:09 PM
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Niran Al-Agba
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Gallogly
I Refuse to Tell You What to Eat
By MICHEL ACCAD, MD A recent tweet from JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association, urged me andother doctors to “include nutrition counseling into the flow of [our] daily practice.” Along with the tweet came a link to an article that outlines...
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Tue, Oct 24 2017 9:12 AM
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The Future Will Be Blogcast
By THCBist #The Four Things Keeping Hospital CEOs Awake at Night This Year (Hint: Donald Trump Isn’t One of Them) #Valuing Value-Based Payment # I Refuse to Tell You What to Eat # Price Transparency Tools Are Still Struggling. We Offer Advice # EHR-Driven...
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Wed, Oct 25 2017 11:04 PM
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Is Obamacare Dead?
By STEVE FINDLAY “It’s dead. It’s gone. There’s no such thing as Obamacare anymore. It’s no longer – you shouldn’t even mention.” — President Donald J. Trump October 17, 2017 Not so fast, President Great-Again. First off, this is an obviously and...
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Fri, Oct 27 2017 8:40 AM
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Bringing Behaviorial Health Into Primary Care Settings
BY MARTHA WHITECOTTON SPONSORED POST The integration of behavioral health into the primary care setting has resulted in a number of benefits. Traditionally, behavioral health and medical health operated separately, but in recent years, the integration...
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Mon, Oct 02 2017 9:59 AM
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I’m 35 Years Old And I’m Realizing My Life May Be About to End. And I’m Panicking, Just a Little.
By SCOTT RIDDLE It’s been a while since I put a piece of writing in the public domain, but suddenly I have a lot to get off my chest, well my colon actually. Just three weeks ago life was good. Correction. It was awesome. The newest edition to our family...
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Wed, Oct 04 2017 10:15 AM
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Cancer
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Scott Riddle
Moving the Needle to Diversify Health Tech
By SABAH PERVEZ AND ALYX STERNLICHT There is a dire need for the health tech workforce to keep pace with the changing racial makeup of the nation. According to the Pew Research Center study, from 1960 to 2010, the percentages of Americans identifying...
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Thu, Oct 12 2017 11:15 AM
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EHR-Driven Medical Error: The Unknown and the Unknowable
BY ROSS KOPPEL Politico’s Arthur Allen has written a useful report on recent findings about EHR-related errors. We must keep in mind, however, that almost all EHR-related errors are unknown, and often unknowable. Why? The most common errors involved with...
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Tue, Oct 17 2017 4:49 PM
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MedPAC Sinks Deeper Into the MACRA Tar Pit
By KIP SULLIVAN, JD The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has done it again. At their October 4, 2017 meeting they agreed to repeal the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), an insanely complex and evidence-free pay-for-performance...
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Fri, Oct 20 2017 11:01 AM
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ACOs: An Act of Faith, Theory, Hope, or Evidence? What Do the Data Say?
By ROSS KOPPEL and STEVE SOUMERAI The recent Health Affairs Blog piece by Chernew and Barbey (October 17, 2017) provides a helpful theoretical summary of the various ways ACOs might achieve savings—even if modest or still latent. But their analysis of...
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Wed, Oct 25 2017 10:03 AM
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