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ACA Market Stabilization Push Is On But Success Is Uncertain
By STEVEN FINDLAY A critical test in Congress comes this week in year 2 of the ACA wars. Will lawmakers do the right thing? It’s up in the air—again. Congress has until this Friday at midnight to pass a budget bill to fund the government through Sept...
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Wed, Mar 21 2018 1:04 AM
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Bad Medicine: Medicaid Managed Drug Plan Rollback
By DEVON HERRICK Many states have been looking for alternatives to reimbursing Medicaid providers piecemeal on a fee-for-service (FFS) basis. Increasingly they have been moving beneficiaries into Medicaid managed care plans. Today 39 states contract with...
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Thu, Mar 22 2018 9:59 AM
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Health in 2 point 00 — Episode 12
Jessica DaMassa asks me about the AMA & digital snake oil, Israel investing in Digital Health, and the budget impact on CSRs & Obamacare in today’s edition of Health in 2 point 00 — Matthew Holt Read More...
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Mon, Mar 26 2018 1:35 PM
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The Myth That Refuses to Die: All Health Care is Local
By PAUL KECKLEY In 1980, industry healthcare planners imagined a system where the centerpiece was a hospital in every community and a complement of physicians. Demand forecasting was fairly straightforward: based on the population’s growth and age, the...
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Wed, Mar 28 2018 4:05 PM
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MyFitnessPal and the State of Data Privacy in America
By JASON CHUNG This week MyFitnessPal announced that it had suffered a massive security breach which exposed or compromised 150 million MyFitnessPal accounts. Data that is affected included usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords. Luckily for...
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Fri, Mar 30 2018 5:06 PM
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Can Amazon, Chase, and Berkshire Help Medical Malpractice Victims?
By MINDY NUNEZ DUFFOURC A New Era of Amazon Healthcare Should Take a Cue From Germany to Provide Support for Medical Malpractice Victims Amazon, JP Morgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway recently announced plans to form a joint non-profit enterprise aimed...
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Tue, Apr 03 2018 12:00 AM
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We Should Use Both Medicare Advantage for All and Medicaid As A Package to Cover Everyone And We Should Do It Now
BY GEORGE HALVORSON A growing number of people want to set aside all of our current health care financing approaches as a country and set up Medicare For All as a Canadian like single payer system to cover every American and pay for our care. When we...
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Fri, Apr 06 2018 12:56 PM
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Another Myth that Refuses to Die: As Medicare Goes, So Goes the Nation
By PAUL KECKLEY Medicare is a big deal in U.S. healthcare: no doubt. It’s the $683 billion federal program that provides insurance coverage to 59 million Americans, up 3 million from 2015. It covers 16% of the population and accounts for 20% of total...
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Wed, Apr 11 2018 2:20 PM
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The Tapeworms are Hungry for Direct Primary Care
By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD When Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan (AmBerGan) announced their healthcare partnership, Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett declared “the ballooning costs of healthcare act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy.” He...
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Fri, Apr 13 2018 8:13 AM
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Vineti raises $33m, Amy DuRoss interview
By MATTHEW HOLT Any DuRoss is one of the more charming and remarkable characters in the health tech world. She lead the campaign for Proposition 71 in 2004 which funded and established the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Later on she was...
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Mon, Apr 16 2018 12:51 AM
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WTF Health | Uber Health’s Head of Strategy, Lauren Steingold
By JESSICA DAMASSA WTF Health – ‘What’s the Future’ Health? is a new interview series about the future of health and how we love to hate WTF is wrong with it right now. Can’t get enough? Check out more interviews at www.wtf...
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Tue, Apr 17 2018 4:22 PM
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Health in 2 point 00, Episode 18
Jessica DaMassa asks me all about health & technology, in just 2 minutes, featuring venture rounds for Kyruus, Parsley Health, Livongo buying RetroFit, the RWJF AI challenge from Catalyst @ Health 2.0 and a ridiculously long explanation of where the...
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Thu, Apr 19 2018 8:02 PM
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Consider this Speculative Scenario on WMT-HUM
By TORY WOLFF WMT is in talks with HUM about a relationship enhancement, possibly an acquisition. The two already know how to work together in alliances (narrow pharmacy network, marketing collaborations, points programs). If a new structure is needed...
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Tue, Apr 24 2018 12:03 AM
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Interview with Brian Yarnell, Bluestream Health
As you may have noticed, we are picking up the focus on new tech companies here on THCB. Much of this is happening as I have a little more time to examine and work with startups as I’m no longer running the Health 2.0 conference day to day. Some...
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Thu, Apr 26 2018 9:26 PM
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Not Actually Fake News
BY MICHAEL MILLENSON Trump appointees cheered by both Republicans and Democrats. Venture capitalists venting about too much investment cash. Data nerds decrying the deification of artificial intelligence. For two days, Health Datapalooza 2018 offered...
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Wed, May 02 2018 10:59 AM
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