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Embracing Destruction
Large employers continue to advance telemedicine and onsite workplace clinics, changes that represent potential threats to primary care physicians.
READ MORE »Hello, William Shatner
The Secretary of Health and Human Services floats an idea of having physicians help patients navigate price comparisons for their prescriptions.
READ MORE »Two Lemmata
CMS announces that premiums for the benchmark silver plans with actually go down in 2019, reversing several years of double-digit increases.
READ MORE »Two for One Sale
A new study shows that a high-touch primary care model, in a capitated setting, reduces hospitalizations and lowers overall cost.
READ MORE »Money in the Couch Cushions
The number of healthcare consumers that go online for price and quality comparison information continues to rise.
READ MORE »Bigger in Texas
Baylor, Scott and White in Dallas and Memorial Hermann in Houston have announced plans to merge, which would create yet another massive regional health system.
READ MORE »The March to $1 Trillion
Medicaid spending now approaches $600 billion a year and is projected to top $1 trillion in just another decade.
READ MORE »No Time for Brevity
A new study finds that EMRs are the major contributor to a major raise in physician burnout.
READ MORE »Passivity and Price Finding
A group of six senators float a draft bill for the first national legislation on OON surprise billing.
READ MORE »Weapons of Mass Disclosure
The failed contract negotiations between UnitedHealthcare and Envision, the giant ER staffing company, sets up a major issue come the beginning of the year.
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