Fear Not, MHT Partners’ Krause Tells Health Care Investors
Despite the "tremendous strain" on health care resources due to the COVID-19 pandemic, MHT Partners' Patrick Krause says signs point [...]
Webinar to Highlight AMGA’s Efforts to Reduce Low-Value Care
An upcoming webinar is set to outline how AMGA is working to reduce low-value care, a problem which it says [...]
Report: Conferences Move Forward with Plans Despite Coronavirus Concerns
While HIMSS chose to cancel its major health IT conference amid concerns over the coronavirus, other conferences are keeping their [...]
Survey Offers Insight into How Health Economists Would Change Health Policy
A survey presented last year during the American Society of Health Economists conference offers insight into what kind of health [...]
Total Health Spending Reached $3.1 Trillion Between 1996-2016, Study Suggests
Total health care spending rose from roughly $1.4 trillion in 1996 to about $3.1 trillion in 2016, a recent study [...]
Blog Post Highlights Tool for Tracking Low-Value Care Spending
A recent PhRMA blog post highlights a new web-based tool by the Research Consortium for Health Care Value Assessment that [...]
Social Determinants of Health: When Health Care is More Than Just Medicine
CMS projects that national health spending in the United States (US) will reach almost $6 trillion by 2027. Can a focus on social risk improve health and moderate skyrocketing costs?
PhRMA: HCCI Report ‘Overestimates Medicine Spending and Pricing’
The Health Care Cost Institute's (HCCI) recent report on health spending "overestimates medicine spending and pricing and mischaracterizes the true [...]
Blog Post: Making the Most of Our Health Care Dollars
A recent blog post on Going Below the Surface highlights a panel discussion during AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference that [...]
3M Announces Webinar Series for Health Plans
3M this week announced a new webinar series developed specifically for health care plans. The first webinar in the series, [...]
Lown Institute’s Saini, Brownlee Talk Shkreli Awards
Lown Institute's Vikas Saini, president, and Shannon Brownlee, senior vice president, discuss the latest Shkreli Awards winners on the Relentless [...]
Rosenthal Blasts Health System, Policymakers on Surprise Bills
Journalist and physician Elisabeth Rosenthal in a recent opinion piece published on the New York Times criticizes the health care [...]
AMCP CEO Cantrell Talks Health Care in 2020
Susan Cantrell, CEO of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy, in a recent blog post outlines a number of key [...]
Beyond Burnout: Docs Decry ‘Moral Injury’ From Financial Pressures of Health Care
Via Kaiser Health News Dr. Keith Corl was working in a Las Vegas emergency room when a patient arrived with [...]
Thought Leaders Discuss Areas of Promise in Health Care
Seven health care thought leaders share what they feel are the areas of promise in the health care industry on [...]
NPC’s Leonard Outlines ‘Wish List’ for Health Sector
National Pharmaceutical Council President and CEO Dan Leonard in an article published on Chain Drug Review outlines his wish list [...]
Epic Chief Urges Hospital CEOs Oppose Proposal
Epic CEO Judy Faulkner in an email sent to hospital CEOs and presidents urged recipients to rally behind the medical [...]
CVS Releases Health Trends Report for 2020
CVS Health this week released its "Health Trends 2020" report which identifies six key trends in the health care industry, [...]
American College of Physicians Backs Medicare for All
The nation's second-largest doctors group, the American College of Physicians (ACP), is officially endorsing Medicare for All and a public [...]
Trump Blasts HHS Secretary Over New Polling Data
President Donald Trump last week put HHS Secretary Alex Azar on blast last week after new polling data showed voters [...]
Webinar Spotlights Low-Value Care
A Jan. 15 webinar hosted by the Going Below the Surface Forum, in partnership with AcademyHealth and the National Pharmaceutical [...]
Gorenstein’s New Podcast Explores Health System
A new podcast produced by veteran health care journalist Dan Gorenstein, Tradeoffs, explores an "often counterintuitive health care system." According [...]
KHN: Sanders Claim on Profits in Health Industry Checks Out
Sen. Bernie Sanders during the recent Democratic debate said "Medicare for All" has the power to "end the $100 billion [...]
Kellogg’s Garthwaite Outlines Key Hurdles to Medicare for All
Kellogg School of Management's Craig Garthwaite and colleagues in a recent paper outlined some key challenges to Medicare for All, [...]
Concerto HealthAI Announces Funding, Partnerships at J.P. Morgan Conference
Concerto HealthAI during the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference announced it had secured $150 million in a new round of funding [...]