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December
20
The Weekly Gist: The Year of Blessings Edition
by Chas Roades and Lisa Bielamowicz MD
The fate of the Affordable Care Act hangs in the balance as an appeals court strikes down the individual mandate but returns the rest of the law to a lower court to be evaluated. Meanwhile, positive news for industry groups in the year-end budget deal.
Reading time: 10 minutes
November
15
The Weekly Gist: The Open to the Public Edition
by Chas Roades and Lisa Bielamowicz MD
A major new regulation will force hospitals to disclose the secretly negotiated prices they charge insurers for their services, and reports emerge of a sweeping partnership between Google and a giant health system to collect and analyze personal health data.
Reading time: 10 minutes
January
04
The Weekly Gist: 2019 Special Edition
by Chas Roades and Lisa Bielamowicz MD
We look at the trends that shaped healthcare in the year gone by, and share our thoughts on what to watch for in 2019 and beyond.
Reading time: 15 minutes
June
29
The Weekly Gist: The Dog Days of Summer Edition
by Chas Roades and Lisa Bielamowicz MD
Amazon takes the pharmacy plunge, the AHA belly-flops on interoperability, and the courts put the chill on Kentucky’s Medicaid expansion. Also, a look at the value of scale in healthcare, and new analysis of end-of-life spending casts doubt on conventional wisdom.
Reading time: 15 minutes
May
11
The Weekly Gist: The Murmurs and Reckonings Edition
by Chas Roades and Lisa Bielamowicz MD
We read the tea leaves from remarks made by Alex Azar and Seema Verma about the future direction of health reform efforts and provide our own list of levers to reduce the cost of care. Also: data on the unsustainable burden of high-deductible plans, and the unusual prospect of genomic sequencing for all.
Reading time: 12 minutes
Tags: ACOs, Alex Azar, CMMI, cost of care, drug costs, freestanding EDs, genomics, high deductibles, HLTH, Medicare, R.E.M., Seema Verma