The real reason the highest-paid doctors are in the Dakotas washingtonpost.com/business/2023/…

At what point does a hospital board of directors decide to do its job and stop predatory pricing and debt collection policies? Asking for communities who lost a seat at the table a long time ago. Atrium Health board is derelict. Noam Levey Barak Richman kffhealthnews.org/news/article/n…

Hospital associations create “charities” so Medicaid dollars can be moved from safety net hospitals to those that serve fewer Medicaid patients. kffhealthnews.org/news/article/f…

“It’s a teardown.”

Huh? @NYTimes nytimes.com/2023/08/26/wor…

So well deserved! #DiagnosisDebt wins ⁦Gerald Loeb Awards⁩ Noam Levey⁩ ⁦KFF Health News⁩ ⁦AnnaWerner⁩ @cbs. NPR May the 100 mill Americans suffering medical debt be cured of the this disease.

After Shunning Scientist, University of Pennsylvania Celebrates Her Nobel Prize wsj.com/health/after-s…

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.” #NobelPrize

In the city to throw out the first pitch at the Philadelphia Phillies game tonite! Had to stop by Mitchell & Ness to get some vintage gear! Let’s goooo Phils!!!

Any & all value-based contracts going up in smoke. Any & all provider directories misleading enrollees. Farzad Mostashari

The state of Massachusetts did MGB a favor by demanding an improvement plan to rein in spending. More states should follow. healthcaredive.com/news/mass-gene…

You just can't make this stuff up. Two North Carolina mega "non-profit" hospital systems refuse to forgive patient debts. Claim it conflicts with their charity care policies and will discourage patients from enrolling in #Medicaid. northcarolinahealthnews.org/2023/12/11/cha…

Business as usual in US healthcare.

1. Perhaps nowhere are the stakes of FTC’s work higher than in healthcare markets. My remarks to AMA noted just some of the ways that policy choices about how to structure markets affect patients and healthcare workers: ftc.gov/news-events/ne…

Excited to share the great work of my friends & colleagues Michael L. Barnett & Matt Press tomorrow with the Senate Finance Committee. 10AM ET Tomorrow - Come check it out! finance.senate.gov/hearings/bolst…

Businesses are upset about the FTC's ban on noncompete clauses not because they will lose trade secrets or valuable employees, Betsey Stevenson says, but because they just lost bargaining power to workers trib.al/vtnnMDi via Bloomberg Opinion

Mission HCA got $106 million in Medicaid SDPs in 2023. They are free to spend it all outside NC and likely will. NC legislature voted this $2.6 bill giveaway to NC hospitals cause feds paid 72%. Mark Miller

Is #MedTwitter still a thing? Reading #CON applications showed me how much physician-led innovation gets denied.