What merger mania means for health care
CNN Money- by Paul R. La Monica- March 8, 2018: 12:32 PM ET Get ready for another wave of massive health care deals -- and maybe this time the government will approve…
Trump plan: Less health insurance for lower premiums
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Feb 20, 2018, 4:49 PM ET The Trump administration Tuesday spelled out a plan to lower the cost of health insurance: give consumers…
Privacy on keyboard
The Future of Healthcare Could Be a Privacy Nightmare
TONIC - Susan Rinkunas -Feb 8 2018, 10:54am The Amazon healthcare effort and CVS-Aetna merger raise lots of questions. Last Tuesday, Amazon, JP Morgan, and Berkshire Hathaway announced that they…
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Team Up to Try to Disrupt Health Care
NY Times- By NICK WINGFIELD, KATIE THOMAS and REED ABELSON JAN. 30, 2018 SEATTLE — Three corporate behemoths — Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase — announced on Tuesday that they…
When your insurer denies a valid claim because of ‘lack of medical necessity’
Los Angeles Times- By DAVID LAZARUS -JAN 23, 2018 | 3:00 AM We learned last week that roughly 3.2 million more Americans were uninsured in 2017 — hard data attesting to…
This Company’s AI-Fueled Tech Is About to Bring Digital Health Care to Millions
FORTUNE- By SY MUKHERJEE 7:00 AM EST - JANUARY 17,2018 Digital health firm HealthTap and Bupa, a health care provider that offers both insurance and medical services to millions around the…
CVS-Aetna deserves chance to disrupt health-care system
THE HILL : BY DR. ROGER KLEIN, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 01/10/18 07:00 PM EST -THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL On…
Tax on medical devices to resume after 2-year suspension
CNBC via AP- JANUARY 1ST, 2018 While much of corporate America will enjoy a tax cut in the new year, one industry is getting a tax increase it has fought…
How the New U.S. Tax Plan Will Affect Health Care
Harvard Business Review: David Blumenthal- December 19, 2017 The new Republican tax bill, which the House passed this afternoon and the Senate is expected to approve tonight, is complex, but what…
UnitedHealth Buys Large Doctors Group as Lines Blur in Health Care
NY Times - By REED ABELSON DEC. 6, 2017 In another example of the blurring boundaries in the health care industry, UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation’s largest insurers, said on…
