Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page › Last page Last Gist Weekly: May 31, 2024 Ozempic trial shows the drug slows kidney disease progression, a blood-based colorectal cancer test is endorsed for FDA approval, and nursing home trade groups sue over the new staffing mandate. Blog Medicare Physician Payment Not Keeping Up Following the US Senate Finance Committee’s recent white paper on Medicare physician payment reform, the graphic shows how Medicare payments to physicians have not kept pace with inflation. Infographic Preparing for Medicare Advantage’s Make-or-Break Moment In recent years, the Medicare Advantage (MA) program enjoyed both rapid membership growth and positive attention from healthcare organizations and advocates. As of the beginning of 2024, 33.4 million Americans were enrolled in MA, up 7% from 2023. Article Walmart’s Primary Care Failure Is Important and a Problem Walmart’s failure as a healthcare provider points to some big problems in U.S. healthcare, including a difficult business model, an unfriendly reimbursement model, and a basic healthcare expense-to-revenue problem. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman A Different Way of Thinking About Hospital Closures The many forces driving some hospitals to financial distress make it impossible to maintain the status quo. Leaders can move beyond a binary close-or-don’t-close decision to reconsider what it means to deliver healthcare in communities that struggle to support a hospital. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Third Time’s Not the Charm for Walmart’s Healthcare Delivery Ambitions With Walmart’s announcement last week that it plans to shutter its Walmart Health business, this week’s graphic takes stock of the company’s healthcare delivery journey over nearly the past two decades. Infographic Gist Weekly: May 10, 2024 Steward Health Care files for bankruptcy and plans to sell its hospitals, and Florida sues the Biden administration over a new healthcare anti-discrimination rule. Blog Continuing the Conversation: Transcarent CEO Glen Tullman on the Future Employer-Sponsored Healthcare (part 2) On this encore episode of Gist Healthcare Daily, we hear the second part of host J. Carlisle Larsen’s conversation with Transcarent CEO Glen Tullman about that acquisition and how it fits into his company’s long-term goals. Podcast Transcarent CEO Glen Tullman on Creating a National, Independent “Provider Ecosystem” with 10 Large Health System Partners (part 1) On this episode of Gist Healthcare Daily, we revisit host J. Carlisle Larsen’s conversation with Transcarent CEO Glen Tullman where they discussed the health system partnerships and the company’s direct contracting model. Podcast ICHRA: The Great Bifurcation of the Employer’s Role in Health Insurance U.S. employers have played a dual role in the health insurance of their employees – both paying for their health insurance coverage and choosing their health insurance options. These two roles have been tied at the hip, but now, ICHRA (individual coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement) products offer an opportunity to bifurcate that role. Blog 2023 State of the Healthcare Consumer Report: Measuring What Matters Explore the current state of health system growth and performance measurement; progress the industry has made in adopting consumer-centric, relationship-focused metrics; the barriers they face; and the types of decisions and strategies that arise from taking a more consumer-centric approach. Research Report The Employer Strikes Back: The Hollowing of the Commercial Health Insurance Market and Its Impact on Payers and Providers Today, the commercial group health insurance market is hollowing out, primarily driven by affordability pressures that have been building for decades. Blog Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page › Last page Last
Gist Weekly: May 31, 2024 Ozempic trial shows the drug slows kidney disease progression, a blood-based colorectal cancer test is endorsed for FDA approval, and nursing home trade groups sue over the new staffing mandate. Blog
Medicare Physician Payment Not Keeping Up Following the US Senate Finance Committee’s recent white paper on Medicare physician payment reform, the graphic shows how Medicare payments to physicians have not kept pace with inflation. Infographic
Preparing for Medicare Advantage’s Make-or-Break Moment In recent years, the Medicare Advantage (MA) program enjoyed both rapid membership growth and positive attention from healthcare organizations and advocates. As of the beginning of 2024, 33.4 million Americans were enrolled in MA, up 7% from 2023. Article
Walmart’s Primary Care Failure Is Important and a Problem Walmart’s failure as a healthcare provider points to some big problems in U.S. healthcare, including a difficult business model, an unfriendly reimbursement model, and a basic healthcare expense-to-revenue problem. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
A Different Way of Thinking About Hospital Closures The many forces driving some hospitals to financial distress make it impossible to maintain the status quo. Leaders can move beyond a binary close-or-don’t-close decision to reconsider what it means to deliver healthcare in communities that struggle to support a hospital. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Third Time’s Not the Charm for Walmart’s Healthcare Delivery Ambitions With Walmart’s announcement last week that it plans to shutter its Walmart Health business, this week’s graphic takes stock of the company’s healthcare delivery journey over nearly the past two decades. Infographic
Gist Weekly: May 10, 2024 Steward Health Care files for bankruptcy and plans to sell its hospitals, and Florida sues the Biden administration over a new healthcare anti-discrimination rule. Blog
Continuing the Conversation: Transcarent CEO Glen Tullman on the Future Employer-Sponsored Healthcare (part 2) On this encore episode of Gist Healthcare Daily, we hear the second part of host J. Carlisle Larsen’s conversation with Transcarent CEO Glen Tullman about that acquisition and how it fits into his company’s long-term goals. Podcast
Transcarent CEO Glen Tullman on Creating a National, Independent “Provider Ecosystem” with 10 Large Health System Partners (part 1) On this episode of Gist Healthcare Daily, we revisit host J. Carlisle Larsen’s conversation with Transcarent CEO Glen Tullman where they discussed the health system partnerships and the company’s direct contracting model. Podcast
ICHRA: The Great Bifurcation of the Employer’s Role in Health Insurance U.S. employers have played a dual role in the health insurance of their employees – both paying for their health insurance coverage and choosing their health insurance options. These two roles have been tied at the hip, but now, ICHRA (individual coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement) products offer an opportunity to bifurcate that role. Blog
2023 State of the Healthcare Consumer Report: Measuring What Matters Explore the current state of health system growth and performance measurement; progress the industry has made in adopting consumer-centric, relationship-focused metrics; the barriers they face; and the types of decisions and strategies that arise from taking a more consumer-centric approach. Research Report
The Employer Strikes Back: The Hollowing of the Commercial Health Insurance Market and Its Impact on Payers and Providers Today, the commercial group health insurance market is hollowing out, primarily driven by affordability pressures that have been building for decades. Blog