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Pay hospitals to keep people out of hospitals? Not a crazy idea...

Emily Payne | March 19, 2018

In the four years since Maryland implemented a statewide system of pushing hospitals to lower admissions, savings are adding up to hundreds of millions of dollars for the taxpayers, employers and consumers.

To curb drug costs, states look north

Peter Westerman | February 20, 2018

The approach: Let the state contract with wholesalers in Canada, importing cheaper prescriptions from up north and distributing them to the states health care system.

Using AI for health care cost prediction and prevention

Peter Westerman | January 30, 2018

To make a dramatic impact on health care, we have to start from the beginning and the way each one of us engages with the health care system. From there, we can create the full chain to predict, preempt and proactively guide people to better care at a lower cost.

J.P. Morgan health conference all about the deals

Tonya Knudesn | January 12, 2018

The J.P. Morgan gathering comes at a jarring time when you consider that the other world of health care is flooded with uncertainty for the millions of ordinary Americans who inhabit it.

Probes target insulin drugmakers and pharma middlemen

Peter Westerman | October 30, 2017

With the price of a crucial diabetes drug skyrocketing, at least five states and a federal prosecutor are demanding information from insulin manufacturers and the pharmaceutical industrys financial middlemen.