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Outside the Huddle #134
The Outside the Huddle section of the Healthcare Huddle newsletter contains quick-hit summaries of need-to-know news in the healthcare industry. Physicians to See Reimbursement Cuts in CY2023 CMS proposed a decrease to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule next year, which will significantly cut physician reimbursement. Yes, even with inflation, CMS plans to cut reimbursement. CMS…
Read MoreDifferent Care, Same City
Same, Same But Different Same age. Same sex. Same illness. Different treatment. This is unwarranted clinical variation; it is care that is not consistent with a patient’s preference or related to a patient’s underlying illness. The U.S. has a significant problem with unwarranted clinical variation, stemming from its inherent complexity. This isn’t a benign problem,…
Read MoreHealthcare Q2 ’22 Recap
BUSINESS The Netflix of Antibiotics The UK plans to use a subscription-based model for Pfizer and Shionogi to increase the supply of powerful antibiotics. The UK government will pay the two companies $13M/year over the decade for a guaranteed supply of two drugs, cefiderocol and ceftazidime-avibactam. This subscription model is known as a “pull incentive.” Such pull…
Read MoreThe Death and Life of the “Private Practice Physician”
Want to get these in your inbox to never miss an edition? Subscribe to Healthcare Huddle today! Is the “private-practice physician” life dead? Around three out of four physicians are now employed by a hospital, health system or corporate entity (PE firm or health insurer). I’d answer, “dead.” For now… The Deets The percentage of hospital- or corporate-employed…
Read MoreThe Other Epidemic
By the time you finish reading this newsletter, at least one American will have died from an opioid overdose. Overdose deaths have increased nearly 50% since the pandemic began, according to new data from the CDC. 2021 alone saw a record 108K overdose deaths, likely driven by fentanyl-laced drugs. The Deets While the 108K deaths included all…
Read More“Roe was egregiously wrong.”
The Supreme Court reaffirmed what many expected but wished would never happen: a strike down of the Roe v Wade decision. Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division. — Justice…
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