David Burda

David Burda began covering healthcare in 1983 and hasn’t stopped since. Dave writes this monthly column “Burda on Healthcare,” contributes weekly blog posts, manages our weekly newsletter 4sight Friday, and hosts our weekly Roundup podcast. Dave believes that healthcare is a business like any other business, and customers — patients — are king. If you do what’s right for patients, good business results will follow.

Dave’s personal experiences with the healthcare system both as a patient and family caregiver have shaped his point of view. It’s also been shaped by covering the industry for 40 years as a reporter and editor. He worked at Modern Healthcare for 25 years, the last 11 as editor.

Prior to Modern Healthcare, he did stints at the American Medical Record Association (now AHIMA) and the American Hospital Association. After Modern Healthcare, he wrote a monthly column for Twin Cities Business explaining healthcare trends to a business audience, and he developed and executed content marketing plans for leading healthcare corporations as the editorial director for healthcare strategies at MSP Communications.

When he’s not reading and writing about healthcare, Dave spends his time riding the trails of DuPage County, IL, on his bike, tending his vegetable garden and daydreaming about being a lobster fisherman in Maine. He lives in Wheaton, IL, with his lovely wife of 40 years and his three children, none of whom want to be journalists or lobster fishermen.

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COVID-19
Podcast: How to Stop Childhood Vaccine Rates From Dropping 6/5/25
A new study sounded the public health alarm bells on declining childhood vaccine rates. How can the private… Read More
By June 5, 2025
Economics
Three Physician Practice Ownership Trends to Watch
My favorite biennial healthcare report is out, and as always, it never fails to disappoint from a news… Read More
By June 4, 2025
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Innovation
4sight Friday 5/30/25
4sight Friday | Pursuing Revenue Cycle Nirvana | Upcoding Isn’t Just for Inpatients Anymore | Excess Deaths and… Read More
By May 30, 2025
Outcomes
Podcast: Preventing Excess Deaths in the U.S. 5/29/25
A new study says the U.S. is racing ahead of other high-income countries in the number of “excess,”… Read More
By May 29, 2025
Outcomes
Et Tu, Outpatient Coders?
Hospitals and doctors engage in their own version of upselling. It’s called upcoding. It’s when they assign billing… Read More
By May 28, 2025
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Economics
4sight Friday 5/23/25
4sight Friday | CMMI’s Prevention Plan | Who Wins When We’re Sick | Like Gas Station, Like Hospital… Read More
By May 23, 2025
Innovation
Podcast: CMMI Pursues an Ounce of Prevention 5/22/25
The new iteration of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation promises to focus on health, not healthcare…. Read More
By May 22, 2025
System Dynamics
Gas Stations and Hospital Prices
I drive through the intersection of Butterfield Road and Spring Road in Elmhurst, Illinois, all the time. It’s… Read More
By May 21, 2025
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Economics
4sight Friday 5/16/25
4sight Friday | The Sound and Fury of Trump’s Drug Plan | The Future of Clinical Labs |… Read More
By May 16, 2025
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