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 personnel 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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Consumerism
4sight Friday: J.P. Morgan Conference Report | An Epic Patient Data Failure | Having Fun with Healthcare Fraud
  Read 02/07/2020 Edition here.  Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Read his columns… Read More
By February 7, 2020
Economics
Fun with Fraud Numbers
I’ve watched enough crime movies and TV shows to know that the law enforcement character who talks tough… Read More
By February 5, 2020
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Innovation
4sight Friday: The Outlook of Outlooks | Death by Merger | Fixing Medicare Advantage
  Read 01/31/2020 Edition here.  Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Read his columns… Read More
By January 31, 2020
Economics
Death by a Thousand Mergers
When the Centene Corp. completed its $17.3 billion acquisition of WellCare Health Plans late last week, it created a… Read More
By January 30, 2020
Consumerism
What’s Going to Happen in Healthcare in 2020—or Not: A Meta Review of Industry Outlooks
Maybe it’s because it’s a new decade. Maybe it’s because the year 2020 makes for easy vision analogies…. Read More
By January 28, 2020
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Consumerism
4sight Friday: Are Hospitals Listening to Patients? | Why Medicare for All Won’t Work | Veiled Threat from an EHR Vendor
  Read 01/24/2020 Edition here.  Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Read his columns… Read More
By January 24, 2020
Consumerism
A Sign That Health System Leaders Are Starting to Take Their Customers Seriously
As a highly skeptical healthcare business journalist, I tune my radar to look for dark clouds rather than… Read More
By January 22, 2020
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Policy
4sight Friday: Medicare Advantage Growing Pains | Injecting Healthcare Markets With Competition | Google Wants Your Patient Data
  Read 01/17/2020 Edition here.  Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Read his columns… Read More
By January 17, 2020
Economics
7 Ways States Can Save Consumers from Rising Healthcare Prices
Competition, regulation or both? Those are the choices facing states that want to make healthcare more affordable for… Read More
By January 17, 2020
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