Category: Economics

Podcast: Competitor, Collaborator or Replacement? 4/9/26

One-third of consumers are using AI chatbots for medical advice, with many people not following up with a… Read More

By David Burda April 9, 2026

Hospital Price Transparency Circa 1926

The deadline for hospitals to comply with CMS’s latest price transparency requirements was April 1. As of last… Read More

By David Burda April 8, 2026

Economics

Can Price Controls Be Reconciled With Value-Based Care?

As the healthcare affordability crisis escalates, efforts to fix the U.S. health system seem to have hit a… Read More

By Ken Terry April 7, 2026

4sight Friday 4/3/26

4sight Friday | Sucking the Blood Out of Medical Schools | Hospitals Are Like Baseball Stadiums | A… Read More

By David Burda April 3, 2026

Economics

Take Me Out to the Hospital

I like to say that healthcare is no different from any other industry, and businesses in healthcare are… Read More

By David Burda April 1, 2026

Economics

MedPAC March Madness: Hospitals Maintain the Status Quo

The annual March report to Congress from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, better known as MedPAC, never fails… Read More

By David Burda March 25, 2026

Policy

If We Can Eliminate Tuberculosis, Should We?

How Change Management Tools Could Help Us Address This Horrific Disease and Other Curable Ones Like It What… Read More

By Ann Somers Hogg March 24, 2026

4sight Friday 3/20/26

4sight Friday | What Healthcare Lobbies Get for Their Money | Earn a Healthcare DEI Merit Badge |… Read More

By David Burda March 20, 2026

4sight Friday 3/6/26

4sight Friday | Medical School Enrollment Signal or Noise? | 10 Medicare APMs and Counting | Public Health… Read More

By David Burda March 6, 2026

Economics