Category: Economics

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Podcast: Checking the Industry’s Pulse After Epic’s AI Announcement 8/28/25

Dominant EHR vendor Epic is going all in on AI-powered tools for patients, payers and providers. We talked… Read More

By David Burda August 28, 2025

Economics

The Evidence Is Clear: Patients Shouldn’t Pay Their Increasingly Higher Medical Bills

I know someone who knows someone who works at a healthcare revenue cycle company. That someone told my… Read More

By David Burda August 13, 2025

Policy

4sight Friday 8/8/25

4sight Friday | For Health Systems, It’s Boomers or Bust | Middle-Brained Revenue Cycle | Docs Versus Pops… Read More

By David Burda August 8, 2025

4sight Friday 8/1/25

4sight Friday | Wither Antibiotic Stewardship? | Why We Need Emergent, Not Deliberate, Strategy | Prior Authorization Isn’t… Read More

By David Burda August 1, 2025

Outcomes

Prior Authorization Is About Payments, Not Patients

I’ve said this before, and it probably doesn’t bear repeating. But for some reason, I end up writing… Read More

By David Burda July 30, 2025

Outcomes

Can the Market Save Maternity Care and Our Future?

My wife of 42 years is a former labor and delivery nurse and a nursing professor who taught… Read More

By David Burda July 23, 2025

Outcomes

Podcast: How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think With Ardy Arianpour

Ardy Arianpour on DNA Sequencing, Personalized Medicine and Politics in Washington Ardy Arianpour is CEO and co-founder of… Read More

By David Burda July 22, 2025

Outcomes

4sight Friday 7/18/25

4sight Friday | Making Portals Work Harder for Patients | Healthcare’s Big Fix | Open Payments Reveal Open… Read More

By David Burda July 18, 2025

Policy

Podcast: Filling In the Patient Portal Blanks 7/17/25

A new report says patient portal use is up. But what can we do to make them more… Read More

By David Burda July 17, 2025

Economics