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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

Outcomes

Burda On Healthcare: Vampires in Medical School

We learn lessons in life from many sources. One source, at least for me, is the movies. For… Read More

By David Burda March 31, 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

Outcomes

Burda on Healthcare: It’s Time to Earn Your Healthcare DEI Merit Badge

Let’s say you work in healthcare as an executive, administrator, clinician, technician, finance, IT or whatever. And you… Read More

By David Burda March 17, 2026

HHS Launches a Host of Transformative Payment Models (Oh My!)

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched 10 major payment models prioritizing prevention, outcomes and… Read More

By David W. Johnson March 3, 2026

Thoughts on the RHTP: What To Do When The Math Doesn’t Math

Since the passing of the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 (OBBBA) and the announcement of the… Read More

By Ann Somers Hogg February 17, 2026

Healthcare’s ‘Epic’ Saga: A Two-Part Series

There is a peculiar and pernicious form of irony embedded within U.S. healthcare’s fragmented data quagmire. Irony emerges… Read More

By David W. Johnson February 3, 2026

AI Is Rewriting the Revenue Cycle

Editor’s Note: This is 4sight Health Partner Content The healthcare revenue cycle has always been complex, and it… Read More

By Matt Wilson January 20, 2026

Economics

Burda on Healthcare: The Healthcare Affordability Crisis Is No Hoax

As we start another new year, it’s time again to ask whether healthcare has gotten more affordable for… Read More

By David Burda January 13, 2026

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