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Health & Wellness

Concierge Care for all: What would it look like?

By MATTHEW HOLT A few weeks back I wrote an article on what’s wrong with primary care and how we should fix it. The tl:dr version was to give e...

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AAAA (the four A)

By JACOB REIDER I haven’t blogged this yet, which kinda surprises me, since I find myself describing it often.  Let’s start with an overview. We ca...

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What A Digital Health Doc Learned Recertifying His Boards

By JEAN LUC NEPTUNE I recently got the good news that I passed the board recertification exam for the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM...

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Epic’s “Emmie” Chatbot Enhances the Patient Voice – For Their *Real* Customers

By MICHAEL MILLENSON A Rock Health write-up of this year’s Epic Users Group Meeting captured the artificial intelligence vibe with a play on th...

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Telehealth safe harbor: a call to action for health plans

By AMI PAREKH A little-noticed telehealth safe harbor provision tucked inside the One Big Beautiful Bill was a significant milestone in virtual...

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Labcorp, Blue Shield and my $34.95 co pay (part 5)

By MATTHEW HOLT I have been on a quest to try to understand why I am being charged $34.95 by Labcorp for some lab tests that I think should be free...

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New Bereavement Cost Calculator shows that grief is expensive

by EMMA PAYNE Grief is expensive. In addition to the significant human impacts, research shows that bereavement leads to a 20%-30% increase in...

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Does American Health Care Violate the ICJ’s Recent Climate Advisory Opinion?

By DAVID INTROCASO In late July the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced its long-awaited and highly-anticipated climate advisory...

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Lessons From The Medical Error That Orphaned A Cabinet Secretary

By MICHAEL MILLENSON It was a small anecdote, buried in a lengthy profile in The New Yorker of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, “Donald Tr...

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Public Health Is Not the Hudson River 

By GREGORY HOPSON There is no doubt Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is sincere about wanting to make the world a better place. The Hudson River cleanup,...

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We Should Write a Really Stern Letter

By KIM BELLARD On the heels of the disastrous floods in Texas, days away from the Hurricane Katrina twenty year anniversary, and with Hurricane...

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Rate Reality Check: How Capital Women’s Care Stacks Up Against the Competition (Part 2)

By JASON HINES This is Part 2 of Jason and Gigasheets’ investigation into the Capital Women’s Care vs UnitedHealthcare contract dispute in whic...