We are awash in digital health data. And we are awash in multiple regulatory schemas designed to protect privacy, security and appropriate…
CMS, through its Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), is rolling out a refined version of an innovation model that is…
Danny Sands joined me recently to discuss the state of physician-patient collaboration, the nudge forward given to this notion by value-based purchasing…
In the nothing new under the sun department, Covered California, the California health insurance exchange is “threatening to cut hospitals from its…
Geisinger Health System’s Chief Data Officer, Nicholas Marko (he is also a practicing physician, the director of neurosurgical oncology at Geisinger), joined…
All Payor Claims Databases: ERISA Pre-emption and the Tragedy of the Commons
By David Harlow
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The Supreme Court handed down its decision in Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual on March 1, holding that ERISA pre-empts Vermont’s all-payor claims…
The recent Precision Medicine Initiative Summit at the White House saw dozens of private entities committing to join with the administration in…
Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans (CO-OPs) — the stealth public option under Obamacare — were to be founded by providers, with control…
All aspects of health care delivery and financing are undergoing change at breakneck speeds. Even federal health care financing programs, not known…