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Top Reads of the week: Tech Giants Pledge to Ease Patient, Provider Access to Health Data https://lnkd.in/eXAesDA

By the numbers: Hospitals are off to a profitable Q2 https://lnkd.in/eBfxmcD

Fearing ‘blue wave,’ drug, insurance companies build single-payer defense https://lnkd.in/ex89ucv

Toll of scuppered deals this year hits $540bn https://lnkd.in/eFYyDhw

Layoffs loom after Southeast Anesthesiology loses Atrium Health contract https://lnkd.in/eUTSpvs

Talking Worried, but Being Complacent https://lnkd.in/ezjJ8Bu

In California, a glimpse at the future of elite children’s hospitals https://lnkd.in/eRJVG7K

The New Business Banker: A Private-Equity Firm https://lnkd.in/e-WQKXF

Government health care is a growing part of insurers’ revenues https://lnkd.in/eWjB7_F

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The mid-level takeover edition

This week in healthcare: UnitedHealthcare earnings, Carbon Connects with Froedert Health, NPs get full practice authority in New York, Bright Health is exiting 6 markets after a dismal 2021, public health emergency gets extended, and DaVita gets acquitted.

Why Inflation Destroys Provider Margins

If they aren’t already, providers are about to get killed by inflation. How do those dynamics affect healthcare provider organizations? How do healthcare services businesses stave off intense expense margin pressures while also increasing top-line revenue?

The Unstoppable Optum Edition

This week in healthcare: Breaking down the Intermountain merger with SCL Health, Optum continues its buying spree in purchasing Kelsey-Seybold, Hims & Hers partnership with Carbon Health, a 7 hospital health system merger in West Virginia, Aveanna’s bad Q4, CMS payment updates, Memorial Hermann’s urgent care JV with GoHealth, and lots of fundraising announcements.

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