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Top Reads of the Week:

Big 3 hospitals say community benefits equal $1.3 billion in tradeoff for tax exemption https://lnkd.in/eG2bHze

Why Hospitals Are Getting Into The Real Estate Business https://lnkd.in/eXqqKKs

The Exercise That Helps Mental Health Most https://lnkd.in/ePPkvBV

Five Writing Tips to Sound More Eloquent https://lnkd.in/eJ5Y42M

Anthem, Walmart Partner To Expand Seniors’ Access To OTC Medications https://lnkd.in/eU-pviv

What Does Knee Surgery Cost? Few Know, and That’s a Problem https://lnkd.in/eHpnNt6

U.S. Hospitals Shut at 30-a-Year Pace, With No End in Sight https://lnkd.in/er9rAF3

Baylor health system to anchor national push to improve Medicaid patient care https://lnkd.in/eim7QS5

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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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