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Top Reads of the Week (9.7.2018)

Hospitals Prepare To Launch Their Own Drug Company To Fight High Prices and Shortages https://lnkd.in/eQfC6An

Health systems driving prices higher with physician group purchases https://lnkd.in/en6VkvC

California hospital chain with ties to billionaire files for bankruptcy https://lnkd.in/e7xMveG

What’s At Stake In The Latest Affordable Care Act Court Battle https://lnkd.in/eBmmhfB

Voters Focus on Economy, Health Care and Immigration in Midterms https://lnkd.in/eH9WHeJ

Financials – Trading like It’s 1994 (Again) https://lnkd.in/eaSgPND

The Middle Class is Exploding Around the World https://lnkd.in/eyKX2df

more stuff

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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