When I hear "value-based care" these days.

RT @LizzyLaw_: Exclusive: I spoke with 15 employees at the FDA to get a sense of how the agency is functioning since the April 1 layoffs. T….

RT @statnews: Here's how the tax-cut bill that’s headed to Trump’s desk would upend health care

RT @JakeSherman: 🚨HOUSE PASSES RECONCILIATION BILL, HEADS TO W.H. FOR TRUMP'S SIGNATURE. VOTE WAS 218-214. GOP NO VOTES:.FITZPATRICK.MASSIE.

RT @lawsonhmansell: This comes as a surprise to many people because so much of health costs are not out-of-pocket (aside from drugs), and a….

Hospitals, pharma, doctors, medical devices, health insurers, PBMs — the entire health care industry has crushed working households through higher prices and out-of-pocket spending, to the point that health care is a bigger expense than a mortgage.

Republicans are one step closer to gutting Medicaid and other health care programs, as Trump's tax bill clears Senate. Still a ways to go. Follow @john_wilkerson, @_daniel_payne, & @ChelseaCirruzzo:

RT @ddiamond: NEW: Inside "Operation Gold Rush," the government's biggest Medicare fraud bust ever. For years, people got mysterious bills….

Yes, the series of errors is known as "the entire U.S. health care system." A truly outrageous story from @Julie_appleby .

The Affordable Care Act survives another trip to SCOTUS. Health insurers will continue to cover top-graded preventive services for free, but RFK (and other future HHS secretaries) have a lot of power over the independent body that grades those services.

RT @SCOTUSblog: NEW: In Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, a case about the structure of a task force with the power under the Affordable Car….

RT @AP: BREAKING: Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned prize-winning TV journalist, has died at 91. .

Exact same stuff from 26 years ago. The illusion of change through voluntary pledges

When hospitals and health insurers don’t reach a new agreement and go out-of-network

@TaraBannow @LizzyLaw_ Semler and its MA insurers have claimed to care about spotting artery disease, saving people’s limbs, even preventing heart attacks. But once a change from Medicare made doing that less profitable, they abandoned that premise. True motives were revealed.

@TaraBannow @LizzyLaw_ But Semler confronted an existential problem: Medicare eliminated that artery disease code, worried it was being abused. So how did this health care company respond? It jumped fully into the cryptocurrency casino, calling itself a “bitcoin-first company.”

@TaraBannow @LizzyLaw_ Using Semler’s QuantaFlo device to “detect” asymptomatic artery disease was a goldmine for large MA insurers, like UnitedHealth Group, and their home-screening companies. We reported on this last year:

@TaraBannow @LizzyLaw_ Semler zeroed in on Medicare Advantage from the jump. Before going public, Semler told investors it could help insurers find a lucrative artery disease code: “The more common and more dangerous a condition is, the greater the opportunity for profit.”

Semler Scientific is one of the oddest companies I’ve ever reported on. A small company built around a questionable artery screening device has now fully pivoted into a *bitcoin speculator*. Casey Ross, @TaraBannow, @LizzyLaw_ , and I took a deep dive:

RT @HelenBranswell: That happens when #ACIP recommendations are no longer science based? When #CDC's vaccine schedules include recommendati….

Remarkable how hospitals are lobbying to keep the House version of the tax bill. House version still would force millions of people off their health insurance — but importantly, it'd protect hospitals' revenue in special Medicaid arrangements.