By Gusty Wednesday, 8 July 2015 Aetna affordable care act Anthem Cigna Commercial Health Insurance Health Reform Humana ObamaCare Scott Gottlieb Wall Street Journal Good Health and Three Downsides to Commercial Health Insurer Consolidation. Elvonda Writing in The Wall Street Journal , Scott Gottlieb argues that the Aetna-Humana and the Anthem-Cigna combinations are evidence of waning in...
By Gusty 18:29 boards of directors conflicts of interest executive compensation mission-hostile management Mylan perverse incentives Good Health and Who Benefits? - Rising Generic Drug Prices and the Case of Mylan's Conflicted Property Purchases. Elvonda Rising Generic Drug Prices Health care costs in the US continue their seemingly inexorable rise. Even the parts of health care that used to...
By Gusty 12:20 Good Health and Congrats to Theresa Gilmore! . Elvonda Congratulations to Saint Louis University Program in Physical Therapy student Theresa Gilmore, who won an iPad Air 2 through the APTA's ...
By Gusty Wednesday, 1 July 2015 Clinton Foundation evidence-based medicine Gilead Hepatitis C Sovaldi Good Health and Bill Clinton, Paid to Speak to Biotech Conference, Extolled $1000 Pill to Prevent "Liver Rot," Despite Lack of Evidence that It Does. Elvonda What were they thinking? Former President Clinton Talkes to Pharma and Biotech Executives In mid June, 2015, the Philadelphia Inquirer repor...
By Gusty Friday, 26 June 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology anechoic effect conflicts of interest health care prices institutional conflicts of interest medical societies You heard it here first Good Health and How Institutional Conflicts of Interest Exacerbate the Anechoic Effect - the Example of ASCO Fearing "Biting the Hand that Feeds You". Elvonda As we recently discussed ( here , here , here and here ), in May, 2015, the New England Journal of Medicine, arguably the world's forem...
By Gusty 10:56 Good Health and Congratulations! . Elvonda Congratulations to Lauren (McCray) Schmaedeke ( DPT Class of 2011 ) on passing her CWS exam! Lauren is now a Certified Wound Specialist!...
By Gusty 06:56 Community Health Workers New England Journal of Medicine Good Health and The Potential of Community Health Workers (CHWs). Elvonda He was among the highest. Utilizers of healthcare services, that is. I had the pleasure of talking to a physician who is leading a group of...