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Outcomes Based Arrangements in Biopharma

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Today’s advanced therapies target devastating diseases with high unmet need. Given the urgent medical need (and pressure from patient advocates), regulators increasingly must make decisions based on early, incomplete data when it comes to durability, real-world effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness – all while bearing costs that can exceed $1 million per patient.

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Survivorship Is Expanding Cancer Care — How Are Oncology Providers Responding?

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  • Digital

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Recon speaks with AJMC on emerging outcomes data for high touch primary care models in commercial populations

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AJMC: More frequent visits to primary care can save net $30-40 PMPM for top 20% highest risk commercial members

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Recon analysis in AJMC demonstrates, for the first time for commercially covered patients, the value of risk-stratifying primary care visit frequency

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Walmart Health didn’t test the opportunity in rural underserved markets

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Amazon becomes a shopping facilitator for healthcare services (finally…)

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Are some of Kaiser’s regional ambitions starting to pay off?

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What’s so special about One Medical in the eyes of Amazon? A few quick thoughts

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The coming site-of-care shock for infusions

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  • Providers

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The ongoing physician affiliation land grab in Pennsylvania’s Capital District

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Optum opening new competitive terrain in Revenue Cycle Management

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Profit engine swap-outs: How UPMC sustained itself after the Highmark decoupling

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JAMA Network: Trends in the Concentration and Distribution of Health Care Expenditures in the US, 2001-2018

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Iora Agonistes: High-touch primary care in Medicare Advantage is no sure bet after all

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Four plausible rationales for incumbent hospitals to embrace hospital@home despite the potential to divert “heads from beds”

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WMT’s MeMD acquisition: too small a play to make the difference

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How much are Humana’s value-based care models really taking out of utilization?

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Walmart Health: Will the fifth attempt at clinics be the charm?

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A tale of two cities: Referral networks of orthopedic surgeons in Miami and Seattle

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  • Digital

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