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- By Tory Wolff
The battle to own healthcare’s consumer relationship is being nowhere fought more intensely than in the mobile arena. Tea leaves suggest that Aetna has pulled back from trying to own this relationshi…
- By Tory Wolff
In theory, narrow networks built around a single provider or a network of aligned providers (“provider-orchestrated narrow networks” or “ACO networks”) can pose a much higher stakes threat to non-part…
- By Tory Wolff
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If value-based care broadly delivers on its promise to reduce hospital admissions by providing more timely ambulatory care, a lot of today’s bed capacity will end up …
- By Tory Wolff
Summary
Boeing is creating a benefit design model which sets up providers to compete for their book of lives via provider-branded narrow networks
By offering a choice among competing narrow and full …
- By Tory Wolff
A number of observers have noted that the Apple’s partnership with Epic on HealthKit could reinforce the role of “closed IT system” strategies in general and Epic’s leading position among EMR vendors …
- By Nikhil Bhojwani
In this morning’s New York Times (June 3,2014), Andrew Ross Sorkin asks,“DO drug companies make drugs, OR money”? That's a fair question in the context of what I'll call a "fee-for-product" reimbursem…
- By wpadmin
Recon Strategy's West Coast operation is to be headed by co-founder and Managing Partner, Tory Wolff. The new office is based out of Seattle.
- By Tory Wolff
Summary
Aetna is stitching its inventory of ACO deals into a national ACO network and will offer them on its proprietary private exchange (PHIX)
Linking ACOs and PHIXs is smart because PHIX’s defined…