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- By Jacob Wiesenthal and Tory Wolff
Closed vs. open
Hospitals can compete for patient referrals either by exclusively affiliating with a subset of physicians (“closed model”) or by collaborating with as many qualified physicians as poss…
- By Tory Wolff
What is revenue cycle management?
Revenue cycle management (RCM) is the process of converting care delivery into cash. At its most comprehensive, services include:
patient intake (scheduling/registra…
- By Jacob Wiesenthal and Tory Wolff
UPMC’s decoupling from Highmark exposed a critical vulnerability: economic dependence on its Allegheny County hospitals. In FY11-12,[1] these hospitals provided 70% of UPMC’s overall operating margin,…
- By Marc Herant
What makes an indication especially tough? The combination of a lack of understanding about the mechanism of disease and a lack of clarity on what endpoints would be sufficient for approval of a thera…
- By Nikhil Bhojwani
This post is from a talk at the 2021 Link Ventures CEO summit.
Original talk:
Transcript:
The practice of medicine has always been an information problem. Clin…
- By Marc Herant
The weird world of synthetic biology
In biology 101, one learns about the alphabet that translates DNA/RNA code into amino acids sequences ultimately resulting in proteins. Given that there are 64 pos…
- By Marc Herant
Cancer and mutational complexity
Probably the biggest news in cancer treatment this year is the approval of sotorasib (Lumkras, Amgen) which received accelerated approval in lung cancer with mutated K…