Jun 2016 NEJM Highlights for May 2016: Referral for surgery, and a miscellany of interesting biochemistry By Marc Herant NEJM Surgical volume and referral for surgery: The impact of surgical volum… Read more
Sep 2014 Ochsner and River Parishes: one type of endgame for managing redundant hospital capacity (updated) By Tory Wolff Providers Please see update at end of post. If value-based care broadly delivers… Read more
Sep 2011 Upping in ante in Pittsburgh: the health information exchange arms race By Tory Wolff Payers , Providers A few weeks ago, UPMC announced an agreement among nine area systems t… Read more
Aug 2011 The curious absence of payers in public HIEs By Tory Wolff Payers Last week, the National eHealth Collaborative published a study of sus… Read more
Aug 2011 ESRX-MHS Part 2: mail facility speculations (…or: Indulging my Inner SWAGer) By Tory Wolff Payers Summary ESRX was running at close to maximum capacity at its mail fa… Read more
Jul 2011 ESRX-MHS Part 1: Last stand of the PBM pure play: observations on the Medco-Express combination By Tory Wolff Payers UNH’s decision to take the commercial PBM business in-house did not fo… Read more
Jun 2011 Highmark and West Penn: it’s about mitigating consolidation, not transforming the system By Tory Wolff Payers , Providers Highmark will invest up to $475M in the West Penn Allegheny Health Sys… Read more
