What do BJC and St. Luke’s propose to style this combination they are investigating? Two headquarters in different parts of the state but a BJC CEO and a St. Luke’s first board chair mean wha...
https://marciarille.com/2023/05/31/is-it-a-merger-is-it-an-acquisition/
With the outbreak of potentially deadly transmittable infections from the bacterium P. aeruginosa apparently sparked by contaminated eye drops manufactured in India, we once again confront how d...
Sandra Alvarez has a distinct perspective on this. Listen here: https://heal-ca.org/how-hospital-consolidation-inflates-prices-and-hurts-patients/?fbclid=IwAR2f64mHUi8Snpyk6DdztifavIR_aYZUo1UCfha...
https://marciarille.com/2023/03/13/hospital-consolidation-and-patient-benefit-or-harm/
Nursing Home Bankruptcies are apparently leading the way on healthcare bankruptcies. Is this correlated with private equity ownership of nursing homes? Anybody know? Inquiring minds would like to...
https://marciarille.com/2023/03/13/rising-nursing-home-bankruptcies/
Rebecca Blank died in February. Perhaps her greatest legacy is the supplemental poverty measure she crafted, most remarkable for measuring some different things, including government benefit prog...
https://marciarille.com/2023/03/13/rebecca-blanks-alternative-measure-of-poverty/
Over nearly three decades … Lilly has raised the list price on its most widely used insulin product, Humalog, by more than 1,000 percent, which is why I greet Lilly’s announcement of the $35 ...
But each state must choose whether to implement 30, 60, or 90 day enrollment renewal and unwind accordingly. The Great Unwinding is complicated, to say the least.
Once the COVID Public Health Emergency Ends (anticipating May 11, 2023), Americans will be fully exposed — once again — to the vagaries of pricing in our health care system as it applies to C...
https://marciarille.com/2023/02/13/let-the-co-pays-commence/
Good to know what is not causing vote tally delays in California. Good to know.
https://marciarille.com/2022/11/16/california-state-of-mind/
The final regulation is out from HHS attempting to fix what is know as “the family glitch” and giving a further 200,000 Americans opportunity access subsidized health insurance coverage throu...
https://marciarille.com/2022/10/14/fixing-the-family-glitch/