by Dennis Weissman & Associates, LLC | Aug 29, 2018 | Healthcare
With many tech giants looking for openings to disrupt the healthcare industry, a recent survey of health professionals point to Amazon as the one tech player likely to have the biggest future impact on the healthcare sector. Yet it would foolish to discount the...
by Dennis Weissman & Associates, LLC | Aug 15, 2018 | Affordable Care Act
Just like the Zombie in popular folklore, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) refuses to die despite the best efforts of the Trump Administration to kill it off. Despite GOP-led congressional action to axe the ACA’s individual mandate coupled with White House moves to...
by Dennis Weissman & Associates, LLC | Jul 23, 2018 | Healthcare
So whose ox is being gored under the Trump Administration’s blueprint to lower prescription drug prices? Well, if you guessed the powerful and politically well-connected multinational pharmaceutical companies — surprise — you’re wrong! A close...
by Dennis Weissman & Associates, LLC | Jul 6, 2018 | Hospital Laboratories
Hospital laboratories nationwide are facing a challenging financial climate in the wake of sharp cuts in Medicare payment which became effective this year under the Protecting Access to Medicare Access (PAMA) of 2014 combined with ongoing market uncertainty in...
by Dennis Weissman & Associates, LLC | Jul 2, 2018 | Affordable Care Act
Despite various actions by the Trump Administration to undermine the Affordable Care Act, nearly 11.8 million people ended up enrolled in coverage through the ACA’s health insurance exchanges for 2018, down only slightly from the 12.2 million who enrolled in 2017....
