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Healthcare Brew

Tariffs: Understanding the impact

Uninsured by design: The rise of nontraditional health coverage in the US

HealthEdge

Healthcare providers are using AI, predictive analytics, and integrated data systems to cut costs, streamline operations, and keep the focus on patient care. This event explores real-world strategies, lessons learned, and pitfalls to avoid when adopting these tools to improve efficiency and protect revenue.

How Healthcare Providers Turn Data and Tech into Revenue Growth

PSA Airlines partnered with Included Health to simplify healthcare access, giving employees a front door to personalized, high-quality virtual care. In this session, you’ll hear how the partnership boosted engagement, improved outcomes, and delivered measurable business impact.

The Sky-High Value of High-Quality Healthcare

Burnout, staffing shortages, and fast-paced technological change are widening the gap between healthcare workers and employers. Explore how collaboration, career growth, and AI-driven solutions can help rebuild trust, strengthen retention, and create a more sustainable future for healthcare.

Stronger Together: How Employers and Employees Can Build Sustainable Healthcare Careers

Payer vs. partner: How health plans can create member-centric healthcare experiences

Caroline Catherman

Nicole Ortiz

Cassie McGrath

Maia Anderson

Kristina Monllos

Quarter century project: Healthcare over the last 25 years

Cuts to Medicaid funding could have a chilling effect on recent progress curbing opioid overdose deaths. 

Where the opioid epidemic stands amid Medicaid cuts 

A nondefinitive list of moves from the nation’s healthcare leaders.

On Rotation: October 2025

Nursing homes were hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, and some data suggests private equity ownership made care quality worse. 

As private equity firms buy up nursing homes, some studies suggest the ownership model worsens care quality 

Most recently, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared to walk back some of his prior assertions.

Researchers, trade orgs speak out against Tylenol, autism link

The direct-to-consumer GLP-1 market continues to grow. 

Costco now offers GLP-1s, but that won’t have a major market shift, experts say 

No news is good news, apparently.

Stability returns to Medicare Advantage star ratings

Illustration: Brittany Holloway-Brown, Photo: Adobe Stock

The Trump administration’s crackdown on direct-to-consumer pharma ads could make TV advertising “very expensive and very difficult,” one expert said.

What new advertising rules may mean for pharma companies 

Your monthly roundup of AI announcements is here.

AI 411: October 2025 

Brightline and InStride offered a new kind of care for kids. 

Pediatric mental health startups launched during Covid. Here’s where they stand now 

Undue Medical Debt has taken an eraser to billions in patients’ unpaid bills.

Inside Undue Medical Debt, the nonprofit helping hospitals erase medical bills

To be totally transparent: We still don’t know how much a procedure costs.

Health plan price transparency still needs work, report finds

Venture capital firms are focused on technology that enables home care and eases administrative burdens.

Where healthcare investors are putting their dollars 

Washington and New York seek to provide more protections for how health data is collected and sold. 

How state laws are beefing up health data privacy protections 

While we love a throwback, the Covid-19 pandemic’s first year isn’t something we want to revisit.

Health plan price transparency still needs work, report finds

The Latest Healthcare News

On Rotation: October 2025

Researchers, trade orgs speak out against Tylenol, autism link

AI 411: October 2025

Where healthcare investors are putting their dollars

Inside Undue Medical Debt, the nonprofit helping hospitals erase medical bills

Quarter century project: Healthcare over the last 25 years

Where the opioid epidemic stands amid Medicaid cuts

Pediatric mental health startups launched during Covid. Here’s where they stand now

As private equity firms buy up nursing homes, some studies suggest the ownership model worsens care quality

How state laws are beefing up health data privacy protections

Events

Stronger Together: How Employers and Employees Can Build Sustainable Healthcare Careers

The Sky-High Value of High-Quality Healthcare

How Healthcare Providers Turn Data and Tech into Revenue Growth

Resources

Payer vs. partner: How health plans can create member-centric healthcare experiences

Uninsured by design: The rise of nontraditional health coverage in the US

Tariffs: Understanding the impact

Uninsured by design: The rise of nontraditional health coverage in the US

Topics

Navigate the healthcare industry

Health plan price transparency still needs work, report finds

The Latest Healthcare News

On Rotation: October 2025

Researchers, trade orgs speak out against Tylenol, autism link

AI 411: October 2025

Where healthcare investors are putting their dollars

Inside Undue Medical Debt, the nonprofit helping hospitals erase medical bills

Quarter century project: Healthcare over the last 25 years

Where the opioid epidemic stands amid Medicaid cuts

Pediatric mental health startups launched during Covid. Here’s where they stand now

As private equity firms buy up nursing homes, some studies suggest the ownership model worsens care quality

How state laws are beefing up health data privacy protections

Events

Stronger Together: How Employers and Employees Can Build Sustainable Healthcare Careers

The Sky-High Value of High-Quality Healthcare

How Healthcare Providers Turn Data and Tech into Revenue Growth

Navigate the healthcare industry

Resources

Payer vs. partner: How health plans can create member-centric healthcare experiences

Uninsured by design: The rise of nontraditional health coverage in the US

Tariffs: Understanding the impact

Uninsured by design: The rise of nontraditional health coverage in the US

Topics