Forbes January 15, 2024
Modern medicine, for most of its history, has operated within a collegial environment—an industry of civility where physicians, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and others stayed in their lanes and out of each other’s business.
It used to be that clinicians made patient-centric decisions, drugmakers and hospitals calculated care/treatment costs and added a modest profit, while insurers set rates based on those figures. Businesses and the government, hoping to save a little money, negotiated coverage rates but not at the expense of a favored doctor or hospital. Disputes, if any, were resolved quietly and behind the scenes.
Times have changed as healthcare has taken a 180-degree turn. This year will be characterized by cutthroat competition and intense disputes played out in public....
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