HealthLeaders Media June 21, 2018
SAN DIEGO — The annual meeting of America’s Health Insurance Plans kicked off with a warning.
AHIP CEO Matt Eyles said that consolidation and rising healthcare costs are reaching a breaking point.
“The urgency for innovation and change is accelerating,” he said.
The gathering comes on the heels of big news from a potentially fierce competitor — one that could seek to cut payers out of the healthcare equation. Amazon, J.P. Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway tapped a CEO for their new joint venture aimed at tackling employee healthcare costs.
Their choice, New Yorker staff writer and Harvard Medical School surgery professor Atul Gawande, is scheduled to address the conference Thursday morning.
While the exact nature of the new company...
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