Becker's Healthcare June 22, 2018
Atul Gawande, MD, the surgeon chosen as CEO of the healthcare venture for Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway, on June 21 identified various methods for reducing healthcare costs during the annual meeting of America’s Health Insurance Plans in San Diego, reports Reuters.
Here are three takeaways from his speech.
1. Dr. Gawande, a surgeon at Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital and contributor to The New Yorker, identified surgery as the nation’s biggest healthcare cost, not pharmaceutical costs or other expenses. With that in mind, he said: “We need to act through data tracking...
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