Healthcare Innovation December 23, 2019
Mark Hagland

The conflict across the entirety of 2019 between CMS’ Seema Verma and a number of healthcare associations over her attempt to aggressively push ACOs into downside risk encapsulated so many of the year’s tensions

This week, I’m looking back at the year 2019, in two parts. In this blog, I’ll look at policy; in my second blog in this series, I’ll look at “everything else”—fully recognizing, of course, that policy and “everything else” are completely interconnected; but I needed to divide up this year in review conceptually, so that’s how I’m accomplishing it.

Indeed, per interconnectedness, everything between policy and not-policy was deeply and closely interconnected this year, even more than in past years. That’s...

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