Discoveries in Health Policy

 You've heard about how PAMA affects different groups - big labs, small labs, physician labs, and the labs of different medical specialt...

 In several blogs we've gone past the median price discounts in various lab services.  We've actually profiled the range of  reporte...

Header: For AMA CPT Meetings, AMA will now released full minutes (100-pages-plus.) ### The AMA has two major reimbursement-related committee...

 Here's a mini post to guide you to a press release at Guardant.   Pennsylvania has passed a biomarker law, HB 1123, aligning CRC covera...

In an adjacent blog , I asked Claude to find publication dates for PFS and OPPS rules.  It sourced the data from different sites.  Sometimes...

 Annual "final rules" for Physician Fee Schedule and Outpatient Prospective Payment System (PFS and HOPPS or OPPS) come out around...

In a recent analysis , Guardant has nearly $1B in market cap per 100 employees, rising to $25B market cap and 2500 employees since its found...

We have the multiple of share price over revenue, and share price over netcome.  Another one is share price per 100 employees.   For this me...

  For the Precision Medicine World Conference - 3 days at the end of January 2027 -here's the website: https://pmwcintl.com/ And here...

 A companion blog discusses the excellent Michagan conference , December 10-12, 2026, sponsored by Association for Pathology Informatics. He...

  Digital Pathology Gets Real: A Timely December Workshop at Michigan Medicine / Dec 10-11-12 Byline: Chat GPT 6 (Los Angeles, October 29) A...

  GenomeWeb Makes PAMA’s Impact Personal—with a Downloadable Spreadsheet The reporting: substantial cuts, and uncertain relief Chat GPT 6 (L...

 A week ago, we used PAMA raw data to show not just the median price for codes, but the actual distribution of  payments (normal vs bimoda v...

 Header:  A large group of employers sues United Healthcare, asserting it overpays providers when it is merely dolely out third-party admini...