Discoveries in Health Policy

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Monday, May 18, 2026

Augmented AI and AMA Thinking: Wishful Thinking?

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There's a new paper going the rounds of commentary at Linked In: Open access; find it here . See comment at LinkedIn by Jan Beger here ....
Friday, May 15, 2026

Dr Bien-Willner Is Departing MolDx - An Update

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  Gabriel Bien-Willner to Transition Out of MolDX Medical Director Role May 15, 2025  (Columbia, SC) LinkedIn by GBW: here . Gabriel A. Bien...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

Digital Pathology Dollars. Re-live the Film-Digital Switchover at the RVU Ranch.

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What’s Past Is Prologue:  Medicare, Radiology, and the Strange Migration from Film to Digital ## The CMS-RVU migration from film to digital ...

Updated: Amal Thommil's MRD Roadmap

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 Amal Thommil of DeciBio updates his map of MRD coverage in oncology. Find it here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amalthommil_reimbursement...

AI Guest Column: Chat GPT on TROP2 CDx from Roche Diagnostics Day

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  A previous blog summarized the 3-hour, annual Roche Diagnostics Day. I asked Chat GPT to go back to the transcript and discuss the news a...

AI Guest Column: ChatGPT & Opus: Roche Diagnostics Day

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On May 12, 2026, Roche held its annual Diagnostics Day with a 3-hour webinar and a 150-slide deck. Find them here:   https://www.roche.com/i...

To Fix Software and AI Reimbursement - Do We Need to Understand the RUC?

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To Fix Software and AI Reimbursement - Do We Need to Understand the RUC? Maybe. For at least five years, CMS has had difficulty pricing soft...

Understanding FDA Regulatory Documents for Digital Pathology: PAIGE and ARTERA-AI

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We often hear there are 1000 FDA software/AI devices or SaMD for radiology, and only a few for pathology. Let's look at pathology, and s...
Monday, May 11, 2026

WISeR Prior Authorization - It's Worse Than We Knew. Case study: DBS in PD.

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Announced last summer, CMS has now instituted the WISeR program to force prior authorization into Medicare Part B using outside venders and ...

AI Guest Column: Will Genomics Move In-House or to Send-Out?

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Header: For years, one of the Grand Questions in genomics has been "in house versus send out."  I asked Claude Opus 4.7 to write ...

AI Guest Column: What Next for ArteraAI?

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Header: Digital pathology at warp speed - Tempus acquires Paige, Roche aquires PathAI, ArteraAI gets a true FDA application (Breast cancer p...
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Bruce Quinn MD PhD is an expert on health reform, innovation, and Medicare policy. He helps both large and small companies understand and overcome hurdles to commercialization, as well as craft business strategies for a changing environment. CONTACT Dr. Quinn through www.brucequinn.com. BACKGROUND: Dr. Quinn has worked in academic medicine, Accenture business strategies, and for the Medicare program. EDUCATION: Stanford MD/PhD, MIT Postdoc, Kellogg MBA.
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