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BREAKING: Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan joint healthcare venture is ending

January 4, 2021 By Sean Whooley

Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN), Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase announced today that they are ending their joint healthcare venture. The venture, launched in 2018 and known as “Haven,” aimed to bring the companies’ scale and complementary expertise to a long-term project which initially focused on technology solutions to help provide their U.S. employees and families with “high-quality and […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Healthcare Reform Tagged With: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, haven, Insurance, JP Morgan Chase

The ABIM, its finances, and the great collusion

May 26, 2015 By MassDevice Contributors Network Leave a Comment

By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC

Filed Under: Blog, Healthcare Reform, Hospital Care, News Well Tagged With: Dr. Wes, Insurance

Maintenance of certification controversy dominates day one of the 2015 Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Sessions

May 18, 2015 By MassDevice Contributors Network Leave a Comment

By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC

Filed Under: Blog, Healthcare Reform, Hospital Care, News Well Tagged With: Dr. Wes, Insurance

Today in JAMA: ABIM MOC program’s evidence base gets destroyed

May 13, 2015 By MassDevice Contributors Network Leave a Comment

By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC

Westby Fisher

Paul Tierstein, MD and Eric Topol, MD critically review the evidence base for the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Maintenance of Certification program in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the results aren’t pretty:

Filed Under: Blog, Healthcare Reform, Hospital Care, News Well Tagged With: Dr. Wes, Insurance

What happens to doctors who fail their Maintenance of Certification examination?

May 11, 2015 By MassDevice Contributors Network Leave a Comment

By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC

Westby Fisher

What is it like for physicians to fail their ABMS Maintenance of Certification® (MOC) program examination? How does the largest member board of the ABMS, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), respond to doctors who fail their secure examination?

Filed Under: Blog, Healthcare Reform, Hospital Care, News Well Tagged With: Dr. Wes, Insurance

On the value of losing

April 30, 2015 By MassDevice Contributors Network Leave a Comment

By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC

Filed Under: Blog, Healthcare Reform, Hospital Care, News Well Tagged With: Dr. Wes, Insurance

ACC issues ‘urgent’ message, but to whom?

April 28, 2015 By MassDevice Contributors Network Leave a Comment

By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC

Westby Fisher

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) leadership, troubled by the “complex situation” presented by the changes in re-certification by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), issued an “urgent message” yesterday on their blog.

Filed Under: Blog, Healthcare Reform, Hospital Care, News Well Tagged With: Dr. Wes, Insurance

Insurer, DJO Global settle pain pump suit

April 7, 2015 By Brad Perriello Leave a Comment

Insurer, DJO Global settle pain pump suit

DJO Global and Ironshore Specialty Insurance agreed to settle their beef over a $10 million policy the medical device company invoked to cover legal claims in personal injury lawsuits filed over pain pumps it sold.

Filed Under: Legal News, News Well, Product Liability Tagged With: DJO Global, Insurance, Ironshore Specialty Insurance

The clever practice improvement module roll-over

April 7, 2015 By MassDevice Contributors Network Leave a Comment

By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC

Westby Fisher

On February 3, 2015, in response to overwhelming physician pushback regarding the Maintenance of Certification program sanctioned by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), the American Board of Internal Medicine suspended the Practice Improvement Modules contained in Part IV of their MOC program for two years.

Filed Under: Blog, Healthcare Reform, Hospital Care, News Well Tagged With: Dr. Wes, Insurance

Insurer wants out of $28m Biotronik legal loss

March 30, 2015 By Brad Perriello Leave a Comment

Insurer wants out of $28m Biotronik legal loss

An insurance company that issued policies to Biotronik wants a federal judge in Oregon to declare that they don’t have to cover Biotronik’s losses in a pair of lawsuits filed over allegedly unneeded pacemaker implantations.

Filed Under: Legal News, News Well Tagged With: Biotronik, Cardiac Rhythm Management, Insurance, OneBeacon

Is the Medicare “Doc Fix” really so appealing?

March 27, 2015 By MassDevice Contributors Network Leave a Comment

By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC

Westby Fisher

It was like magic, a vote was held in the House of Representatives on the Medicare “Doc Fix” and moments later, my inbox was filled with press releases from the American College of Cardiology and the AMA.  A few seconds later, a somewhat more tempered press release from AARP arrived, urging more revisions to the bill as it passed to the Senate for approval.

Filed Under: Blog, Healthcare Reform, Hospital Care, News Well Tagged With: Dr. Wes, Insurance

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