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Featured Story | By Anastassia Gliadkovskaya,Robert King,Susan Kreimer,Heather Landi,Paige Minemyer,Dave Muoio,Jacqueline Renfrow Healthcare is complicated, and few people know that better than the executives leading the industry. Meet the 20 we're highlighting here, and let us know on Twitter at @FierceHealth the executives you're watching. read more |
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Top Stories Of The Week By Heather Landi As Amazon has built its business with a laser focus on the consumer, the company's bigger push into healthcare raises the stakes for other players to take a consumer-centric approach, industry experts say. Businesses like Amazon with a national customer base have a unique opportunity to expand their share of wallet with loyal customers. read more By Paige Minemyer The California Advanced Primary Care Initiative is jointly backed by the California Quality Collaborative, an arm of the Purchaser Business Group on Health, and the Integrated Healthcare Association. read more By Anastassia Gliadkovskaya According to court records the nonprofit surveyed, about half of nonprofit hospitals sued more than 53,100 patients. Twenty hospitals were responsible for 80% of the cases. read more By Robert King Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin reached a deal on a broad spending package that includes a three-year extension of enhanced ACA subsidies. read more By Robert King The House Ways & Means Committee advanced legislation that aims to install several reforms to how prior authorization requests are handled to ease administrative burden. read more By Heather Landi GV, formerly Google Ventures, has deployed $1.3 billion into healthcare and life science companies since 2020. The VC firm's newest general partner, Ben Robbins, a psychiatrist and investor, sees opportunities to use GV’s deep pockets and Google’s tech capabilities to tackle some of the most entrenched problems in healthcare. read more By Paige Minemyer The results surpassed Wall Street analysts' expectations on both profit and revenue, according to Zacks Investment Research. read more By Heather Landi Telehealth giant Teladoc Wednesday reported a hefty loss of $3.1 billion in its second quarter. The company's share price tumbled in after-hours trading as management set lower expectations for its 2022 outlook. read more By Paige Minemyer Centene CEO Sarah London described the government insurance giant's response to the shooting during the company's earnings call and also revealed a $172 million loss in the second quarter, still beating the Street and slimming its losses compared to the prior-year quarter. read more |
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