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What We're Reading: Tom Price's Health Stock Trading Scrutinized
What we’re reading, December 23, 2016: HHS secretary nominee Rep. Tom Price traded $300,000 in healthcare stocks while sponsoring health-related legislature; an economist and a physician suggest creation of digital health biographies; CMS hopes to incentivize cardiac rehabilitation program participation.
After The Wall Street Journal reported details of healthcare stock trades by President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for HHS secretary, some worry the potential conflicts of interest, though not illegal, could become a roadblock during Senate confirmation hearings for the position. Representative Tom Price, R-Georgia, bought and sold over $300,000 in healthcare stocks since 2012; at the same time, he was sponsoring or co-sponsoring 44 health-related bills in the House, according to the Journal.
An economist and an obstetrician-gynecologist have joined forces to promote a new health information technology idea: digital health biographies (DHBs). Fierce Healthcare reports that these biographies would integrate all of a patient’s medical history from several providers, as well as data from mobile health apps or wearable devices. The proponents of the idea say DHBs would be easier for physicians and patients to use than the current electronic medical records.
Less than half of patients who have had a heart attack or heart surgery go into cardiac rehabilitation afterwards, but CMS hopes to change that by offering incentives to hospitals that boost participation in these rehab programs, according to Modern Healthcare. CMS would pay participating hospitals $25 for each of the first 11 sessions of cardiac rehabilitation and $175 per session thereafter for each eligible Medicare beneficiary. Cardiologists caution that patients may still refuse the programs due to barriers like out-of-pocket costs and lack of transportation.
Laundromats as a New Frontier in Community Health, Medicaid Outreach
May 29th 2025Lindsey Leininger, PhD, and Allister Chang, MPA, highlight the potential of laundromats as accessible, community-based settings to support Medicaid outreach, foster trust, and connect families with essential health and social services.
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Managed Care Reflections: A Q&A With Melinda B. Buntin, PhD
June 2nd 2025To mark the 30th anniversary of The American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC), each issue in 2025 includes a special feature: reflections from a thought leader on what has changed—and what has not—over the past 3 decades and what’s next for managed care. The June issue features a conversation with Melinda B. Buntin, PhD, a health economist and a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Carey Business School.
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Inside the Center's MDD Value Model and Its Use of Dynamic Pricing
May 13th 2025Larragem Raines, MS, of the Center for Innovation & Value Research, discusses the organization's major depressive disorder (MDD) open-source value model, dynamic pricing, and the future role of artificial intelligence in care.
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