Modern Healthcare

Medicare’s Open Payments off to a murky start

While some organizations and advocates say the long-anticipated arrival of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s Open Payments is an important milestone in healthcare transparency, the reaction around the web was thoroughly mixed, chiefly calling out the system’s clunkiness that was tough to navigate even for healthcare experts. Part of the ACA’s Sunshine Act, Open Payments […]

By Dan Verel

Want to be influential in healthcare? Still helps to be white, male and highly paid

So, it’s true. The top 2 spots in Modern Healthcare’s 2014 list of the 100 most influential people in healthcare are black men. If you look at the top 10, there are two white women. The remaining 6 people are white guys. If you look at who makes the most money, it’s a much more […]

By Veronica Combs