This is not to say that fully vertical systems are a panacea: they of course have their own drawbacks. For one, they limit patient choices (because your insurance dictates a narrow range of providers that you can see). However, value-based care contracts that create only a partial alignment between payers with providers contain many of the same dra... See more

I think digital therapeutics are just another proof point that we need to move past our current volume-based “number of units sold” pricing model and into an outcomes-based “did it actually work?” one.

Data Provocation: Hospitals are broken and ripe for technological disruption. I have been following General Catalyst’s bold moves lately, including helping found several healthcare companies and most recently acquiring an entire healthcare system in the United States. My hope is that this leads to a vertically integrated re-imagination of healthca

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These arrangements differ from the more common ‘fee-for-service’ model, in which the insurer is billed for each service rendered by the provider. Under this arrangement, the insurer is the one bearing nearly all financial risk.