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Gawande described the new company as a long target rather than an instant solution to healthcare.
As CEO of the new company, which will be based in Boston, the public health expert will seek to "incubate better models of care for all," he says.
New research also reveals that customers want less expensive care, ways to understand benefits and incentives for healthy behaviors.
While this trend was consistent across the vast majority of states, there were larger increases among states that expanded Medicaid.
The trend in nursing mirrors a larger trend occurring across the healthcare industry with double-digit percentage differences between the salaries of men and women.
Barbara McAneny was sworn in as the first oncologist to lead the AMA; Patrice Harris will take the helm in 2019 as the first African-American female president.
Practice of PBMs being financially rewarded by drug manufacturers for setting higher prices needs to end, he says.
For the first time, CMS is holding a state fully at risk for the total cost of care for Medicare beneficiaries.
More than six in 10 said that a 15 percent increase in premiums would make their current group health insurance coverage unaffordable.
Executives said Thursday they had chosen a CEO to lead their healthcare company.