A former insurance executive is speaking up against the lobbying power of the health insurance industry as the issue of healthcare reform in the 2020 election heats up in the Democratic debates.

Despite the Trump administration’s battle cry to cut regulation and reduce paperwork for healthcare organizations, more medical practices say regulatory burdens are worse. And they’ve named prior authorization as the worst regulatory offender.

Physician-led accountable care organizations (ACOs) outperform those led by hospitals, according to a new report from Avalere Health. Not only did physician-led ACOs outperform by a significant margin, but all ACOs had higher savings the longer they were around.

The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) hosted an open discussion on the future of AI on Wednesday, Oct. 16, in Washington, D.C. Topics included AI’s impact on the economy and how public policies may change in the near future as a response to these evolving technologies.

Seattle-based Amazon will pay the travel expenses for its workers diagnosed with cancer to see specialists at a Los Angeles health system, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Americans spend more than a trillion dollars annually at hospitals, accounting for about one-third of all national health spending. And nonprofit hospitals are actually reaping in a huge profit, NPR reported.

UnitedHealth Group, which owns the nation’s largest private health insurer UnitedHealthcare, reported revenues of $60.4 billion during the third quarter of 2019––a 6.7% jump compared to the same three-month period in 2018.

Sky-high drug prices are a huge issue for many Americans who can’t pay for necessary medications, and 78% feel the federal government should be able to negotiate better prices.