How Oura Expanded from Wellness to Healthcare

Oura has evolved from a sleep-focused wellness startup into a company getting deeper and deeper into chronic disease management and healthcare integration. Ricky Bloomfield, the company’s chief medical officer, said Oura wants to integrate more of its data into healthcare workflows — in ways that are clinically meaningful, not burdensome, for physicians, he emphasized. The…

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The New ACA Repeal and Replace: Health Savings Accounts

Proposals from some Republicans in Congress would effectively repeal some or all of the ACA premium tax credits and replace them with contributions to Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) or something similar. Senator Rick Scott proposes “Trump Health Freedom Accounts” and Senator Bill Cassidy proposes HSA contributions available only for people who enroll in bronze level…

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Friday Links

Impact of scope of practice laws in anesthesia.Reforming PBMs.UK COVID response: “Too little, too late”Enforcement of network adequacy requirements in Medicare Advantage.Access to orphan drugs in Central and Eastern Europe.

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