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Podcast: Relentless Health Value
Episode: EP247: From Quality Measures to Medicare Advantage (Maybe for All) and Price Gouging, With John Gorman, CEO and Chairman of Nightingale Partners
Description: In this health care podcast, I speak with John Gorman, who is a government-sponsored health programs guru. He's also the founder of a newly minted organization called Nightingale that (spoiler alert) we discuss toward the end of our conversation. I just want to interject right here that I, for one—but I'm sure John would agree—do not believe that Medicare Advantage (MA) is, as is, perfectly terrific and devoid of problems. There are, of course, well-known issues with coding, the whole exaggerated diagnoses for higher reimbursements thing … then there's the whole potentially wasteful quotas payments and the re...