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The Weekly Briefing

by The Advisory Board Company

The Weekly Briefing takes the best parts of the Daily Briefing - the popular health care newsletter with nearly 200,000 subscribers - and brings them to you on the go. Join panelists Dan Diamond, Rivka Friedman, and Rob Lazerow as they explain the news, rules, and deals transforming American health care.

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Episodes

  1. #24: Hey, Let's Talk

    In the final episode of the Weekly Briefing for 2015, Dan, Rivka, and Rob take listener questions on whether fee-for-service is really going to die (starts at the 1:30 mark), if safety-net hospitals are doomed (9:30), the biggest unsolved problems in health care (16:00), if the health care…

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  2. #23: Year In Review

    Dan, Rivka, and Rob recap the year in health care and run through four of the biggest trends: Payer and provider consolidation (starts at the 3:45 mark), payment transformation (15:20), the growing role of tech firms (22:55), and consumerism (36:00). Then stick around for the last Electives of…

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  3. #22: This Is A Big Deal

    Congress just agreed to a massive $1.1 trillion budget deal — with major implications for health care — and Dan, Rivka, and Rob break it down.(Starts at the 3:30 mark.) Then they're joined by Anne Filipic, the head of Enroll America, to discuss how this year's open enrollment period is going....

  4. #21: Don't Shoot The Messenger

    More than 30,000 people die every year because of gun violence, and Dan, Rivka, and Rob discuss whether it makes sense to think about gun control as a public health issue. (Starts at 2:05.) They also debate the rising cost of pharmaceutical drugs and whether we're paying too much attention to...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

The Weekly Briefing takes the best parts of the Daily Briefing - the popular health care newsletter with nearly 200,000 subscribers - and brings them to you on the go. Join panelists Dan Diamond, Rivka Friedman, and Rob Lazerow as they explain the news, rules, and deals transforming American health care.

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The Weekly Briefing takes the best parts of the Daily Briefing - the popular health care newsletter with nearly 200,000 subscribers - and brings them to you on the go. Join panelists Dan Diamond, Rivka Friedman, and Rob Lazerow as they explain the news, rules, and deals transforming American health...

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The Weekly Briefing is created and hosted by The Advisory Board Company.
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