Senior reporter covering operations for @modrnhealthcr. You'll also find me playing with dogs and/or throwing a Frisbee.
Chicago, IL
Joined January 2009
- Tweets4.1K
- Following1.1K
- Followers2.3K
- Likes3.3K
#AI has promised to make healthcare simpler, but wringing the kinks out of the emerging technology is testing clinicians’ trust.
Read more here: bit.ly/3Qh7AsR via @modrnhealthcr
In September, the @FTC sent noncompete-focused warning letters to undisclosed companies. I filed a FOIA request, which showed some of the biggest hospital chains — HCA, Tenet and UHS — are among 19 companies on the FTC's radar.
bit.ly/3MmhRlN via @modrnhealthcr
Alex Kacik retweeted
Insurance market shake-up spurs interest from integrated systems modernhealthcare.com/provide…
Alex Kacik retweeted
#ICYMI last night Optum is buying troubled Steward Physician Group via @alex_kacik
modernhealthcare.com/mergers…
Alex Kacik retweeted
Private equity-backed consolidation divides physicians - from @modrnhealthcr @alex_kacik
ow.ly/Afz050QWRPj
Alex Kacik retweeted
Good story from @alex_kacik (despite the positioning in the hed) about why rural emergency hospital designation uptake has been so slow:
The tradeoffs include giving up swing beds and 340B savings
modernhealthcare.com/provide…
(corrected tweet)
Alex Kacik retweeted
Not perfect, but a step in the right direction. Since 2018, @BPC_Bipartisan has recommended rightsizing health care services to fit community needs:
bipartisanpolicy.org/report/…
How CMS' rural pay model has helped hospitals: modernhealthcare.com/provide… via @modrnhealthcr @alex_kacik
Alex Kacik retweeted
Hello from SF! On the ground with @alex_kacik this week at @jpmorgan's 42nd annual healthcare conference. Don't forget to follow along for real-time updates from the MH team. #JPM2024 modernhealthcare.com/finance…
Alex Kacik retweeted
A Brighton Park family is raising money after a Chicago journalist was killed in a house fire. blockclubchi.co/40EmPx3
Alex Kacik retweeted
Employers have hit a tipping point, as @alex_kacik of @modrnhealthcr reports. @GloriaSachdev and her peers are setting a new policy agenda.
Follow experts like @ChrisSkisak, @lizzymitch2, @cademars, and @D_Giambalvo to see the progress in their states.
modernhealthcare.com/provide…
Alex Kacik retweeted
ICYMI: Providers, payers and patients’ inevitable fight over virtual care access and pay has come to fruition.
modernhealthcare.com/insuran… via @modrnhealthcr w/ @alex_kacik
Since October, at least a dozen hospital transactions have been proposed or completed involving buyers or sellers across the Midwest.
bit.ly/3qlX5Yy via @modrnhealthcr w/ visual from @TimBroderick
Sanford and Fairview just announced that they scrapped their proposed merger. It's their second failed merger attempt over the past decade. We got a tip yesterday that an announcement was coming, and got this story ready:
bit.ly/43Iprdq via @modrnhealthcr
Alex Kacik retweeted
About 9 months after announcing a planned merger, @mfldclinic and @EssentiaHealth take a key step forward (via my colleague, @alex_kacik) modernhealthcare.com/mergers…
Alex Kacik retweeted
Many hospitals receive millions of dollars a year in 340B drug discounts, a program created to help safety-net hospitals reach more patients. The program has grown exponentially, spreading program dollars across tens of thousands of hospitals, clinics and pharmacies.
Many hospitals receive millions of dollars a year in 340B drug discounts, a program created to help safety-net hospitals reach more patients. The program has grown exponentially, spreading program dollars across tens of thousands of hospitals, clinics and pharmacies.
The 340B program should be adjusted to better serve safety-net hospitals, #healthcare policy experts and economists said. Here’s the story from @TimBroderick and I: bit.ly/3Q4la0G via @modrnhealthcr
Thank you to @saynikpay, @khemp64, @GeBaiDC, @LawAndDogs and Gary Young at @Northeastern for helping us tell the story.