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By: David Ostrowsky Unfortunately, there has long been a widely held perception that the healthcare industry is largely antiquated and riddled with inefficient processes. Perhaps that can explain why last week’s announcement – that Machinify, a provider of artificial intelligence…

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An App for What Ails You

January 13, 2025

By: Nick Bonds, Esq. Feeling under the weather? There’s an app for that. Sort of. This is the future presaged by “PDURS” (Prescription Drug Use-Related Software). One of the sillier acronyms to grace the healthcare industry in recent memory, PDURS…

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By: David Ostrowsky Was it a standard administrative cost or a true “phantom tax” allegedly stifling competition? Back in November, Wesco, a 55-year-old privately-held gas station chain, and the benefits fund for the Utility Workers Union of America filed a…

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By: Kelly Dempsey, Esq. It’s not the news any of us wanted to hear, but 2025 has arrived with no extension to the telehealth services safe harbor for high deductible health plans that are HSA-qualified. As such, the safe harbor…

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By: David Ostrowsky Earlier this month, as the healthcare industry was receiving an inordinate amount of unwanted public attention and scrutiny, there was actually a positive development stemming from one of the country’s largest health insurers. Indeed, lost in the…

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By: David Ostrowsky Well before Hurricane Helene, one of the deadliest storms in modern American history, ripped through Western North Carolina earlier this autumn, decimating scores of residences and businesses and washing away entire neighborhoods, the largely impoverished Appalachian region…

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