by Gregg Anthony Masters, MPH ** The news is monumental for the cannabis space and public health writ large. Here’s what actually happened today (Dec 18, 2025) and what the Trump cannabis Executive Order (EO) actually does – plus the 280E implications and the road ahead. An interesting ‘sidebar‘ came via CMS Administrator Oz who …
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Open Mic Predictions
By Gregg Anthony Masters, MPH** As producer or executive producer of six shows, both live and on demand, for Healthcare NOW Radio, including our most recent launch ‘Inside the Revival‘ we (the hosts and producers) were asked for our ‘Open Mic’ predictions for 2026 as follows: What major event, transformation, or innovation in 2025 had …
The Hidden Epidemic: Challenges in Measuring Deaths from Medical Errors
by Gregg Anthony Masters, MPH Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of posts on ‘Patient Safety’ and specifically the NMP (“not my patient, not my problem”) problem in medicine. I recently participated in the World Patient Safety Day in Washington, D.C., September 17th, 2024, with organizing founding members of the Patients for …
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Medicare Open Enrollment: To Dis-enroll or Not? Searching For Answers with an AI Assist
by Gregg Anthony Masters, MPH Some of you may have heard about the whining by UnitedHealthcare’s leadership on a recent earnings call which included the required ‘management’s discussion or operating results and market conditions’ analysis. A BIG WHAAAA! Overfunded since inception and having perfected the art of ‘upcoding‘ (i.e,, severity of illness and intensity of …
ACO Digital Assets Available
by Gregg A. Masters, MPH It’s been quite some time that I’ve updated this site though not for a lack of news. Yet some 434 posts later following the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, the signature, and against all odds accomplishment of then President Barack Obama, I thought I’d update both subscribers and followers …
CMS Announces 2019 Shared Savings Results
by Gregg A. Masters, MPH Some eight plus years in, ACOs are still earning their ‘shared savings‘ industry ‘sea-legs’. While they remain a central actor of transformation from volume to value birthed by the ACA for both the public (Medicare and Medicaid) and private (commercial health plans) sectors, the results are continuing to build. The …
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Need Another Acronym? Think ‘CHART’ Courtesy of ‘CMMI’
by Gregg A. Masters, MPH In a sea of relentless ‘acronym soup’ that peppers the landscape and too often separates us from the constituency we ostensibly serve (patients) via added layers of dubious complexity to the dysfunctional U.S. healthcare delivery and financing ecosystem, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has added the ‘Community …
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National Association of ACOs et al Weigh in on the ‘Value in Health Care Act of 2020’
by Gregg A. Masters, MPH Article discovered via the National Association of ACOs (NAACOs) a ‘501 (c) 6 non-profit organization that allows Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to work together to increase quality of care, lower costs and improve the health of their communities’ . NAACOs et al weigh in on the Value in Health Care …
Surprise Medical Bills In Context: Is Tech the Solution?
By Fred Goldstein, MS and Gregg Masters, MPH It’s Q1 2020 and everyone is now rightfully preoccupied with the recent World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of the COVID-19 as a global pandemic. Congress, the White House, National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and local state and county health departments (collectively …
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Population Health the 20th Anniversary Edition
By Fred Goldstein, MS, Alexandria Skoufalos, EdD and Gregg Masters, MPH Can you believe it’s been 20 years since the first Population Health Colloquium? Back then, we were just a few months into a new century. Maybe some of you even remember the concern over whether Y2K (a programming shortcut that used two digits to …
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