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See all of the past issues of the newsletter here, ranging from the state of digital therapeutics to how resident matching works. New posts weekly...for the most part. Okay they come out randomly.

How to measure ROI in healthcare (the right way)

The good, better, and best way to do it (+ a calculator)

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Wet Labs Shouldn’t Be Boring (for young scientists)

This is the first touchpoint for science, we should make it more enticing

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Some VoiceAI in Healthcare thoughts

Features vs. companies, AI scribes can do more, and pricing questions

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What does Innovaccer actually do? A look under the hood

A conversation about EHRs, who their customers actually are, and building apps

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OOP’s 2025 Healthcare AI Hackathon Projects

Copilots for parents, Chaining Agents, Talking to Your Genome, and more.

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Paying for friends, Gaming Insurance Via Marriage, and hacking CPAP machines

What are some more fringe healthcare behaviors?

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Emergent, Fringe Behaviors in Healthcare

tweeting out your labs, induced mental states, and more

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The New Ways Pharma Subsidizes Care

Is it right? Is it wrong? Is it just hard to track?

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Running Tests on Generative AI with Autoblocks

How can we keep these bots in check??

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Quick Hinge Health S-1 Thoughts

I'm sure you were all waiting with bated breath for this

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A few more thoughts on Medical Aid in Dying

Readers sent in their experiences and thoughts - let the morality fight begin

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The New Out-Of-Pocket 10 year plan

It’s time for a new north star for this company

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The Debate: Should Medical Aid in Death Be Legal?

Oh boy, I’m nervous to wade into this conversation

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Getting Healthcare Data To Train An AI Model - with Protege

And all the different ways you can “train” a model

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Why are docs late? Why can’t I find prices for anything?

And why can’t I get my record into one place?

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What Do Hospitals Care About?

Let’s look at three big priorities and a real hospital

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How are hospitals actually organized

We’re gonna need a whiteboard for this one

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Announcing…The Out-Of-Pocket Hackathon #2

HACK, STREETS, BACK, ALRIGHT!!!

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Transcarent, AI Therapists, Interoperability, and more

Plus Out-Of-Pocket is hiring!!

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Some More 2025 Predictions

OOP readers always have some interesting ones

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Out-Of-Pocket’s 2025 Predictions

I’m like 50% right every year, I just never know which 50%

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Common healthcare questions I get

Some of your FAQs finally answered

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Citizen fraud detection, self-experimentation, and OOP Updates

Some random musings and OOP announcements before the holiday

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Sleep health is getting interesting

The consumer and clinical worlds of sleep are colliding

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Licensing and Credentialing Nonsense with Assured

This can't really be the process right?

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Weird health insurance concepts

Intercompany eliminations, copay shenanigans, and reference-based pricing

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What does longevity medicine actually mean?

An interview with a practicing longevity medicine doctor

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23andMe, a healthcare fund idea, and the NHS

Some random musings coming from London

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More weird issues in value-based care

Thoughts on value-based care from people actually building in it

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Thinking beyond value-based care

Maybe there’s more to life than shared savings

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The Curious Case of Professional Employer Organizations

A tale about complexity, risk skimming, and what counts as an “employee” or “company”

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The Engineering Behind Healthcare LLMs with Abridge

What kinds of challenges come with creating a speech-to-text gen AI product?

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More thoughts on consumerization in healthcare

tales from other countries, industries, and more

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Can patients be good healthcare shoppers?

Should there be limits to patient agency?

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Some cool AI healthcare projects

What was built at the OOP hackathon?

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How Data Transformed Small Group Underwriting

Paper forms be gone, now we anonymize and risk it all (literally).

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The New Wave of Concierge Medicine

People want to pay for “better” healthcare, but that definition is changing.

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How do hospitals spend money?

it's time to look at a financial statement

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More weird rules in healthcare

3 liters of blood, sequential billing, COBRA, and more

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Silly little rules in healthcare

The industry is chock full of ‘em, here's 3

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AI in healthcare - defensibility, capabilities, and cost reduction

fine fine I'll write about AI

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Breaking Down Electronic Data Interchange, X12, and Stedi

Ever wonder why it’s so hard to figure out what’s covered?

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“Mission-driven” should be more specific

everything is a set of tradeoffs, let's be honest about that

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Musings on CVS, two-way negotiation, and venture studios

+ we're hosting another dinner! and courses ending!

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Healthcare Ideas That Look Good But Are Bad

clinical trial matching, "find a specialist", and more

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How To (Properly) Text Patients

Do’s and don’ts + tactical tips from an actual doctor

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Medical Tourism: A Tarpit Idea

trust me, you're not the first to look into this

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The Change Healthcare Debacle

what are clearinghouses and do we still need them?

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Some Common Mistakes to Avoid When Pitching Angels

With some real decks and emails!

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Start your healthcare company outside of the US

Gotta start somewhere...else?

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Clinical Pharmacists, Generative AI, and InpharmD

Going under the hood of a generative AI product

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Time Toxicity in Healthcare - A Real-World Example

Being sick is already annoying, now I gotta spend time on the phone???

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But actually good 2024 predictions

I know, enough predictions. But these are good!

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2024 Healthcare Predictions, Out-Of-Pocket Style

I'm not a fortune teller, I'm a fortune, teller

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Let’s Talk About Obesity Drugs

we're entering a new era for these treatments

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Maternity Care and Payer Contracting with Marta Bralic Kerns

and some good tips for consultants working at startups

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Transforming Healthcare Data with Tuva Health

The nitty, gritty, and shitty of working with health data

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Why don’t healthcare companies say what they do?

And some tips to figure out what a company does

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Patient Messaging Conundrum pt. 2

Some thoughts from an academic, a behavioral scientist, a patient, and more

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Should we charge for patient messaging?

guess I'm texting my resident friends

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How Value-Based Care Contracting Works with Accorded

With calculators and contracts you can see yourself

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How to analyze public healthcare datasets (even if you're non-technical)

Plus: using ChatGPT to analyze datasets?

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Research papers and the patient perspective

we can make improvements with some better studies

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Dental Insurance, Value-Based Dental, and Beam Benefits

Why doesn’t dental have value-based care?

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Things I’m watching in healthcare 2023

it's been a weird year

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Healthcare in India

From the eyes of someone on the ground

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The weird CPT code process you need to understand

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words are billed CPT 99245”

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Healthcare Private Equity, More Thoughts

From a doctor, an ex-PE person, and way smarter people than me

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Is healthcare private equity that bad?

they're a product of their environment

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Why don’t we screen healthy people to catch diseases early?

the fight that comes up every month

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Is vision insurance a scam?

the weird, verticalized world of vision "insurance"

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OOP's 3 year anniversary

some thoughts/reflections

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More (GPTish) healthcare startup ideas

You might find your future cofounder reading this one

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GPT healthcare startup ideas

and a call for some of yours

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Rethinking organization structures

Is there something beyond top-down hierarchies?

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Digital health needs more creative financing options

And does venture actually work for healthcare services?

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More 2023 predictions

should just start 2024 predictions I guess

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Out-Of-Pocket’s 2023 predictions

mine are right all the others are wrong

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The Ro Breakdown

The idea of “goal oriented care” and the big questions around direct-to-patient care

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New Healthcare Crash Courses + Some Updates

learn stuff and also other things

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Ways to give power to the patients

can software give us agency?

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Pitching to payers, pilots, and what makes Blue Cross distinct with Tricia Garland

so you want to know what health insurers are looking for?

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Answers: Should Physicians Create Lifestyle Plans?

some real-world stories from people dealing with this

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Should Physicians Create Lifestyle Plans?

or should it be its own specialized skillset?

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It’s Time For Physician Independence

Why it might be easier to start a practice today

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Out-Of-Pocket’s Healthcare Crash Course Launches!!

Learn the basics of healthcare in a fun, entertaining, and accessible way

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Turning Conversations Into Documentation Automagically 🪄 with Abridge

How to get more value out of the rich data of patient-provider conversations

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Completely new healthcare markets and what to build for them

that new new

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Application reminder, new virtual discussion, new course

quick housekeeping things

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More Thoughts On Amazon and One Medical

Is this the start of Amazon's business offering? A recession hedge?

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The Amazon + One Medical Post

I guess I should say something?

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The New Price Transparency Laws And Turquoise Health

Are we actually moving to a healthcare shopping experience?

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All of the main problems with US healthcare

let's get all of our problems out on the table

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Some Thoughts On Startups Overpromising

the role RFPs play, how it's difficult to define patient harm, and more

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OOP Slack final reminder

it's the final countdownnnnn

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How much is “too much” when it comes to overpromising as a startup?

navigating the gray area

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How Healthcare Payments Work with Candid Health

A walkthrough of how money flows between payers and providers

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The New (Experimental) Ways To Tackle The Mental Health Crisis

let's try some new stuff to scale mental health care

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Introducing The OOP Talent Collective

if you're hiring, this will help you find the best candidates

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Mental Health And The Weird Fixation With Employers

an uncomfortable conversation about mental health access

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