Author: Rick Ankrum

GoFundMe Has Become a Health Care Utility

GoFundMe started as a crowdfunding site for underwriting “ideas and dreams,” and, as GoFundMe’s co-founders, Andrew Ballester and Brad Damphousse, once put it, “for life’s important moments.” In the early years, it funded honeymoon trips, graduation gifts, and church missions…

5 Ways To Improve Medicare Advantage

Medicare Advantage is on the hot seat. High-profile critics like Don Berwick and Richard Gilfillan have called it the “Money Machine” in the pages of Health Affairs because of profit it has delivered to health system stakeholders. Congressional inquiries have…