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Freedman HealthCare
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John Freedman, MD/MBA
President, Freedman HealthCare, LLC

John, CEO of Freedman HealthCare LLC, brings 25 years of expertise in performance measurement, health IT, care delivery, and healthcare reform. Under his leadership, FHC has supported states in developing all-payer claims databases, implementing health insurance exchanges, and driving healthcare transformation initiatives.

FHC President Discusses Hospital Non-Compliance in Health Transparency Legislation

John Freedman, MD/MBA
April 23, 2021
Analytics and Reporting, Data Quality
This piece on hospital price transparency non-compliance originally appeared on healthcare innovation, authored by Rajiv Leventhal. Having hospitals and insurers disclose their prices for items and services they provide has been a key federal healthcare initiative of late, but already, reports of non-compliance have dominated much of the conversation. As of Jan. 1, 2021, new regulations...Read more

FHC President John Freedman: The Health Crisis that Didn’t Go Away (WV Gazette-Mail)

John Freedman, MD/MBA
April 23, 2021
Analytics and Reporting, Leading an APCD
This Op-Ed was originally published in the Charleston Gazette-Mail. Even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and worldwide lockdowns, the opioid epidemic is raging unabated. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, since 1999, nearly 850,000 people in the United States have died from drug overdoses. About 500,000 of those deaths...Read more

FHC President pens Op-Ed promoting use of state APCD data for vaccine rollout

John Freedman, MD/MBA
April 8, 2021
Analytics and Reporting
This weekend, Freedman HealthCare CEO, John Freedman, published an Op-Ed in MedPage Today discussing how state’s all-payer claims databases (APCDs) can help policymakers target COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Our nation recently marked one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. President Biden marked the anniversary by announcing an accelerated pace for getting the nation vaccinated...Read more

FHC co-hosts Webinar on No Surprises Act for APCDs

John Freedman, MD/MBA
January 14, 2021
Leading an APCD, Starting an APCD
On Monday, January 11, John Freedman, President and CEO, described the implications of the Omnibus Reconciliation Bill’s provisions for APCDs for a webinar audience of over 250 health experts representing 47 states.  Topics included the timeline for key provisions, emerging opportunities for APCDs, composition of Labor’s Advisory Committee regarding a format that states may use...Read more
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