Analysts Predict How COVID-19 Will Change Health Care

April 6

Besides all the other ways it’s changing American life, the COVID-19 pandemic is sure to have a major impact on how the health care industry does business going forward, equities analysts said during a March 31 panel discussion hosted by the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy.

The 24th Wall Street Comes to Washington Health Care Roundtable was held virtually this year in accordance with social distancing guidelines aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus that emerged in China in late 2019 and then spread throughout the world. As of press time, complications from the virus had killed more than 6,000 people in the U.S. and more than 54,000 globally.

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Leslie Small

Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.

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