Boston Children’s Hospital is opening a new building. Great for patients? Or just a new way to drive up costs? Health Business Group President David E. Williams tells WBUR radio that monopolies need to be watched closely.

Mass General Brigham sustained a big loss in the first quarter as the Omicron surge and rising costs made life tougher. David Williams shared his perspective in the Boston Globe.

A Utah entrepreneur had an epiphany after receiving a discount for cash payment after the birth of a child. Like many before him, he decided he could fix healthcare by making it more like the rest of the economy. He’s had some success with Nomi Health.

David Williams explains the benefits and limitations of the approach in Utah Business:

A Kaiser Family Foundation report revealed the impact of the unvaccinated on the US health care system $5.7 billion. Fortune (Unvaccinated Americans cost the health system $5.7 billion) quotes David Williams on the impact of mandates and why busy hospitals are losing money.

It’s back to the office as the COVID-19 pandemic ebbs. David Williams is quoted in Workfest (Can Small Businesses Require COVID Vaccines in the Workplace?)

It’s counterintuitive: a fourth covid-19 wave is evident even as vaccine rollout accelerates. Conventional wisdom blames it on more contagious variants, pandemic fatigue, and states reopening too fast. There’s truth to all of that, but it overlooks the role that vaccination itself plays.

Some urgent care clinics have run out of vaccines and cancelled follow-up shots for certain patients. It’s maddening for affected patients, but not a public health problem assuming those shots are given to someone else instead.

United Health’s Optum is purchasing Atrius Health, an independent physician organization in Massachusetts. Atrius has struggled to compete against the huge hospital systems in the state, even though its physician-led approach is more cost effective. Optum’s heft may level the playing field.

David Williams was quoted in the Boston Globe (State’s hope of vaccinating almost everyone by the end of summer depends on a lot going right), encouraging the state to assume there will be enough vaccines and to focus on getting them out to people.

CBS News and the Daily Kos covered David Williams’s opinions about the use of Groupon in health care.