# large group (blogs) — RSS Amplifier

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## [The PPO Is Dying. Mike Patton Is Still Screaming. Winter Is Coming.](https://gottwals.substack.com/p/the-ppo-is-dying-mike-patton-is-still)

_2026-08-17 · Craig Gottwals · Gott's Gulch - Craig’s Substack_

An update involving hospital profit pools, reference-based pricing, 33 years of friendship, and the music that reminds me why I keep fighting.

## [PBM Suit: Spread Pricing on Steroids, Engineered Retroactively](https://gottwals.substack.com/p/pbm-suit-spread-pricing-on-steroids)

_2026-07-07 · Craig Gottwals · Gott's Gulch - Craig’s Substack_

How Pharmacy Benefit Managers Siphon Millions From Safety Net Hospitals

## [Working Inside the Box](https://gottwals.substack.com/p/working-inside-the-box)

_2026-07-02 · Craig Gottwals · Gott's Gulch - Craig’s Substack_

Embracing the Limits That Finally Fix Large Group Healthcare

## [No More Tears & the Annihilation of the Medical Ethos](https://gottwals.substack.com/p/no-more-tears-and-the-annihilation)

_2026-06-18 · Craig Gottwals · Gott's Gulch - Craig’s Substack_

How Big Pharma and Wall Street Looted American Healthcare

## [The Hospital Monopoly Extortion Playbook](https://gottwals.substack.com/p/the-hospital-monopoly-extortion-playbook)

_2026-06-16 · Craig Gottwals · Gott's Gulch - Craig’s Substack_

Exposing the exact mechanisms hospital systems use to block fair pricing and crush local competition.

## [Big Pharma’s Legal Playbook Against International Sourcing and What It Means for Self-Funded Plans](https://gottwals.substack.com/p/big-pharmas-legal-playbook-against)

_2026-06-09 · Craig Gottwals · Gott's Gulch - Craig’s Substack_

Gilead’s trademark theory is real, but so are its limits.

## [Hospital Prices Are the Problem. Everyone Knows It. Few Will Say It.](https://gottwals.substack.com/p/hospital-prices-are-the-problem-everyone)

_2026-06-03 · Craig Gottwals · Gott's Gulch - Craig’s Substack_

America’s Health Insurance Plans, the “AHIP,” of all people, just published a roundup of expert opinion pointing the finger directly at hospital prices as the root cause of the healthcare affordability crisis.

## [Decapitating the Carrier Network](https://gottwals.substack.com/p/decapitating-the-carrier-network)

_2026-05-19 · Craig Gottwals · Gott's Gulch - Craig’s Substack_

How Indiana Built the Ultimate Reference-Based Pricing Safe Harbor.

## [Nasty Surprises Riddle The No Surprises Act](https://gottwals.substack.com/p/nasty-surprises-riddle-the-no-surprises)

_2026-05-04 · Craig Gottwals · Gott's Gulch - Craig’s Substack_

How a $20,000 Breast Reduction Surgery Extracts $440,000 from the Government-Healthcare Industrial Complex

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## [Reference-Based Pricing Is a Leadership Decision, Not a Plan Design](https://gottwals.substack.com/p/reference-based-pricing-is-a-leadership)

_2026-04-20 · Craig Gottwals · Gott's Gulch - Craig’s Substack_

The savings are real. So is what happens when leadership flinches.