The coming changes in Medicaid will place health plans squarely between a rock and a hard place. Here’s how plans are bracing for change. The post Health Plan Leaders Reveal Underreported Medicaid Challenges, Anticipated Risks, and Solutions appeared first on MedCity News.
Instead of creating new opportunities, traditional EMRs are constraining AI’s potential in healthcare. The post Why Traditional EMRs Are Holding Healthcare Back appeared first on MedCity News.
This policy watch examines state-by-state school vaccine requirements and exemptions, including recent policy changes to them and the extent to which they may affect vaccination rates.
This policy watch examines state-by-state school vaccine requirements and exemptions, including recent policy changes to them and the extent to which they may affect vaccination rates.
The conference is scheduled for Thursday, September 18 at Pegasus Park in Dallas in partnership with Health Wildcatters. Register today! The post Your Guide to the Hottest Topics on AI in Healthcare in Dallas Next Week at INVEST Digital Health appeared first on MedCity News.
ST. LOUIS — Lying on top of an operating room table with his chest exposed, Larry Black Jr. was moments away from having his organs harvested when a doctor ran breathlessly into the room. “Get him off the table,” the doctor recalled telling the surgical team at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital as the…
FDA leaders under President Donald Trump are moving to abandon a decades-old policy of asking outside experts to review drug applications, a move critics say would shield the agency’s decisions from public scrutiny. The agency “would like to get away” from assembling panels of experts to examine and vote on individual drugs, because “I don’t…
New moms all over social media are breaking down their incredibly expensive hospital bills after giving birth. So why is giving birth so pricey in the U.S.? And given the Trump administration’s anti-abortion, pro-natalist policies, is anything on the table to make having a child more affordable? KFF Health News video producer Hannah Norman spoke…
By KIM BELLARD I’m always on the lookout for advances in healthcare that seem more like 22st century medicine than what we still experience in 2025. Way too much of it seems less advanced than we should be expecting in a world of AI, genetic engineering, nanobots, and the like. I often think of the…
A paper in Value in Health by Grueger, Martin and Sullivan (2025) provides some lessons. Together with widespread digitalization of drug compendia (price lists), IRP led to a rapid convergence of list prices across Europe. Although prices often spread ±50% from the average price for drugs first launched in the EU in 1997, this narrowed…