What Privacy and Protection Standards are in Place for Medicaid Enrollees’ Personal Data?
This policy watch discusses the data privacy protections in Medicaid and the implications of breaches or violations of those protections.
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The Overlooked Global Warming Cost We Can’t Ignore
Climate change not only impacts patients with respiratory allergies, but it also has potential broad and emerging impacts on patients with food allergies and overall public health. The post The Overlooked Global Warming Cost We Can’t Ignore appeared first on MedCity News.
The Medicaid Reckoning: Era of Fiscal and Policy Flux
The resilience of Medicaid lies in its complexity. It has resisted large-scale restructuring because it is interwoven with public and private delivery systems. That same complexity now demands a different kind of legal engagement. Medicaid is no longer a silo, but a system-defining platform. The post The Medicaid Reckoning: Era of Fiscal and Policy Flux…
Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.
Kim Beckham, an insurance agent in Victoria, Texas, had seen friends suffer so badly from shingles that she wanted to receive the first approved shingles vaccine as soon as it became available, even if she had to pay for it out-of-pocket. Her doctor and several pharmacies turned her down because she was below the recommended…
Federal Proposals Threaten Provider Taxes, Key Source of Medicaid Funding for States
Republican efforts to restrict taxes on hospitals, health plans, and other providers that states use to help fund their Medicaid programs could strip them of tens of billions of dollars. The move could shrink access to health care for some of the nation’s poorest and most vulnerable people, warn analysts, patient advocates, and Democratic political…
Dr Kimmie Ng discusses young onset colorectal cancer
Dr Kimmie Ng discusses cancer with Dr. George Beauregard. Dr Ng heads the Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer Center, at the legendary Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and she treated George’s son who died age 32. Why are these cancers in younger people increasing so quickly? What can we do about it? What is connecting the environment, the…
New Cohere Health Solution Aims to Streamline Clinical Reviews for Payers
Cohere Health introduced a new tool for payers called Review Assist. It is meant to support health plan clinical staff with prior authorization reviews and other use cases. The post New Cohere Health Solution Aims to Streamline Clinical Reviews for Payers appeared first on MedCity News.
Precision Medicine Firm Caris Breaks Bio IPO Drought, Raising $494M for Cancer Analysis Tools
Caris Life Sciences applies AI and machine learning to patient samples to detect cancer and as a companion diagnostic guiding the use of targeted cancer therapies. As a commercial-stage company, Caris’s upsized public markets debut is an outlier amid the continuing IPO freeze for clinical-stage biotechs developing new drugs. The post Precision Medicine Firm Caris…
Living Without Health Insurance? We Want To Hear From You
Millions of Americans lack health insurance, and health policy researchers expect many more will lose coverage due to policies pushed by the Trump administration and GOP-controlled Congress. KFF Health News is documenting this moment, the first explicit rollback of health coverage since the advent of the modern U.S. health system in the early 20th century,…
Why Intermountain Health Is Investing In AI for Clinical Data Abstraction
Intermountain Health is deploying Layer Health’s AI engine for clinical data abstraction across several of its patient registries. The health system’s venture capital arm is also making a strategic investment in the startup. The post Why Intermountain Health Is Investing In AI for Clinical Data Abstraction appeared first on MedCity News.