SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom will soon decide whether the most populous U.S. state will join 25 others in regulating the middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, whom many policymakers blame for the soaring cost of prescription drugs. PBMs have been under fire for years for alleged profiteering and anticompetitive conduct,…
Ballad Health, an Appalachian company with the nation’s largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly, may soon be required to improve its quality of care or face the possibility of being broken up. Government documents obtained by KFF Health News reveal that Tennessee officials, in closed-door negotiations, are attempting to hold the monopoly more accountable after years of…
What are the key elements for reporting your objective, attributes, experimental design, survey design, data collection process, econometric analysis, and results? A paper by Ride et al. (2024) conducted a Delphi Panel expert elicitation survey to create the DIRECT checklist for discrete choice experiment (DCE) studies in health. The checklist is pasted below. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40273-024-01431-6 If…
Brightside Health is expanding to serve teens ages 13 to 17. These teens can receive therapy and psychiatry services and will eventually have access to the company’s Crisis Care support. The post Brightside Health Launches Mental Health Services for Teens appeared first on MedCity News.
By TREVOR VAN MIERLO Let’s face it: for the past 25 years, digital behavioral health has struggled. Yet, we keep reinventing (and funding) the same models over and over again. How It All Started In the beginning (mid-1990s), a handful of developers, researchers, and investors envisioned high reach, lower-cost, highly tailored, anonymous interventions reaching millions…
Dashboard was developed by the VA in 2016 to highlight and optimize the treatment of patients with direct oral anticoagulants
Whether creating a health application or platform-based solutions, the effectiveness of innovation in healthtech relies not only on scientifically backed up technology, but more on consumer-driven design, highlighting the need for precision and efficiency. The post From Silos to Synergy: Integrating Clinical Teams into Agile Product Workflows appeared first on MedCity News.
Three-quarters of U.S. providers and payers say they have increased their IT spending over the past year, according to a new report from Bain & Company and KLAS Research. Both providers and payers are investing in cybersecurity technology, as well as AI tools. The post Providers and Payers Are Increasing Their Tech Spend — Where…
Of the plans winning five stars, three were commercial and two were Medicare plans; two were Kaiser Permanente’s
Bain & Co./KLAS Research survey finds 75% of providers and payers have increased IT investments