5 Key Facts About Immigrants and Medicaid
This brief provides five key facts on Medicaid and immigrants as context for understanding the potential impacts of policy changes under the Trump administration.
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Aetna Taps InStride Health for Specialty Youth Mental Health
By working with Aetna, more than 90% of commercial lives in Massachusetts and Connecticut now have access to InStride Health’s services. The post Aetna Taps InStride Health for Specialty Youth Mental Health appeared first on MedCity News.
The Vibe at ViVE: Fresh, or Fairly Ripe, This Year?
A feeling of greater realism has seemed present at ViVE25 in Nashville this week
Prioritizing Care That Cures – Fighting the Epidemic With Opioid Treatment Programs
Policymakers should recognize the advantages of this multi-faceted care model and ensure legislative and regulatory environments allow for its continued growth. The post Prioritizing Care That Cures – Fighting the Epidemic With Opioid Treatment Programs appeared first on MedCity News.
Republicans Are Eyeing Cuts to Medicaid. What’s Medicaid, Again?
In January, during a congressional hearing on his way to becoming secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got basic details wrong about Medicaid — a program he now oversees. He said that Medicaid is fully funded by the federal government (it’s not) and that many enrollees are unsatisfied…
The Covid ‘Contrarians’ Are in Power. We Still Haven’t Hashed Out Whether They Were Right.
In October, Stanford University professor Jay Bhattacharya hosted a conference on the lessons of covid-19 in order “to do better in the next pandemic.” He invited scholars, journalists, and policy wonks who, like him, have criticized the U.S. management of the crisis as overly draconian. Bhattacharya also invited public health authorities who had considered his…
Patients Are NPCs
By KIM BELLARD I found a new way to think about patients in an opinion piece by Ezra Klein: they’re NPCs. For those of you unfamiliar with gaming, NPCs are those characters in video games that aren’t controlled by live players; they’re part of the game, serving as background for the actions the actual players…
LLM in HEOR: An evaluation framework
Health economics and outcomes research has already started to use AI tools such as large language models (LLM) across a diverse set of study types, including systematic literature reviews (SLR), health economic modelling (HEM) and real-world evidence (RWE). In SLRs, LLMs can assist with abstract and full-text screening, bias assessment, data extraction, and automating meta-analysis…
RFK Jr. Gives First Speech to HHS Staff, Focusing on His Priorities
Five days after taking the oath of his office, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressed HHS staffers
What Sets 2025’s Digital Health Funding Environment Apart from Previous Years?
This year, venture capitalists in the digital health landscape have many more quality investment opportunities than they did in the past couple years, according to Oak HC/FT Partner Billy Deitch. He noted that many startups have been preserving the capital over the past two years with the plan to raise funds in 2025. The post…