The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday issued new regulations barring medical debts from American credit reports, enacting a major new consumer protection just days before President Joe Biden is set to leave office. The rules ban credit agencies from including medical debts on consumers’ credit reports and prohibit lenders from considering medical information…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Six years after he entered office vowing to be California’s “health care governor,” Democrat Gavin Newsom has steered tens of billions in public funding to safety net services for the state’s neediest residents while engineering rules to make health care more accessible and affordable for all Californians. More than a million California…
Joey Ballard is an internal medicine resident at the University of Illinois-Chicago. He wrote to “An Arm and a Leg” about a resolution the American Medical Association recently adopted calling on hospitals to do more to make sure patients who qualify for charity care get it. And that legislators and regulators make sure that’s happening….
By JEFF GOLDSMITH In late June, 2024, two economists, Zarek Brot-Goldberg and Zack Cooper, from the University of Chicago and Yale respectively, released an economic analysis arguing that hospital mergers damage local economies and result in an increase in deaths by suicide and drug overdoses in the markets where mergers occur. Funded by Arnold Ventures…
When conducting evidence synthesis, many individuals use the PICO framework. PICO stands for population; intervention; comparator(s); and outcome. This helps to describe the research question that the evidence synthesis aims to answer. However, recently Remiro‐Azócar (2024) proposed PICOSI framework. PICOSI stands for: PopulationInterventionComparator(s)OutcomesSummary effect measure; Intercurrent events In fact, Canada’s Drug Agency’s (CDA) recent draft…
To solve the physician shortage problem, healthcare providers must work hard to differentiate themselves as physician employers, according to experts from consulting firm EY. Some strategies include adopting the right AI tools and participating in value-based care models. The post How Providers Can Differentiate Themselves as Physician Employers Among Workforce Shortages appeared first on MedCity…
Families USA led a letter urging the new Congress, which was sworn in on Jan. 3, to protect Medicaid. The post Over 300 Organizations Call on New Congress to Safeguard and Strengthen Medicaid appeared first on MedCity News.
This brief reports on community health center patients, services, experiences, and financing in 2023 and analyzes changes from 2019 (pre-pandemic) through 2023 using data from the Uniform Data System (UDS) and the 2022 Health Center Patient Survey.
Orbis Medicines’ Series A round of funding was led by New Enterprise Associates. The startup is developing oral macrocyclic drugs for targets validated by blockbuster biologic medications that must be administered by injection. The post A Startup’s €90M Financing for Oral Peptide Drugs Includes Backing from Eli Lilly appeared first on MedCity News.
Crothall Healthcare’s dedication to patient care took on new meaning this past Veteran’s Day, reaching military veterans living with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) through the thoughtful donation of personal hygiene kits. Crothall’s unique Power of Clean approach is designed to create a clinically safe environment, achieve HCAHPS cleanliness goals, and address both the reality and…