Since the Nov. 5 deadline passed for states to apply for their shares of the new $50 billion federal Rural Health Transformation Program funding, officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have declined to publicly release the applications. Federal officials are using those submissions, most of them more than 100 pages long, to decide how to divide the…
Tech partners play an important role in scaling AI effectively and responsibly – without compromising patient trust. The post Building Smarter, Safer Healthcare: The Role of Tech Partners in AI Adoption appeared first on MedCity News.
The go-to mechanisms for differential payment – network design, case management, quality measurement and prior authorization – increasingly rely on APIs capable of handling not only claims data but, more importantly, the clinical data critical to intelligent decision-making. The post Modern Interoperability: How APIs Can Heal a Fragmented System appeared first on MedCity News.
The Trump administration is touting its $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program as the largest-ever U.S. investment in rural health care. But the government made minimal mention of Native American tribes in sparsely populated areas and in need of significant improvements to health care access. Federally recognized tribes can’t directly apply for a share of…
As health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wields one of the louder megaphones the federal government has. Yet he insists he doesn’t want to impose his opinions on Americans. “I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me,” Kennedy told a Democratic congressman in May. Kennedy once expressed different views…
If the amount they pay in premiums doubled, about one in three enrollees in Affordable Care Act Marketplace health plans say they would be “very likely” to look for a lower-premium Marketplace plan (with higher deductibles and co-pays) and one in four would “very likely” go without insurance next year, finds a new survey of…
This survey explores how ACA Marketplace enrollees expect to respond if their premium payments doubled as expected in 2026 when enhanced premium tax credits are set to expire. About a third would very likely look for a lower-cost plan, even if it had higher deductibles, and about a quarter would very likely end up uninsured….
Philips showcased two major imaging innovations at RSNA 2025 — one a CT system that integrates AI into its hardware, and the other a new helium-free MRI model that embeds AI directly into signal acquisition. Both aim to improve image quality, efficiency and ease of integration — but commercial availability and real-world adoption are still…
Pharvaris’s deucrictibant met the main and secondary goals of its Phase 3 test as an on-demand treatment for swelling attacks caused by the rare disease hereditary angioedema. Pharvaris’s capsule could compete against Kalvista Pharmaceuticals’ Ekterly, an HAE pill approved by the FDA over the summer. The post Pharvaris Drug for Rare Swelling Disease Meets Phase…
Health tech companies made several major funding announcements in November. Here is a list of some of the biggest funding rounds. The post 4 Notable Health Tech Funding Announcements in November appeared first on MedCity News.