it is essential that more individuals receive high-quality, evidence-based primary care. While government agencies are working towards this objective, significant efforts can also be made at the community level and by independent primary care providers. The post 4 Ways to Help Vulnerable Patients Engage with Primary Care appeared first on MedCity News.
Running a behavioral health practice requires balancing patient volume and case diversity, while maintaining operations. Transparent practice policies are necessary for success and ensuring high-quality, consistent patient care. The post 4 Practice Policies that Help Maintain Behavioral Health Practice Success appeared first on MedCity News.
Heather Cox, President of Insights & Empowerment at Zelis, talked about the company’s care coordination tools with MedCity News Reporter Katie Adams. The post MedCity Pivot Podcast: Putting a Human Touch on Healthcare Navigation and Coordination appeared first on MedCity News.
It seems simple: Require hospitals and insurers to post their negotiated prices for most health care services and — bingo — competition follows, yielding lower costs for consumers. But nearly four years after the first Trump administration’s regulations forced hospitals to post massive amounts of pricing information online, the effect on patients’ costs is unclear….
Over 6½ years ago, KFF Health News and NPR kicked off “Bill of the Month,” a crowdsourced investigation highlighting the impact of medical bills on patients. The goal was to understand how the U.S. health care system generates outsize bills and to empower patients with strategies to avoid them. We asked readers and listeners to…
Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. Solo Agers, Join the Crowd! Enjoyed your panel discussion (Watch: ‘Going It Alone’ — A Conversation About Growing Old in America, Dec. 12). I am 85, retired at 55. Traveled (birding)…
Keith Poulsen’s jaw dropped when farmers showed him images on their cellphones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in October. A livestock veterinarian at the University of Wisconsin, Poulsen had seen sick cows before, with their noses dripping and udders slack. But the scale of the farmers’ efforts to treat the sick cows stunned…
Brad Kittredge is CEO of Brightside Health, which he co-founded with CMO Mimi Winsberg. They are a large online mental health group that aims a providing more access with higher quality. They have built their own technology stack and medical group, and are in network for about 135m lives. They also take patients from the…
Executives say early signs from the experiment in both the U.S. and internationally have been positive
A study by Fermaglich and Miller (2023) evaluated trends in orphan drug designations and approvals after the Orphan Drug Act of 1983 was passed in the US. The authors use FDA data to evaluate between 1983 and 2022 and find that: Over the 40 years of the ODA, 6,340 orphan drug designations were granted, representing…