KFF Health News Washington health policy reporter Amanda Seitz discussed Affordable Care Act open enrollment uncertainty on Houston Public Media’s “Hello Houston” on Oct. 30. Click here to watch Seitz on “Hello Houston.” Read Seitz and Julie Appleby’s “A Ticking Clock: How States Are Preparing for a Last-Minute Obamacare Deal.” KFF Health News senior correspondent…
Special thanks to Joe Paduda to bringing back the best review of health wonkery on the web. Joe writes: Way back in the day Julie Ferguson and I came up with the idea of working with other health care bloggers to publish the best of each every couple of weeks…after a decade-long run we suspended it…
Eli Lilly’s LillyDirect platform is partnering with Walmart to let patients pick up prescriptions for its GLP-1 drug Zepbound at Walmart pharmacies, expanding access beyond home delivery. The post LillyDirect Taps Walmart for First Retail Pick-Up Option for Zepbound appeared first on MedCity News.
The Trump administration’s overhaul of the nation’s largest food assistance program will cause millions of people to lose benefits, strain state budgets, and pressure the nation’s food supply chain, all while likely hindering the goals of the administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” platform, according to researchers and former federal officials. Permanent changes to the Supplemental…
Saturday is the day that nearly 24 million customers can start purchasing health plans on healthcare.gov and the state-run Obamacare exchanges. Higher prices and uncertainty await many of those shoppers. Average premiums are expected to more than double. The directors who manage marketplace enrollment in states including Maryland, California, Pennsylvania, and Idaho told me and my colleague Julie Appleby that people are wondering how they’ll scrape together hundreds — or even thousands — of dollars more next year to pay for these…
October has seen a slew of executive hires, exits and layoffs across the healthcare industry. For instance, Eli Lilly, CommonSpirit Health and HLM Venture Partners welcomed new executives. There were also layoffs at organizations including Genentech and Jefferson Health. The post Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires, Exits and Layoffs appeared first on MedCity…
The FDA clinical hold covers two Phase 3 studies for nexiguran ziclumeran, or nex-z, an experimental gene-editing therapy for transthyretin amyloidosis. Nex-z uses the CRISPR gene-editing technology to inactivate the gene that codes for the protein driving this rare disease. The post Liver Complications Lead FDA to Stop Tests of Intellia Gene-Editing Therapy for a…
To better understand how states are preparing for Medicaid work requirements, states were asked to discuss anticipated challenges to implementing work requirements by the end of 2026, including related system changes and data matching.
We must work together across the care continuum to establish both local and network-trusted identity data management capabilities that can unify patient data across fragmented data silos at both the database layer and the front-end digital and physical access layer. The post Creating Exceptional Patient Experiences Starts with Identity Intelligence appeared first on MedCity News.
It’s not the flashiest technologies or rapid-speed AI breakthroughs that can do it. It’s the technologies laser-focused on the unglamorous but all-consuming coordination problems that suck up medical staff’s time, stress them out, and compromise patient care. The post Innovation Fatigue is Rampant: What’s the Rx to Fix It? appeared first on MedCity News.