SACRAMENTO, California.— Seis años después de asumir el cargo prometiendo ser el “gobernador de la salud” de California, el demócrata Gavin Newsom ha destinado decenas de miles de millones de dólares de fondos públicos a servicios de la red de seguridad para los residentes más necesitados del estado, mientras diseña reglas para hacer que la…
We must think beyond one-size-fits-all solutions and embrace the diversity of obstructive sleep apnea. This means continuing to innovate, collaborating across sectors, and keeping patients at the center of every decision. The post A New Era in OSA: Bridging the Gap with Novel Treatment Solutions appeared first on MedCity News.
Contingency management is an evidence-based psychosocial intervention that uses motivational incentives, such as vouchers or gift cards, to encourage recovery behaviors like stimulant abstinence and treatment session (e.g., cognitive behavioral therapy, group therapy) attendance. The Biden administration has approved four state contingency management waivers (California, Delaware, Montana, and Washington); three additional state contingency management requests…
Trends in ICHRA adoption, product innovation, and regulatory developments signal that this benefits model isn’t just here to stay — it’s poised to help redefine how we think about employer-sponsored healthcare. The post 2025 Outlook: Significant Investments in ICHRA Signal Changes Ahead appeared first on MedCity News.
This first of a two-part article examines key challenges healthcare technology companies must address to survive the “Death Valley” curve and increase their chances for success when moving from technology development to market acceptance. The post Market Acceptance: Key Considerations for Health Tech appeared first on MedCity News.
A new report from Relatient, A Data-Driven Guide to Patient Access Succes, highlights how focusing on data accuracy and relevance can enhance the performance of healthcare practices. It also shows which types of patient access data to leverage to drive performance improvements in healthcare organizations. The post Using Data to Help Healthcare Practices Succeed appeared…
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…