Nearly 1 in 4 Medicaid enrollees are eligible for the program because they are ages 65 and older or have a disability, and they have higher per-enrollee costs than other enrollees. Proposals to limit federal spending on Medicaid may create incentives for states to drop or reduce their eligibility or coverage for seniors and people…
The evolving landscape of healthcare demands that health plans continuously refine their engagement strategies, making this decision more critical than ever. Plan leaders must consider key factors, including cost, speed, scalability, and effectiveness, to guide them toward the most impactful approach. The post Navigating the Build vs. Buy Debate for Member Engagement Solutions appeared first…
[Sponsored] A Data-Driven Guide to Patient Access Success highlights how focusing on data accuracy and relevance can enhance healthcare practice performance. The post A Guide to Boosting Healthcare Practice Performance appeared first on MedCity News.
Improved automation and data-driven solutions are optimizing the patient collections process, even as providers face rising costs, shrinking reimbursements, looming changes to credit reporting, and an ongoing push toward greater efficiency. How do current solutions stack up against these challenges? Matt Hanas, Lead Product Manager at Experian Health, shares responses to some of the questions…
Greg Herbruck knew 6.5 million of his birds needed to die, and fast. But the CEO of Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch wasn’t sure how the family egg producer (one of the largest in the U.S., in business for over three generations) was going to get through it, financially or emotionally. One staffer broke down in Herbruck’s…
Valentino Valdez was given his birth certificate, his Social Security card, a T-shirt, and khaki pants when he was released from a Texas prison in 2019 at age 21. But he didn’t have health insurance, mental health medications, or access to a doctor, he said. Three years later, he landed in an inpatient hospital after…
A measles outbreak is growing in a Texas county with dangerously low vaccination rates. In late January, two school-age children from Gaines County were hospitalized with measles. Since an estimated 1 in 5 people with the disease end up in the hospital, the two cases suggested a larger outbreak. As of Feb. 6, there were…
According to the World Health Organization, “Three distinguishing features, when combined, turn mere variations or differences in health into a social inequity in health. They are systematic, socially produced (and therefore modifiable) and unfair. That is how an ISPOR Special Interest Group Report by Griffiths et al. (2025) begins. The health equity primer provides and…
Teladoc Health’s acquisition of Catapult Health will add “another channel” to funnel patients into Teladoc’s chronic care programs, according to one healthcare expert. The post Why Teladoc Health is Acquiring Catapult Health for $65M appeared first on MedCity News.
Currently available therapies for Hunter syndrome don’t cross the blood-brain barrier to address cognitive symptoms of the inherited enzyme deficiency. Denali Therapeutics’ technology gets its drug across the protective membrane, and the biotech plans to seek accelerated FDA approval in this rare disease. The post Denali’s Data in Rare Enzyme Deficiency Keep It on Pace…