UH Group replaces its CEO, the payer’s alleged nursing home practices, the future of pharmacy benefit managers, and the healthcare implications of the budget bill are part of the latest episode of the Debunked Podcast with MedCity News Editor-in-Chief Arundhati Parmar and Samir Batra, managing partner of Health Innovation Pitch. The post Debunked Episode 16:…
This brief provides an overview of the FY26 budget request for domestic HIV and compares it to funding levels in the FY25 continuing resolution.
In this JAMA Health Forum column, Larry Levitt highlights how the Make America Healthy Again agenda aimed at chronic disease does little to address the affordability of health care and that efforts to lower federal spending on health care may worsen the problem, raising out-of-pocket costs for many people with Medicaid and Affordable Care Act…More
Behavioral health doesn’t need tech that replaces people. It needs technology that respects them, amplifying what clinicians do best and helping more people get the care they deserve. The post The Behavioral Health AI Boom Is Real. So Are the Risks appeared first on MedCity News.
Healthcare technology has shifted from a back-office function to a strategic imperative. This evolution presents a powerful opportunity to redefine organizations’ futures. The post A CIO’s Guide to Scalable Patient Data Management appeared first on MedCity News.
[Sponsored] Provider data issues start at enrollment and continue throughout the provider lifecycle, impacting everything from credentialing to the provider directory. ProviderTrust’s new guide explores this topic. The post Healthcare’s Provider Data Challenges appeared first on MedCity News.
ST. LOUIS — Violent crime was already trending down from a covid-era spike when President Donald Trump presented a picture of unbridled crime in America on the campaign trail in 2024. Now his administration has eliminated about $500 million in grants to organizations that buttress public safety, including many working to prevent gun violence. In…
By KIM BELLARD So the House has passed their “big, beautiful bill,” by the narrowest of margins. Crucial to the bill are large savings from Medicaid, which in past years Republicans would have taken some glee from but now they are careful to explain away as just cutting “waste, fraud and abuse,” having finally realized…
Lucet, a behavioral health company, is acquiring home care company Emcara Health to offer integrated care models. The post Lucet to Acquire Home Care Company Emcara Health appeared first on MedCity News.
If enacted, the GOP’s spending bill would kick more than 10 million Americans off Medicaid. Experts are worried about the major spike in uncompensated care that hospitals would have to provide — and they’re warning that this change will result in major revenue losses for hospitals, facility closures, higher premiums for commercially insured patients, and…