That is the title of a paper I published today in Journal of Market Access & Health Policy with co-authors by Karim EI-Kersh, Nadine Zawadzki, Catelyn Coyle, Shurui Zhang, Dhruv Dalal, Anna Watzker, and Dominik Lautsch. The abstract is below: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and cancer share high mortality and complex prognoses. Due to PAH’s…
Bayer’s asundexian, a Factor XIa inhibitor, reduced the risk of secondary stroke by 26% without increasing bleeding risk in a Phase 3 clinical trial. The once-daily pill is at the front of an emerging class of medicines that includes drug candidates from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and partners Bristol Myers Squibb and Johnson & Johnson. The post…
This issue brief explains why it can be misleading to compare the first year of Rural Health Transformation Program allocations with estimated Medicaid cuts, which will be implemented on a gradual basis and not fully take effect until 2027, after the rural health fund is exhausted.
La decisión del gobierno de Trump de dar a funcionarios encargados de deportaciones acceso a los datos de Medicaid está poniendo a los hospitales y a estados en un aprieto, ya que deben decidir si advierten a sus pacientes inmigrantes que toda su información personal, incluida la dirección de su casa, podría utilizarse para expulsarlos…
When AI is honest and acts as a connector in healthcare workflows, clinician time is freed up, accuracy is ensured, and revenue is protected. The post Keeping Honest in Healthcare: Engineering Accountability into AI appeared first on MedCity News.
The real value of AI in post-acute care is not how quickly it can process documents, but whether it can provide foresight. That means understanding how clinical indicators, regulatory requirements, and reimbursement rules interact, and identifying risk before it turns into a denial or an audit finding. The post The Critical Challenges Facing Post-Acute Care…
Listen: More than 2 million Americans could benefit from PrEP, but only about a quarter of them are getting the HIV prevention medication. On Feb. 4, during WAMU’s “Health Hub,” KFF Health News reporter Zach Dyer shared tips for overcoming common hurdles to care. Billing mistakes. Stigma. Doctors who aren’t keeping up with the latest…
The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is putting hospitals and states in a bind as they weigh whether to alert immigrant patients that their personal information, including home addresses, could be used in efforts to remove them from the country. Warning patients could deter them from signing up for…
In the weeks after the Trump administration reduced the number of recommended childhood vaccines for routine use, the public’s trust in the CDC remains at its lowest point. Among those who have heard about the recent changes to the recommended childhood vaccine schedule, more say they expect the changes to have a negative impact than…