CMS: More Flexible Plan Choices for Medicare Beneficiaries
The 2027 Medicare updates aim to improve transparency and patient outcomes by refining Star Ratings
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Global Health Funding in the FY 2027 President’s Budget Request
This budget summary provides an analysis of global health funding amounts provided in the President’s FY 2027 budget request.
CMS Proposes New Transparency Measures to Strengthen Oversight of Hospice Providers
The proposed rule includes unannounced site visits, revocations of non-compliant hospices, and a new icon on Medicare.gov to flag providers not meeting quality reporting standards
Sentara Sees Progress With Behavioral Health Navigator Program
New role guides patients through assessment, stabilization and follow-up coordination and connects them to community-based resources
A Closer Look at California’s Plans to Implement Work Requirements While Facing Major Budget Shortfalls Amid Cuts in Federal Medicaid Funding
This issue brief examines California’s Medicaid work requirement implementation plans to provide initial insight into how California is preparing to implement work requirements amid projected state budget shortfalls and changes in the 2025 reconciliation law.
La búsqueda de Trump de inscritos indocumentados en Medicaid arroja muy pocos infractores
En agosto pasado, como parte de la ofensiva del gobierno federal contra las personas en el país sin papeles, la administración Trump envió a los estados los nombres de cientos de miles de inscritos en Medicaid, con la orden de determinar si no eran elegibles por su estatus migratorio. Pero, siete meses después, los resultados de cinco…
From Data Ownership to Learning Velocity in Direct-to-Consumer Healthcare
As commercialization increasingly reflects direct engagement dynamics, differentiation depends less on the volume of data controlled and more on the speed at which systems incorporate feedback. The post From Data Ownership to Learning Velocity in Direct-to-Consumer Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
Not All Hospitals Have Equal Resources — Knowledge Sharing Can Help Level the Playing Field
Resource-sharing across large networks of hospitals allows people to receive a higher quality of care across the country, regardless of where they live or how well-resourced their local health system may be. The post Not All Hospitals Have Equal Resources — Knowledge Sharing Can Help Level the Playing Field appeared first on MedCity News.
Athenahealth Adding Agentic AI Patient Engagement Features
Ambulatory EHR vendor says offering patients 24/7 access to front-office AI agents will enable text and chat features as well as enhanced self-scheduling
Científicos de Estados Unidos secuencian 1.000 genomas del sarampión, eliminado durante años gracias a las vacunas
Los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés) acaban de publicar en línea por primera vez una gran cantidad de datos genéticos detallados de los virus del sarampión que circularon el año pasado. Científicos familiarizados con el proceso esperan que los CDC publiquen muchos más datos en…