The ongoing debate over the U.S. health system shouldn’t be based on whether the government or the private sector is the dominant player, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban said this week. The bigger issue, he said, is whether the system’s participants are transparent about what they charge and what they pay. “I’m not opposed to single-payer…
By DAVID INTROCASO Last month the House Energy and Commerce and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committees passed three hospital price transparency (price T) bills by a combined vote 90-22. Afterward, HELP Chair, Dr. Bill Cassidy, stated he was ‘optimistic” and “confident” price T legislation would be enacted by the Congress this session….
SCAN Health Plan and Costco are partnering to provide a suite of insurance products for seniors. The post SCAN, Costco Launch Medicare Partnership appeared first on MedCity News.
This issue brief uses data from KFF’s 2025-2026 survey of Medicaid directors and from a proposed rule on provider taxes to describe states’ current provider taxes, explore how rules governing provider taxes are changing because of the 2025 reconciliation law and the regulations implementing that law, and summarizes which changes may affect each state.
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical’s Genglycos received accelerated FDA approval for glycogen storage disease type Ia, an inherited enzyme deficiency. It’s also the first approved gene therapy for Ultragenyx, which specializes in rare disease treatments. The post Ultragenyx Gene Therapy Becomes First FDA-Approved Treatment for Ultra-Rare Disease appeared first on MedCity News.
‘The basics that we learned about in security are 10 times more important in an agentic world,’ Anthropic’s Rob Bair tells CHAI’s AI Cybersecurity Work Group
After years working with CHCs, John Torontow, M.D., M.Ph., sees value-based care as more than a payment strategy. He argues it is an opportunity to make the health centers’ often-invisible work measurable, recognized and financially sustainable.
Why the flood of consumer wellness devices demands clear boundaries between lifestyle improvement and clinical diagnostics The post The Imperative of Distinguishing Medical-Grade Devices from Wellness Tech appeared first on MedCity News.
As adoption accelerates, organizations must ensure that the use of AI strengthens and not weakens accountability and patient safety. The post AI in Pharmacovigilance: Why Governance Will Define Success appeared first on MedCity News.
Ohio health system, acquired by General Catalyst, reveals list of vendor partners, including Aidoc, Clarium, Commure, Fabric, and Transparent