MedPAC Grapples with Higher Cost of Medicare Advantage to Taxpayers
Commission says reforms are needed to address relatively higher levels of payment stemming largely from coding intensity and favorable selection
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Health and Health Care Among Adults with Previous Experiences of Homelessness: Findings from the KFF Survey on Racism, Discrimination, and Health
This report examines the circumstances and health needs of adults who report previous experiences with homelessness. Analysis of KFF’s Racism, Discrimination, and Health survey finds that people who have experienced homelessness have disproportionate health needs and face great socioeconomic challenges than those who have never experienced homelessness.
Why Your Patients Are Leaving and How to Stop It
[Sponsored] Patient expectations continue to evolve, and healthcare practices that fail to adapt risk more than just revenue—they risk losing trust. The post Why Your Patients Are Leaving and How to Stop It appeared first on MedCity News.
Rising Healthcare Costs: What Employers Are Doing to Manage Expenses, Per Mercer
To deal with rising costs, employers are leveraging high performance networks, variable copay plans and exclusive provider organization plans. The post Rising Healthcare Costs: What Employers Are Doing to Manage Expenses, Per Mercer appeared first on MedCity News.
Novartis’s $925M Anthos Acquisition Brings Back Cardio Drug That Stops Blood Clots
The Anthos Therapeutics acquisition represents a homecoming for its drug abelacimab, which originated in Novartis’s labs. The antibody offers the potential to prevent blood clots without the bleeding risks associated with currently available anticoagulants. The post Novartis’s $925M Anthos Acquisition Brings Back Cardio Drug That Stops Blood Clots appeared first on MedCity News.
Por qué se habla de discriminación racial al tomar el nivel de oxígeno
OAKLAND, California – El paciente tendría poco más de 60 años y era un hombre afroamericano con enfisema. El oxímetro colocado en la yema de su dedo registraba un nivel de saturación de oxígeno en sangre muy superior al 88%, el índice que indica un riesgo urgente de falla orgánica y muerte. Sin embargo su…
GOP Seeks to Drastically Cut Medicaid Spending — How Are Healthcare Leaders Reacting?
House Republicans introduced a proposal seeking to cut Medicaid spending by hundreds of billions of dollars. Healthcare leaders are slamming the budget plan, highlighting that it would result in millions of people losing coverage, as well as a surge in uncompensated care for providers. The post GOP Seeks to Drastically Cut Medicaid Spending — How…
HIE Survey: Labs Continue to Impede Data Exchange
Over half of health information organizations that reported impediments cited two or more reasons labs used as a basis for limiting or refusing to provide electronic health information
Pete Hudson, Alta Partners & Transcarent Investor (Part 2)
Pete Hudson is one of the OGs of digital health. As an emergency room doc he was fed up with his friends bothering him with their medical problems and he created a tool called iTriage, which helped patients figure out what condition they had, and where to go to deal with it. This was fifteen…
How Did Medicaid Renewal Outcomes Change During the Unwinding?
This policy watch uses unwinding data collected through KFF’s Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker to examine how national-level renewal outcomes changed over the course of unwinding, including changes in the share of people who had their coverage renewed or were disenrolled from Medicaid each month.