CMS Launches $50 Billion Rural Health Transformation Program
The $50 billion program funding will be distributed to approved states over five years
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Medicaid’s Housing Problem Isn’t Placement — It’s What Happens Next
If we focus only on placement, we will continue to see cycles of progress and regression. If we focus on stability — on what happens after the keys are handed over — we have an opportunity to change those trajectories more permanently. The post Medicaid’s Housing Problem Isn’t Placement — It’s What Happens Next appeared…
Obamacare: el impacto de los costos en las inscripciones no se conocerá hasta dentro de varios meses
Más personas de las que se esperaba se inscribieron este año en los planes de seguro médico de la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (ACA, por sus siglas en inglés), a pesar de la fuerte reducción de los subsidios para pagar las primas. Pero esos números no son tan simples: aún queda…
Questions for the America First Global Health Strategy
Authored by KFF’s Jen Kates and Boston University’s Debbie Stenoien and Allyala Nandakumar as well as independent consultant Michael Ruffner, this post for ThinkGlobalHealth identifies and examines several key issues and questions that lie ahead for the America First Global Health Strategy — the first roadmap for what comes next for the President’s Emergency Plan…
Culina Health Snags $7.9M to Expand Access to Nutrition Care
Culina Health’s Series A round was led by Healthworx, the investment arm of insurer CareFirst. It also included participation from Rethink Impact, Collab Capital, Collide Capital, Vamos Ventures, Tensility Venture Partners, Cake Ventures and GW Ventures. The post Culina Health Snags $7.9M to Expand Access to Nutrition Care appeared first on MedCity News.
Medicaid Cuts Could Have Vast Ripple Effects in This Rural Colorado Community
In southern Colorado’s San Luis Valley, clouds billow above the towering mountains of the Sangre de Cristo range. A chorus of blackbirds whistle as they flit among the reeds of a wildlife refuge. Big, circular fields of crops, interspersed with native shrubs, give it a feel of bucolic quiet. But amid the stark beauty in…
In the Affordability Alphabet Soup of the ACA and EHBs, a Link to Higher Premiums Isn’t Clear-Cut
When President Donald Trump unveiled his one-page outline to address health care spending, dubbed “The Great Healthcare Plan,” he specifically mentioned the Affordable Care Act’s role in driving up costs. “I call it the unaffordable care act,” he said. He reprised the line in his 2026 State of the Union address, blaming “the crushing cost…
UnitedHealth’s Next Big Business Line? It Could Be AI Tools and Services
From tools to help payers and providers manage claims and setting up a consulting subsidiary, the healthcare giant has ambitious aims to deploy its technology gains outside Optum’s walls.
Private Medicare, Medicaid Plans Exaggerate In-Network Mental Health Options, Watchdogs Say
Companies running private Medicare and Medicaid insurance plans inaccurately list many mental health professionals as being available to treat the plans’ members, a new federal watchdog report says. The investigators allege that some insurers effectively set up “ghost networks” of psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals who purportedly have agreed to treat patients covered…
Stop Presenting at Health-Tech Buyers — Let Them Drive
Winning in health-tech is about giving buyers enough operational clarity, early enough, that they can say yes with confidence rather than saying yes because the alternative is another six months of the same evaluation cycle. The post Stop Presenting at Health-Tech Buyers — Let Them Drive appeared first on MedCity News.