A systemic change from FFS to VBC would represent more than a payment model switch, but rather a holistic transition toward patient-centered healthcare that prioritizes outcomes over activity. The post From Fee-for-Service to Value-Based Care: Enhancing Outcomes in Nephrology appeared first on MedCity News.
CVS Health overtook Walgreens as the most popular drugstore retailer, a new report found. However, there is no saying for sure if CVS will keep this lead. The post Who is Winning the Retail Pharmacy Consumer Battle? appeared first on MedCity News.
The privatization of Medicare has been taking place without much public debate – a trend that has implications for the 68 million people covered by Medicare, health care providers, Medicare spending, and taxpayers. It’s not yet clear whether the administration will promote policies to accelerate the privatization of Medicare or focus more on achieving efficiencies…
This analysis examines the potential impacts on states and Medicaid enrollees of implementing a per capita cap on the federal share of Medicaid spending for the ACA Medicaid expansion population only, which is another proposal that has been discussed by members of Congress.
Earlier this month Sachin Jain, CEO of SCAN Health Plan, a nonprofit Medicare Advantage company, provided some refreshing straight talk on what is wrong with MA while stressing that it is far better than traditional Medicare for seniors. The post Medicare Advantage CEO: My Baby is Ugly…(video) appeared first on MedCity News.
“An Arm and a Leg” updates a popular episode from 2019 — a story about giving. In 1980, a young father named Denny Buehler was battling leukemia and needed to travel from Ohio to Seattle for treatment. To raise money for the trip, his friends and family organized a softball tournament. Denny passed away a…
By MIKE MAGEE For those prepared to take a deep breath and relax in the aftermath of the MAGA induced assault on the First Amendment that whipsawed Disney leadership last week as they abandoned and then rescued Jimmy Kimmel, be advised reproductive health access is at the top of the list when it comes to…
Sumana Reddy, a primary care physician, struggles on thin financial margins to run Acacia Family Medical Group, the small independent practice she founded 27 years ago in Salinas, a predominantly Latino city in an agricultural valley often called “the salad bowl of the world.” Reddy can’t match the salaries offered by larger health systems —…
A large study from Massachusetts has found that babies whose mothers had covid-19 while pregnant were slightly more likely to have a range of neurodevelopmental diagnoses by age 3. Most of these children had speech or motor delays, and the link was strongest in boys and when the mother was infected late in pregnancy. The…
In this issue, we take a closer look at the reliability of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots as a source of health information. We explore public opinion on chatbot accuracy based on KFF surveys and highlight recent examples of AI-generated election misinformation in the news. In addition, we share our firsthand experience querying AI chatbots on…