CMS’ Proposed Rule Would Leave More Americans Uninsured, Health Advocacy Groups Say
“Taking away opportunities to get covered is not the way to eliminate fraud,” Young Invincibles’ director says
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Remote Patient Monitoring Works … What are Payers and Providers Waiting for?
To overcome challenges and ensure that RPM reaches its full potential, both providers and payers need to implement several key strategies — and technology is a key component to making everything easier on all organizations. The post Remote Patient Monitoring Works … What are Payers and Providers Waiting for? appeared first on MedCity News.
Univ. of California Health System’s Atul Butte to Receive AMIA’s Collen Award
AMIA notes that health system’s chief data scientist is a longtime leader in using all types of data to drive better decision making and science
Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Continues Assault on Obamacare
Millions would lose Medicaid coverage. Millions would be left without health insurance. Signing up for health plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces would be harder and more expensive. President Donald Trump’s domestic policy legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that cleared the House in May and now moves to the Senate, could also…
LLMs Have Eaten the Internet — Now They’re Starving on Themselves
The way forward isn’t bigger models. It’s smaller, smarter ones. Small Language Models (SLMs) are designed to do what LLMs can’t: learn from enterprise data and focus on specific problems. The post LLMs Have Eaten the Internet — Now They’re Starving on Themselves appeared first on MedCity News.
Florida Medical Device Maker Exactech Declares Bankruptcy
Exactech, a Florida device manufacturer that faces more than 2,000 state and federal lawsuits from patients who allege the company sold defective hip and knee implants, filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday. The Gainesville-based company said in a statement it was restructuring and would be sold to an investor group of private equity and “alternative asset”…
Health Systems Are Partnering with Reimagine Care to Improve Cancer Treatment
Memorial Hermann Health System and Moffitt Cancer Center have recently struck partnerships with Reimagine Care, a startup focused on providing support to cancer patients via an AI assistant and text messages with oncology experts. The post Health Systems Are Partnering with Reimagine Care to Improve Cancer Treatment appeared first on MedCity News.
Are private health insurers evil?
Michael Cannon makes the convincing case that the answer is a resounding ‘no’. Those who say that private health insurance companies are evil entities that profit from denying health care to patients fail to appreciate that private health insurance companies are in fact a wondrous force for good.Outrageous? Not at all. Health insurance companies get…
States Push Medicaid Work Rules, but Few Programs Help Enrollees Find Jobs
For many years, Eric Wunderlin’s health issues made it hard to find stable employment. Struggling to manage depression and diabetes, Wunderlin worked part-time, minimum-wage retail jobs around Dayton, Ohio, making so little he said he sometimes had to choose between paying rent and buying food. But in 2018, his CareSource Medicaid health plan offered him…
Their Physical Therapy Coverage Ran Out Before They Could Walk Again
Mari Villar was slammed by a car that jumped the curb, breaking her legs and collapsing a lung. Amy Paulo was in pain from a femur surgery that wasn’t healing properly. Katie Kriegshauser suffered organ failure during pregnancy, weakening her so much that she couldn’t lift her baby daughter. All went to physical therapy, but…