Legislation Advances to Lower Drug Costs and Enhance Federal Oversight
Legislation introduced by bipartisan members seeks to regulate pharmacy benefit managers
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Are Hospitals Procrastinating on TEAM Model Work?
Cedar Gate Technologies’ Tobin Lassen describes what hospitals chosen for the mandatory model should be focusing on before facing downside risk
Epic Is Letting Health Systems Build Their Own Agents — But Are They Ready?
Epic has unveiled its new “agent factory,” a platform that lets health systems build AI agents that are capable of orchestrating entire workflows across the EHR. The post Epic Is Letting Health Systems Build Their Own Agents — But Are They Ready? appeared first on MedCity News.
My Search for a Psychiatric Bed in an Overburdened Health System
If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.” Eight days before my 33rd birthday in April, a social worker at a crisis clinic near Denver determined I was an imminent danger to myself. She placed me on an…
CMS: ACOs in Shared Savings Program Saved Medicare $2.4B in 2024
Out of the 476 ACOs that participated in the Medicare Shared Savings Program in 2024, 75% earned $4.1 billion in performance payments, CMS reported. The post CMS: ACOs in Shared Savings Program Saved Medicare $2.4B in 2024 appeared first on MedCity News.
Advancing Care Around Diabetic Retinopathy Screening
A groundbreaking initiative leverages AI to improve the process of diabetic retinopathy screening
A Father’s Promise: Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and Addiction for My Son
To any father that’s struggling right now, know this: your past doesn’t have to write your future. Help is out there, and you can change the trajectory of your life and that of your family. The post A Father’s Promise: Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and Addiction for My Son appeared first on MedCity News.
Recent State Actions Related to Immigrants’ Access to Services and Immigration Enforcement
This brief summarizes recent and proposed actions by states related to access to state-funded health coverage and other services for immigrants and immigration enforcement activity during the 2025 and 2026 state legislative sessions.
Is Direct to Consumer (DTC) drug pricing an effective way to make drugs more affordable?
That is the topic of a recent BioSpace article titled “How Effective Will TrumpRx and Other Direct-to-Consumer Drug Pricing Initiatives Be?” A am quoted in the article as follows: While [direct-to-consumer] DTC has been a growing trend in biopharma for nearly two years now—Lilly launched LillyDirect in January 2024—the number of drugmakers looking to sell their…
Precision Medicine Firm Caris Breaks Bio IPO Drought, Raising $494M for Cancer Analysis Tools
Caris Life Sciences applies AI and machine learning to patient samples to detect cancer and as a companion diagnostic guiding the use of targeted cancer therapies. As a commercial-stage company, Caris’s upsized public markets debut is an outlier amid the continuing IPO freeze for clinical-stage biotechs developing new drugs. The post Precision Medicine Firm Caris…