Prior KFF analysis allocated CBO’s federal Medicaid spending reductions and enrollment losses across the states, and this policy watch builds on that analysis to examine the potential impacts in expansion states compared with non-expansion states.
Running a behavioral health practice requires balancing patient volume and case diversity, while maintaining operations. Transparent practice policies are necessary for success and ensuring high-quality, consistent patient care. The post 4 Practice Policies that Help Maintain Behavioral Health Practice Success appeared first on MedCity News.
The FDA has rehired at least some workers tasked with releasing public records generated by the agency’s regulatory activities, two employees said. The recall reverses firings carried out roughly a month ago by the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the agency. Workers who process records about medical device and tobacco regulation under…
The legislative deadlock over ACA subsidies would leave many middle-income households facing higher premiums
ST. PAUL, Minn. — High school senior Joshua Yang understands sacrifice. When he was midway through 10th grade, his mom survived a terrible car crash. But her body developed tremors, and she lost mobility. After countless appointments, doctors diagnosed her with Parkinson’s disease, saying it was likely triggered by brain injuries sustained in the wreck….
The super connector and super intelligent Emily Peters, (who has quite her own patient adventure story–tl:dr GO GIVE BLOOD) and has written several books including Artists Remaking Medicine, is working on another one called Money Remaking Medicine. She invited me on a show called the Positive Deviants Detectives which is kind of a book club…
Avandra Imaging, a federated network for de-identified imaging data, emerged from stealth at HLTH — as well as announced a partnership with Datavant. The post Avandra Imaging Emerges from Stealth to Solve a Last-Mile Problem in Medical Research appeared first on MedCity News.
On this blog we most often talk about health care issues related to chronic and acute conditions, health behaviors and public health. However, there is another dimension that is vital to health: avoiding natural disasters. Unfortunately, natural disasters appear to having an increasing impact in the US across the past decades. Between 1980-2024, 16,941 people…
Shared savings programs are appealing in theory, but the incentives are too weak and unpredictable to support a scalable business model for hospitals, said Patrick Runnels, chief medical officer of University Hospitals. The post Why Shared Savings Still Isn’t a Viable Business Model for Hospitals appeared first on MedCity News.
Called coordn8, solution automates the intake and filing of faxed documents into the EHR and allows patients to digitally give consent