This brief explains the potential impacts of the elimination of diversity and disparities-related initiatives under the Trump administration on racial health disparities.
The serial entrepreneur and CEO of Transcarent has dismissed care navigation companies in the past. What led him to buy Accolade, the biggest — though struggling — name in navigation? The post Is Glen Tullman a Hypocrite or a Victim of the System He Aimed to Disrupt? appeared first on MedCity News.
Forget repeal and replace. Critics of the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, have a new target: key parts of the law that they say are too costly and provide incentive for fraud. Topping that list are the ACA’s enhanced subsidies, put in place during the coronavirus pandemic as part of economic recovery legislation and set to…
It’s time to replace this system with one that works for patients and invites disruption. We need to put control back in the hands of patients, allowing them to own their health records, make independent decisions, and switch to fair and transparent alternatives. The post The End of Corporate-Controlled Care? AI and Patient Access Fuel…
There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.” ― Frédéric Bastiat
The Teva Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi drug, duvakitug, showed statistically significant and clinically meaningful results in a Phase 2b study in ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. The drug is part of an emerging class of therapies that target TL1A, a protein involved in signaling that drives inflammation. The post Teva and Sanofi Mid-Stage Data Reveal Shows…
The 32BJ Labor Industry Cooperation Fund recently unveiled two new tools for employers and unions: the Healthcare Savings Calculator and a model contract template. The post 32BJ Labor Industry Cooperation Fund Launches New Tools to Reduce Costs for Employers appeared first on MedCity News.
Under the Senate-passed reconciliation bill, federal Medicaid spending in rural areas is estimated to decline by $155 billion, more than in the House-passed bill, and far more than the $50 billion appropriated for the rural health fund.
OMNY Health — a national data ecosystem that facilitates biotech and medical research — launched a data network consisting of EHR data from more than 645,000 GLP-1 users. The data network seeks to give OMNY’s life sciences and health system partners a vast source of GLP-1 data that is related to patient demographics and social…
Las máximas autoridades en estadísticas del cáncer de Estados Unidos pronto deberán clasificar el sexo de los pacientes estrictamente como hombre, mujer o desconocido, un cambio que, según científicos y defensores de pacientes, afectará negativamente la salud de la población transgénero, una de las más marginadas del país. Médicos y activistas por los derechos de…