As specialty therapies expand and chronic conditions rise, infusion services must be viewed as both clinically intensive and deeply human. The post A Playbook for Modern Ambulatory Infusion Care: How Providers Can Strengthen Experience, Outcomes, and Operational Performance appeared first on MedCity News.
PBGH is now offering its advisory services to any purchaser. These services help employers fulfill their fiduciary responsibility, understand their data and more. The post PBGH Offers Advisory Services to Support Employers’ Fiduciary Responsibilities appeared first on MedCity News.
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There’s a new health innovation law firm in town! Rebecca Gwilt & Kaitlyn O’Connor have started Elevare Law to help health tech companies. We spent a little time talking about the new firm and who it’s going to work with, and a lot about the different legal and regulatory challenges facing digital health companies. Deep…
By KIM BELLARD As you may have heard, the federal government is currently shut down, although for many federal workers – those deemed “essential” – that just means they keep on working but don’t get paid (and, in fact, some might never get paid). The cause is the now-standard failure of Congress to pass a…
That is according to the 2024 national health expenditure data published in Health Affairs last week (Hartman et al. 2026). Here is the abstract: Health care spending in the US reached $5.3 trillion and increased 7.2 percent in 2024, similar to growth of 7.4 percent in 2023, as increased demand for health care influenced this two-year trend. As…
Effective contract management for healthcare organizations is pivotal in this complex and highly regulated world. Healthcare organizations, whether large hospitals, clinics, or individual practitioners, contract with various entities, including vendors, insurance providers, and regulatory bodies. These contracts govern everything from purchasing medical supplies to services reimbursement, making healthcare contract management a critical aspect of running…
This issue brief describes recent trends in the number of Medicaid outpatient prescriptions and the spending on those drugs and examines how the pandemic and pandemic-era policies may have impacted those trends.
A paper by Campbell et al. (2024) provides some guidance. The authors developed a series of recommendations based on literature review, expert interviews and an expert workshop in order to support consistent and transparent evaluation and use of validated family spillover effects in health technology assessments (HTA) and cost-effectiveness analyses (CEA). The expert panel consisted…
We should ask a more nuanced question than “does AI work in drug discovery.” Rather, we should ask which approaches are about to be proven, and which are about to be exposed, because the field is several bets, and they are not equally sound. The post The AI Drug Discovery Race Is Heating Up, Not…