Working to Reduce Low-Value Preoperative Testing in Michigan
Michigan Program on Value Enhancement (MPrOVE) seeks to help Michigan Medicine eliminate low-value or inappropriate care
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5 Key Facts About Medicaid Prescription Drugs
To provide context for emerging debates about federal actions to address prescription drug costs, this issue brief highlights five key facts about Medicaid prescription drug coverage, payment, and administration.
Breaking Barriers: Why Accessibility Matters in PTSD Treatment Beyond MDMA
MDMA-assisted therapy (MDMA-AT) for PTSD sparked debate, primarily focused on concerns of safety and efficacy. But no matter how novel a treatment may be, if it is inaccessible to the millions of people who need it, its relevance becomes insignificant. The post Breaking Barriers: Why Accessibility Matters in PTSD Treatment Beyond MDMA appeared first on…
Medicare Advantage Provider Networks Limit Enrollees to About Half of the Physicians in Their Area That Are Available to Beneficiaries in Traditional Medicare, on Average
With Medicare’s annual open enrollment period underway, a new KFF analysis finds that Medicare Advantage enrollees, on average, had access to just under half (48%) of the physicians in their area who were available to people enrolled in traditional Medicare. The finding illustrates a key tradeoff for beneficiaries in choosing Medicare Advantage.
Video: Battle of the Bulge – Wegovy vs. Zepbound
The Glp-1 battle heats with new preliminary data from Eli Lilly showing that patients using its weight loss drug Zepbound lost more weight on average in 72 weeks than those on Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy. The post Video: Battle of the Bulge – Wegovy vs. Zepbound appeared first on MedCity News.
A Reality Check on SDOH: Challenges We Can’t Ignore
A very small percentage of health outcomes are tied to direct healthcare activities. The non-medical factors, conditions in which people are born, grow, live, and work in, more often than not, impact health outcomes more than the clinical care they receive. The post A Reality Check on SDOH: Challenges We Can’t Ignore appeared first on…
MedCity Pivot Podcast: How Sentara Health is Applying Regard’s AI Platform
In this episode, we speak to a healthtech executive and a physician to see where AI tools can best be deployed in health systems The post MedCity Pivot Podcast: How Sentara Health is Applying Regard’s AI Platform appeared first on MedCity News.
An Arm and a Leg: Medical-Debt Watchdog Gets Sidelined by the New Administration
The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken major steps to help people with medical debt in its nearly 14-year history. It issued rules barring medical debt from Americans’ credit reports and went after debt collectors who pressured customers to pay bills they didn’t owe. But in early February, the Trump administration moved to effectively…
As a Diversity Grant Dies, Young Scientists Fear It Will Haunt Their Careers
Adelaide Tovar, a University of Michigan scientist who researches genes related to diabetes, used to feel like an impostor in a laboratory. Tovar, 32, grew up poor and was the first in her family to graduate from high school. During her first year in college, she realized she didn’t know how to study. But after…
Trump’s Already Gone Back on His Promise To Leave Abortion to States
Abortion foes worried before his election that President Donald Trump had moved on, now that Roe v. Wade is overturned and abortion policy, as he said on the campaign trail, “has been returned to the states.” Their concerns mounted after Trump named Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime supporter of abortion rights, to lead the…