Patty Hayward is GM of Healthcare and Life Sciences at TalkDesk. TalkDesk runs the technology for contact centers that helps companies across health care connect and manage their consumers. You’ve probably unknowingly used their technology when you call (or now text or email) your health plan, your provider system or call into one of those…
Tina Ewing-Wilson remembers the last time major Medicaid cuts slashed her budget. In the late 2000s, during the Great Recession, the pot of money she and other Medi-Cal recipients depend on to keep them out of costly residential care homes shrank. The only way she could afford help was to offer room and board to…
The organizations that will thrive in this environment are those that invest in resilience — the capacity to adapt, absorb strain, and maintain performance in the face of volatility. The post Success in Chaos: Building Resilient Systems for an Unpredictable Future appeared first on MedCity News.
SALINAS, Calif. — This coastal valley made famous by the novelist John Steinbeck is sometimes known affectionately as “America’s salad bowl,” though the planting and harvesting is done mostly by immigrants from Mexico. For Taylor Farms, a major global purveyor of packaged salads and cut vegetables, that’s made it a logical place to pioneer a…
Sumana Reddy, a primary care physician, struggles on thin financial margins to run Acacia Family Medical Group, the small independent practice she founded 27 years ago in Salinas, a predominantly Latino city in an agricultural valley often called “the salad bowl of the world.” Reddy can’t match the salaries offered by larger health systems —…
Though chronic disease treatment is rapidly expanding, balancing the latest medication with proven initiatives can help employers manage rising healthcare costs wherever you fall on the GLP-1 coverage spectrum. The post Considering Covering GLP-1s? Here’s What You Need to Know appeared first on MedCity News.
This brief explores the magnitude of federal funding cuts under the House budget resolution and puts the $880 billion in context by comparing the size of the cuts to states’ tax revenues, spending on education, and the number of Medicaid enrollees covered for that cost.
As President Trump would have most certainly learned on his first day at Wharton, you really have to spend money to make money. If you want to make America truly a world leader, why on earth would you stifle the institution that contributed an estimated $92.89 billion to the US economy in 2023 alone and…
The FDA approved Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals drug Dupixent as a treatment for the inflammatory skin disorder chronic spontaneous urticaria. The regulatory decision comes two years after the agency turned down an application for the biologic drug in this indication. The post Blockbuster Sanofi & Regeneron Drug Dupixent Notches FDA Nod for an Inflammatory Skin…
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