STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. — As principal of Dunaire Elementary School, Sean Deas has seen firsthand the struggles faced by children living in extended-stay hotels. About 10% of students at his school, just east of Atlanta, live in one. The children, Deas said, often have been exposed to violence on hotel properties, exhibit aggression or anxiety…
Heranova Lifesciences recently launched a noninvasive blood test to diagnose endometriosis. The standard diagnostic method is laparoscopy, which requires anesthesia, followed by histological confirmation. With its blood test, Heranova seeks to replace the diagnostic function of laparoscopy, thus reserving surgical intervention only for therapeutic purposes. The post How One Startup Is Aiming to Replace Surgery…
Cuando comience el período de inscripción abierta para adquirir cobertura médica en los mercados de seguros establecidos por la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio, conocida como Obamacare, un grupo que antes no podía inscribirse será elegible por primera vez: los “Dreamers”. Ese es el nombre de los niños traídos a los Estados…
Let’s envision a healthcare system where caregiving is valued as the essential work it is. Where technology and policy work hand in hand and no one has to choose between caring for a loved one and pursuing their own health and career goals. The post While America Rested on Labor Day, The Invisible Healthcare Workforce…
This brief provides an overview of the role of PBMs in managing pharmacy benefits, discusses recent federal legislation focusing on several elements of PBM business practices, and explains the potential federal budgetary impact of this legislation, which would have a relatively modest impact on the federal deficit, based on available CBO estimates.
When a woman collapsed on an escalator at the Buffalo, New York, airport last June, Phil Clough knew what to do. He and another bystander put her flat on her back and checked her pulse (faint) and her breathing (shallow and erratic). Then she stopped breathing altogether. Realizing that she might be having a cardiac…
Monica Vajani, Executive Director for mHUB’s MedTech Accelerator, discusses how mHUB is helping innovators transition healthcare towards value-based care. The post The Promise of Value-Based Care and MedTech Innovation appeared first on MedCity News.
Authored by KFF’s Jen Kates and Boston University’s Debbie Stenoien and Allyala Nandakumar as well as independent consultant Michael Ruffner, this post for ThinkGlobalHealth identifies and examines several key issues and questions that lie ahead for the America First Global Health Strategy — the first roadmap for what comes next for the President’s Emergency Plan…
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…
The Host Emmarie Huetteman KFF Health News Emmarie Huetteman, senior editor, oversees a team of Washington reporters, as well as “Bill of the Month” and KFF Health News’ “What the Health?” She previously spent more than a decade reporting on the federal government, most recently covering surprise medical bills, drug pricing reform, and other health policy debates…