This week, UnitedHealth Group faced two new investigations from federal lawmakers. The first was a senator’s probe into its Medicare Advantage billing practices, and the second was a Congressman’s investigation into a decline in care quality at Optum-owned clinics in New York. The post UnitedHealth Hit with 2 New Federal Probes in 1 Week appeared…
Virtual solutions for depression and anxiety can lead to clinically meaningful outcomes, but certain pricing models may increase costs for employers and health plans, according to the Peterson Health Technology Institute. The post PHTI: Digital Mental Health Solutions Work, But Can Be Costly appeared first on MedCity News.
AI hallucinations may not always be bad, according to a panel of experts at the MedCity INVEST Digital Health conference. Instead, they may let people know when there are gaps in the data. The post AI Hallucinations: What Are They and Are They Always Bad? appeared first on MedCity News.
A new KFF-Washington Post partnership survey of parents explores their experiences with and views about vaccines for their children, including a look into how they make decisions related to vaccines and where they are uncertain or confused about their safety. The poll comes as the Trump administration’s Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
The new reconciliation law includes a $50 billion rural health fund. This brief describes the rural health fund, explains what the law says about the allocation of funds, and highlights outstanding questions about how the funds will be distributed across and within states to pay rural hospitals and for other purposes.
It’s a holy grail of health care: forcing the industry to reveal prices negotiated between health plans and hospitals — information that had long been treated as a trade secret. And among the flurry of executive orders President Donald Trump signed during his first five weeks back in office was a promise to “Make America…
Fourteen investors have committed to offering office hours at the HW Venture Center in July and August. The post Health Wildcatters Launches HW Venture Center to Foster Investor-Startup Matchmaking appeared first on MedCity News.
With science funding catapulted into the cultural conversation more than ever in the last year, it faces a critical inflection point. There is an opportunity to design a path forward that builds stability in the short term and opens doors in the long term for foundational and transformational science and technology solutions that will benefit…
That is the title of a new paper out in Value in Health with co-authors Jaehong Kim, Jacob Fajnor, Kyi-Sin Than, Elizabeth S. Mearns , Stacey L. Kowal, Thomas Majda and Jakub P. Hlávka PhD. The abstract is below. Objectives To quantify how incorporating patient risk preferences and severity adjustments affect the value of a…
This KFF analysis demonstrates the impact exclusion of Planned Parenthood from Medicaid and the Title X funding freeze may have low-income and uninsured individuals who get their family planning care at Planned Parenthood.