Lines at the desk, phones ringing off the hook and a stack of insurance questions waiting to be resolved — this is the daily reality for many patient access teams. Today’s patients find these “front door” bottlenecks in healthcare particularly frustrating, especially since they can envision how much smoother the process could be with the…
This poll looks at awareness and concern over the outbreak of measles in the U.S. and finds that a growing share of adults is encountering false claims about the measles vaccines, but many are uncertain whether these claims are true or false. Parents who lean toward believing the false claims are less likely to say…
Congressional lawmakers are facing tricky arithmetic as they hammer out a budget plan to finance President Donald Trump’s agenda. Republicans need to free up roughly $4 trillion to pay for renewing Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, which expire at the end of the year. Trump has vowed not to touch the costliest government programs, including Medicare…
Here are three things healthcare leaders should consider for improving the DME process to make the hospital-to-home experience more efficient and less stressful for all stakeholders. The post From Hospital to Home Without the Headaches: How Technology Can Smooth the Transition appeared first on MedCity News.
A panel of experts said the HLTH conference agrred that states with strict abortion measures are likely to see negative economic impact as medical residents decline to go to them for training and physicians move out. The post Strict Abortion Laws Is Likely Already Having An Economic Impact appeared first on MedCity News.
This brief provides an overview of the financial assistance provided under the ACA for people purchasing coverage on their own through health insurance Marketplaces (also called exchanges).
During a panel discussion at the MedCity News INVEST Digital Health Conference, executives shared the top challenges they’re facing in the consumer diagnostic testing space. These challenges include funding and encouraging behavior change. The post What Are the Challenges in Building a Consumer-Focused Diagnostic Testing Startup? appeared first on MedCity News.
A fast-spreading disease has been detected in Congo by the health authorities there that has claimed 31 lives as of yet while putting thousands at risk of the infection for new infection referred to as disease X. There is not much information about the illness. Still, there is a chance that it might be a…
En un soleado día de semana en Atlanta, un pequeño grupo de personas se reunió para realizar una manifestación frente a la sede de un sindicato. Al evento, organizado por Nikema Williams, representante demócrata en el Congreso nacional, asistieron miembros del sindicato y también trabajadores federales recientemente despedidos, entre ellos Ryan Sloane. “Me despidieron a…
This volume explores findings from the KFF-Washington Post Survey of Parents on views of childhood vaccines; how ACIP may have contributed to concerns about hepatitis B and COVID-19 vaccines; recent HHS warnings about alleged links between Tylenol use in pregnancy and autism; and AI-generated deepfakes impersonating doctors to sell products.