Patrick Quigley is the CEO of Sidecar Health. It’s a start up health insurance company that has a new approach to how employers and employees buy health care. Sidecar is betting on the radical pricing transparency idea. Instead of going down the contacting and narrow network route, Sidecar presents average area pricing and individual provider…
This slideshow examines trends in U.S. health spending over time, including the share of household budgets devoted to health expenses and comparisons of out-of-pocket expenditures to money spent on insurance through 2021.
The impact of private equity investments in healthcare under the new administration is multifaceted. While deregulation and business-friendly policies could stimulate investment and drive innovation, there are significant concerns about the potential negative effects on healthcare quality and access. The post Will A Second Trump Term be a Financing Boon for Healthcare? appeared first on…
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) recently released a new strategy to “Make America Healthy Again.” The strategy includes: Promoting evidence-based preventionEmpowering people to achieve their health goalsDriving choice and competition for people A Health Affairs Forefront article from Joshua M. Liao notes three broad goals: increasing patient engagement, better leveraging data and…
[Sponsored] This article is part of a series on eliminating blind spots in the patient journey by leveraging real-world data. The post Using RWD, SDoH and Patient Mapping to Eliminate Blind Spots from the Patient Journey appeared first on MedCity News.
[Sponsored] Hidden costs can undermine your healthcare practice. A webinar sponsored by Elation Health will offer insights on how to address them. The post Tips for Greater Healthcare Practice Success in 2025 appeared first on MedCity News.
In the two counties around nurse practitioner Samantha Marsee’s clinic in rural northeastern Maryland, there’s not a single clinic that provides abortions. And until recently, Marsee herself wasn’t trained to treat patients who wanted to end a pregnancy. “I didn’t really have a lot of knowledge about abortion care,” she said. After Roe v. Wade…
Today, people living with diabetes have several ways of monitoring glucose levels, whether through finger pricks or CGMs. Both ways of measuring glucose levels have benefits and limitations. The post The Future of Glucose Monitoring: Why Blood-Based Measurements Matter appeared first on MedCity News.
This tracker provides U.S. global health funding data by program area and country. It will be updated as new data become available.
Hasta hace unos años, cualquier indicio de piojos solía ser suficiente para que mandaran al estudiante de vuelta a casa. Recién se le permitía regresar a la escuela cuando tenía la cabeza libre de bichitos. Pero las normas de “cero liendres” fueron reemplazadas por otras de “no exclusión”, que priorizan la asistencia a clase por…