California this week plans to notify Affordable Care Act marketplace enrollees that their costs could rise sharply next year unless Congress extends subsidies to help people buy health insurance. Health care analysts say the nation’s uninsured population will rise significantly if federal lawmakers do not agree to renew covid-era tax credits, which Congress authorized in…
More than three-quarters of American adults didn’t get a covid shot last season, a figure that health care experts warn could rise this year amid new U.S. government recommendations. The covid vaccine was initially popular. About 75% of Americans had received at least one dose of the first versions of the vaccine by early 2022,…
By MATTHEW HOLT At some point I had to crawl out of my hole and put pen to paper on the election debacle that just took place, and what the ensuing lunacy might be like for the health care system. So this is my attempt to do just that. It’s really hard to understand why…
Collaboration with NinePatch to integrate clinical, behavioral health, administrative, and social data within Manifest MedEx’s network
Strive Health’s Series D funding was led by New Enterprise Associates, and included participation from CVS Health Ventures, CapitalG, Echo Health and several others. The post Strive Health Secures $550M to Advance Value-Based Kidney Care Model appeared first on MedCity News.
The Pink Sheet reports on a new international health technology assessment (HTA) body: Health Economics Methods Advisory group (HEMA). The Health Economics Methods Advisory group (HEMA) is a new, independent group of health technology assessment agencies from the US, England and Canada that will work together to develop recommendations on adopting novel health economic methods…
CMS’ new ACCESS model, slated to begin on July 1, aims to shift traditional Medicare fee-for-service toward value-based care by tying payments to patient outcomes and encouraging tech-enabled, preventive care. Experts say it could benefit digitally mature, value-focused providers first, but its overall success will hinge on clear metrics, better data sharing and sustained participation….
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Blocks from where tourists stroll along the cobblestoned riverfront in this racially divided city, Detraya Gilliard made her way down the dark, ruptured sidewalks of Yamacraw Village, looking for her missing 15-year-old daughter. Like most other people living in one of the nation’s oldest public housing projects, Gilliard endured the boarded-up buildings…
Kent Dicks, CEO, and Kendall Paulsen, Telehealth Solutions lead, at Life 365 showed me their comprehensive set of tools and services for remote patient monitoring, or what I call the “continuous clinic”. Kent did this with MedApps, later acquired by Alere. But at Life 365 he’s building a new approach to getting the tools and…
Local health department staffing grew by about 19% from 2019 to 2022, according to a report from the National Association of County and City Health Officials that studied 2,512 of the nation’s roughly 3,300 local departments. But those jobs, and the safety net they provide for the people in the communities served, are vulnerable as…