This brief describes the Managed Care Program Annual Report (MCPAR), a relatively new, comprehensive report on state Medicaid managed care programs that includes plan-level data. It is used with other managed care reports to improve state and federal managed care program monitoring, oversight, and transparency.
As immigrants in southeastern Louisiana and Mississippi braced for this month’s U.S. Homeland Security operation, Cristiane Rosales-Fajardo received a panicked phone call from a friend. The friend’s Guatemalan tenant, who didn’t know she was pregnant, had just delivered a premature baby in the New Orleans house. The parents lacked legal residency, and the mother refused…
EMS providers often treat patients without medical history, risking delays, errors, and guesswork. But new national data-sharing frameworks are starting to close that gap, bringing critical records to first responders in real time. The post Bringing Patient Data to the Frontlines: Why Interoperability Must Include EMS appeared first on MedCity News.
As clinicians begin to rely more on AI, they will also need to cultivate new skills, particularly around critical interpretation of AI-generated insights, to fully leverage its potential in patient care. The post From Crawling to Caring: The Evolution of Clinical Practice with AI and Its Transformative Impact on Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
Perhaps so according to Politico: Trump early next week is expected to sign an executive order directing aides to pursue the initiative, called “most favored nation,” for a selection of drugs within the Medicare program. The idea would use the administration’s authorities to force prices down… White House officials initially pressed congressional Republicans to draft…
By DEEKSHA HEGDE I had an itch to draw parallels between the two. The structural facts kept lining up in ways I couldn’t dismiss, and by the end, I stopped trying. Function’s product is an app: you pay $365 a year, go to a Quest Diagnostics location, get 160+ biomarkers tested twice a year, and…
That is the title of a helpful article by Karnon and Haji Ali Afzali (Pharmacoeconomics 2014) with a subtitle A Review and Critique of the Costs and Benefits of DES. The paper starts by highlighting the 3 most common types of models: decision trees, Markovian cohort models, and individual level models. Decisions trees are useful…
Nearly 40,000 people have signed a petition from the Alliance for Women’s Health and Prevention’s EveryBODY Covered Campaign urging employers to recognize obesity as a chronic condition and expand comprehensive coverage. The post Nearly 40,000 People Urge Employers to Cover Comprehensive Obesity Care appeared first on MedCity News.
On the surface, it sounds positively delightful – who wouldn’t want to help dear grandma avoid the nursing home? But as is often the case with these sweeping government proposals, the devil is in the details. The post Why Harris’ Medicare at Home Plan is Good but Flawed appeared first on MedCity News.
People who don’t have a trusted health care provider are more likely than people with one to believe or lean toward believing several common myths about vaccines, a new KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust reveals.