If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.” Eight days before my 33rd birthday in April, a social worker at a crisis clinic near Denver determined I was an imminent danger to myself. She placed me on an…
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation this week to extend CMS’ hospital-at-home waiver for five more years, allowing hospitals to continue delivering acute care in patients’ homes with Medicare reimbursement. The move comes as research shows this model reduces mortality and healthcare costs. The post New Legislation Seeks to Preserve Hospital-at-Home Reimbursement Until 2030…
Legislation introduced by bipartisan members seeks to regulate pharmacy benefit managers
KFF Health News senior correspondent Renuka Rayasam discussed excited delirium on Vox Media Podcast Network’s Criminal on March 6. Click here to hear Rayasam on Criminal. Read Rayasam’s “As More States Target Disavowed ‘Excited Delirium’ Diagnosis, Police Groups Push Back.” On CBS News’ CBS Mornings on March 5, Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for…
The organizations that benefit the most from AI-powered cohorting will not simply be those that move faster. They will be those that embed patient mastering and semantic rigor into reproduceable, inspectable workflows. The post AI-Powered Cohorting Is Quietly Reshaping How Real-World Evidence Gets Built appeared first on MedCity News.
New enrollments under the Affordable Care Act are on pace to trail last year’s record numbers by as many as a million as the outgoing Biden administration confronts upheavals in the program. Donald Trump’s election to a second term has cast uncertainty around the future of the health law. In addition, the Biden administration implemented…
Cybersecurity leaders discussed how AI-driven cybersecurity attacks pose a new level of risk for hospitals and health systems at Rubrik’s Healthcare Summit last week. The post Cybersecurity Experts to Hospital Leaders: Think Beyond Traditional Disaster-Recovery Planning appeared first on MedCity News.
Providers should carefully evaluate how different AI models can be strategically integrated to optimize the care management lifecycle and address the complex needs of their patients and populations, while at the same time prioritizing patient safety and ethical considerations. The post Overcoming the Challenges of Integrating AI in Care Management appeared first on MedCity News.
The new drug payment initiative is designed to negotiate fairer prices for Medicaid
One August afternoon in 2023, Angela Martin’s cousin called with alarming news. Martin’s 74-year-old aunt had been mauled by four dogs while out for a walk near her home in rural Purlear, North Carolina. She was bleeding heavily from bites on both legs and her right arm, where she’d tried to protect her face and…