Kaiser Permanente is showing no signs of slowing down when it comes to its Risant Health experiment. The organization is currently on the prowl for more acquisition targets, Kaiser CEO Greg Adams said at HLTH. The post Why Greg Adams Believes Risant Health Will Be Successful In Its Mission to Scale VBC Across the Country…
With just a few days left to reach a deal, lawmakers are scrambling to craft a passable bill
The growth rate of Medicare Advantage patients activity with physicians and outpatient providers early this year was nearly double what the company had expected.
By TREVOR VAN MIERLO Let’s face it: for the past 25 years, digital behavioral health has struggled. Yet, we keep reinventing (and funding) the same models over and over again. How It All Started In the beginning (mid-1990s), a handful of developers, researchers, and investors envisioned high reach, lower-cost, highly tailored, anonymous interventions reaching millions…
Platform aims to create a multi-functional, rugged electric vehicle platform to deliver hospital-level care in rural communities across the country
That is the questions an NBER working paper by Fleck, Heathcote, Storesletten, and Violante aims to answer. Using a variety of survey and administrative data, the authors reach the following 8 conclusions: (i) The federal tax and transfer system is progressive. (ii) State and local tax and transfer systems are close to proportional, on average….
At Epic’s annual Users Group Meeting, the EHR behemoth highlighted its growing AI strategy — announcing tools promising to benefit providers, payers and patients alike. The post 3 Announcements You Don’t Want to Miss from Epic’s Annual Meeting appeared first on MedCity News.
Top challenges impacting specialty pharmacy outcomes, and how health systems may achieve efficiencies and enhance performance for optimal outcomes. The post An Integrated Approach to Optimizing Specialty Pharmacy and Accelerating Performance appeared first on MedCity News.
High labor costs remain an ongoing problem threatening providers’ bottom lines, according to new data from Kaufman Hall. The research revealed that medical groups’ median investment in each employed physician has reached more than $300,000 for the first time. The post High Labor Costs Continue to Plague Providers, Data Shows appeared first on MedCity News.
By KIM BELLARD So the House has passed their “big, beautiful bill,” by the narrowest of margins. Crucial to the bill are large savings from Medicaid, which in past years Republicans would have taken some glee from but now they are careful to explain away as just cutting “waste, fraud and abuse,” having finally realized…