While the Senate budget bill released this week proposes deep funding cuts and work requirements for Medicaid — proposals likely to increase the number of people without health insurance — another big health care issue looms that could affect millions unless Congress acts. Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplace has soared over…
These three patterns keep showing up, and each is much cheaper to prevent than to fix later. The post Your Healthcare AI Strategy Is Probably an Architecture Problem appeared first on MedCity News.
Every year more than 10,000 taxpayer-supported public housing units are lost to disrepair. But federal lawmakers routinely ignore the full amount, around $115 billion, needed to keep the units in “decent, safe and sanitary” condition. One-time funds for public housing repairs were cut from the final version of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act to appeal…
Effective contract management for healthcare organizations is pivotal in this complex and highly regulated world. Healthcare organizations, whether large hospitals, clinics, or individual practitioners, contract with various entities, including vendors, insurance providers, and regulatory bodies. These contracts govern everything from purchasing medical supplies to services reimbursement, making healthcare contract management a critical aspect of running…
El sector de la salud ha sido un punto positivo en la economía este año, representando casi la mitad del crecimiento del empleo en el país. Sin embargo, economistas y expertos advierten que las políticas contra inmigrantes y los recortes a Medicaid podrían poner en riesgo ese crecimiento en el futuro. De enero a agosto,…
Matt Holt, former New Mountain Capital executive, is exploring a $30 billion deal to combine five health tech startups into a single platform called Thoreau. The venture would set out to simplify and integrate services across payers, providers and data — and if completed, it would rank among the largest private equity-backed health tech companies…
A new KFF poll of immigrants finds that six in 10 lawfully present immigrants say they worry about the possibility that they or a family member could be detained or deported, contributing to feelings of increased stress, anxiety, and other health problems. The increased fears come against a backdrop of more restrictive federal immigration policies…More
Sanofi is licensing a RadioMedix radiopharmaceutical in development for neuroendocrine tumors. The French pharmaceutical giant is responsible for global commercialization of the therapy, a potential competitor to the Novartis radiopharmaceutical Lutathera. The post Sanofi Jumps Into Radiopharmaceuticals, Paying €100M for Therapy That Could Rival a Novartis Drug appeared first on MedCity News.
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According to the World Health Organization, “Three distinguishing features, when combined, turn mere variations or differences in health into a social inequity in health. They are systematic, socially produced (and therefore modifiable) and unfair. That is how an ISPOR Special Interest Group Report by Griffiths et al. (2025) begins. The health equity primer provides and…