Los despidos del presidente Donald Trump en el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos (HHS) incluyeron a toda la oficina que establece las pautas federales de pobreza. Estas pautas determinan si decenas de millones de estadounidenses son elegibles para programas de salud como Medicaid, asistencia alimentaria, cuidado infantil y otros servicios, según dijo un ex…
ICHRAs are gaining a lot of interest in healthcare. Some say they are beneficial because they give employees more choice in their health insurance, while others are more skeptical. The post Are ICHRAs Actually Good for Employers and Employees? appeared first on MedCity News.
Teal Health received FDA approval for the first-ever at-home cervical cancer test, which seeks to give patients an alternative to the in-office pap smear. The test is already covered by four major payers in California. The post FDA Approves First At-Home Cervical Cancer Test appeared first on MedCity News.
Speaking at the recent Wells Fargo 20th Annual Healthcare Conference in Boston, senior executives envisioned the road ahead
This analysis examines the competitiveness of markets for hospital care based on the share of metropolitan areas controlled by a small number of independent hospitals or health systems and other measures. It finds that nearly half of metropolitan areas across the country had only one or two hospitals or health systems providing general inpatient hospital…
A new KFF analysis finds that a congressional proposal to significantly cut federal spending on the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion could reduce total Medicaid spending by up to nearly one-fifth, or $1.9 trillion, over a 10-year period, and end Medicaid coverage for as many as 20 million people. The impacts would be felt in…More
Ongoing collaboration will integrate Flatiron’s clinical research solutions and site network with Paradigm Health’s technology platform
Interra Health is helping Medicare patients access $50-per-month GLP-1s through the new Bridge program. The post Interra Health Adds GLP-1 Bridge Program Support appeared first on MedCity News.
This policy watch post examines the United States’ measles elimination status, including what it means to eliminate measles, whether the current measles outbreak could threaten the country’s measles elimination status, and what losing that status might mean for measles control.
Brian Rigsby was lying with his right wrist shackled to a hospital bed in Montgomery, Alabama, when he learned he didn’t have long to live. It was September 2023, and Rigsby, 46, had been brought to Jackson Hospital from an Alabama state prison 10 days earlier after complaining of pain and swelling in his abdomen….