Endeavor Health is studying Exact Sciences’ Cancerguard blood test to help see if multi-cancer detection should be deployed widely across hospitals. The five-year study aims to fill gaps in real-world evidence on how these tests perform and how they fit into routine healthcare. The post Can Hospitals Use Blood Tests to Catch Cancer Earlier? Endeavor…
This brief analyzes federal transparency data released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on claims denials and appeals for non-group qualified health plans (QHPs) offered on HealthCare.gov in 2023. It finds that HealthCare.gov insurers denied nearly one out of every five claims (19%) submitted for in-network services. Information about the reasons for…
[Sponsored] 74% of healthcare AI is stuck in pilots. The reason isn’t the AI, it’s the data architecture underneath it. Read more to find the solution. The post 5 of the Top 10 U.S. Health Systems Are Moving to This New Health IT Category. Here’s Why. appeared first on MedCity News.
Rehab hospitals that help people recover from major surgeries and injuries have become a highly lucrative slice of the health care business. But federal data and inspection reports show that some run by the dominant company, Encompass Health Corp., and other for-profit corporations have had rare but serious incidents of patient harm and perform below…
Ocurrió hace más de una década, pero el momento permanece en su memoria. Sara Stewart conversaba con su madre, Barbara Cole, entonces de 86 años, en el comedor de su casa de Bar Harbor, en Maine. Stewart, abogada tenía en ese momento 59 años y estaba haciendo una de sus largas visitas desde fuera del…
“You know when the Patient Access Curator went live because you can see it in our stock price. It helped us drive a $100 million bottom-line improvement within two quarters.” —Ken Kubisty, Vice President of Revenue Cycle at Exact Sciences Challenge Exact Sciences is a prominent cancer diagnostics laboratory with an annual net revenue of…
The DEA’s anticipated extension of telehealth prescribing flexibility once again averts an immediate disruption in care, but it leaves providers and patients in the same cycle of uncertainty that has persisted for years. The post Another Extension Expected for Virtual Prescribing, Same Uncertainty appeared first on MedCity News.
[Sponsored] Two executives share their expertise on bridging the gap between high-level data strategy and the high-stakes reality of emergency medicine. The post Data in Motion: A Chief’s Front-line Insight and the Future of Health Information Exchange [Video] appeared first on MedCity News.
On the heels of a scuttled hospital merger between rivals in Terre Haute, Indiana, a state senator introduced a bill that would forbid similar mergers in the future. Last year, nonprofit Union Health tried to acquire the only other acute care hospital in Vigo County by leveraging a state law it helped create that allows…
Lisbeth Votruba, the Chief Clinical Officer and Dana Peco, the AVP of Clinical Informatics from Avasure came on THCB to explain how their AI enabled surveillance system improves the care team experience in hospitals and health care facilities. Their technology enables remote nurses and clinical staff to monitor patients, and manage their care in a…