LOS ANGELES — President-elect Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations and tougher immigration restrictions is deepening mistrust of the health care system among California’s immigrants and clouding the future for providers serving the state’s most impoverished residents. At the same time, immigrants living illegally in Southern California told KFF Health News they thought the economy…
Republicans have long pushed to force working-age adults enrolled in Medicaid to show they are, in fact, working. Party members argue Medicaid, a taxpayer-funded program for people with low incomes and disabilities, shouldn’t cover Americans who aren’t actively trying to improve their financial situations. And Republicans are closer than ever to achieving a national work…
Aliada brings AbbVie an early clinical Alzheimer’s disease drug candidate as well as the platform technology that produced it. Aliada licensed its brain delivery technology from Johnson & Johnson. The post AbbVie Adds Another Alzheimer’s Prospect With $1.4B Aliada Therapeutics Acquisition appeared first on MedCity News.
A large study from Massachusetts has found that babies whose mothers had covid-19 while pregnant were slightly more likely to have a range of neurodevelopmental diagnoses by age 3. Most of these children had speech or motor delays, and the link was strongest in boys and when the mother was infected late in pregnancy. The…
Healthcare Innovation spoke to HITRUST VP of Quality on findings in the annual TRUST report
Self-pay collections are challenging for healthcare organizations of all shapes and sizes, but particularly for mid-size providers. Caught in an awkward middle ground, these organizations are often too large to operate with the agility and personal touch of small clinics, but too small to leverage the economies of scale available to large health systems. Revenue…
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Catholic Health’s SVP and CDIO believes that healthcare shouldn’t be interrupted in the event of an outage
Trey Sutten, co-founder and CEO of Siftwell Analytics, talks about how his firm engages with community health plans on risk stratification, quality measures, and member retention
The $65 million acquisition will grow the virtual care giant’s lineup of preventative services.