This questions may be harder to answer than it may seem. While some physicians are fully independent, and others are full employees, other physicians can be affiliated with hospitals, without being hospital-employed. There are various approaches for measuring whether a physician is integrated within a hospital system: Basic TIN-based measure. The standard approach to identifying…
Ilant Health’s Series A round was led by Cornucopian Capital, with participation from naturalX, Peakbridge, Semcap AI, Evidenced, Operator Partners, Celtic, LifeX and AlphaLab. The post Ilant Health Raises $15M to Advance Obesity Care appeared first on MedCity News.
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“I will maintain that there is no comparably important question in economics, because this is the question of human progress. This is the question of human wellbeing over millennia. Everything else about resource allocation, about policy, about macro…everything else is a footnote to this larger question of how new things come into being and how…
At the start of 2025, many issues are at play that will affect Medicaid coverage, financing, and access to care. While Medicaid was not discussed much on the campaign trail, Congress may consider big changes as part of tax and spending debates and the Trump administration may make changes to Medicaid through executive actions. Amid…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Federal prosecutors sought a maximum prison sentence of nearly 20 years for the CEO of Pain MD, a company found to have given hundreds of thousands of questionable injections to patients, many reliant on opioids. It would have been among the longest sentences for a health care executive convicted of fraud in…
Israeli cancer diagnostics startup SpoititEarly launched in the U.S. It is developing a test that uses AI and trained canines to analyze patients’ breath samples, with the goal of detecting cancer at its earliest stages. The company plans to begin selling the at-home test to U.S. consumers next year. The post Meet the Startup Using…
GoodRx launched GoodRx Employer Direct, a program that allows employers to subsidize manufacturer-sponsored prices for high-cost brand medications like GLP-1s without adding them to their health insurance benefits. The post GoodRx Launches Employer Program to Help Subsidize High-Cost Brand Drugs appeared first on MedCity News.
More than four years ago, former President Donald Trump’s administration accelerated the development and rollout of the covid-19 vaccine. The project, dubbed Operation Warp Speed, likely saved millions of lives. But a substantial number of Republican voters now identify as vaccine skeptics — and Trump rarely mentions what’s considered one of the great public health…