The future of digital behavioral health won’t be found in yet another standalone app or fragmented series of platforms. It will be built by re-centering care around clinicians empowered by digital technology. The post Tech-Enabled Care: Why Clinicians Must Remain at the Center of Digital Behavioral Health appeared first on MedCity News.
Hospitals’ flat revenues are clashing with rising costs and excessive reimbursement denials from payers, said Rod Hanners, CEO of Keck Medicine of USC. He warned that policy efforts focused solely on limiting provider payments ignore the larger issue of unchecked profits among payers, drugmakers and other healthcare industry players. The post Why Hospitals Are Losing…
Dr Kaelee Brockway is a professor of education and physical therapy who has built a series of AI based “patients” for her PT students to train on. Kaelee is a pioneer in using these tools for training. She showed me the personas that she has built with LLMs that are now being used by her…
This Policy Watch examines the continued impact the Trump Administration’s Executive Order on gender is having on LGBTQ health policy issues, inlcude the removal of information and data, adoption of new CDC priorities, and approach to new PrEP recommendations.
To hit its target, the Nashville-based company will need to build about 1,300 surgery centers, urgent-care clinics, freestanding ERs and the like across its 20-state footprint
The colorful terrazzo floor in the atrium of Children’s Hospital of Colorado at the Anshutz campus immediately captures the hearts of children and parents. This 1,000 square foot work of art sparkles like a thin layer of glass. At night, the floor is almost iridescent. For the 14 years Environmental Services Lead Adrian Duran spent…
Sarepta Therapeutics knew about the death of a patient treated with its experimental gene therapy for a type of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, but said nothing public for a month. Financial analysts lambasted Sarepta executives for failing to disclose the fatality when the company announced a restructuring that includes stopping work on this limb-girdle program. The…
This brief examines the two presidential candidates’ records and other recent policy proposals that could inform starkly different directions for the program across key areas, including Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion, financing, eligibility, benefits, and cost-sharing, prescription drugs, long-term services and supports, and managed care.
Revenue cycle management (RCM) challenges exist at every stage of the patient journey – from patient intake and registration to insurance eligibility, claims processing and collections. Creating administrative efficiencies, reducing claims denials, improving the patient experience and remaining compliant with payer requirements and industry regulations all play a role in successfully managing revenue cycles and…
[Sponsored] Neurologists and health care practitioners must evolve with the world. Telemedicine carts assist in this evolution by serving as an intermediary between patients and doctors. The post The 3 Best Options to Buy Telemedicine Carts for Neurology Care appeared first on MedCity News.