As health insurance premiums skyrocket in both employer-based plans and Affordable Care Act marketplaces, millions face worse choices than ever during this open enrollment. The team behind “An Arm and a Leg” examines their own limited options, walking through how they approached reading the fine print to weed out the worst choices — and potentially…
Introduction: The Rise of Home-Based Healthcare Healthcare is changing fast, and more people now want medical services that come directly to their homes. As the population grows older and life gets busier, home-based healthcare has become more common and in demand. However, there’s often confusion between the two terms, healthcare assistance and home health care….
That is the subtitle of a paper by Vreman et al. (2020). The authors look at all treatments approved by FDA and EMA that were subsequently reviewed by HTA bodies in both jurisdictions between 1995 and 2018. The authors used ICER as the US HTA body; European HTA bodies included IQWiG (Germany), NICE (UK), ZIN…
Inaccurate provider data is creating a hidden crisis in healthcare by delaying care and driving up costs for both patients and health plans, according to CAQH CEO Sarah Ahmad. Her organization is working to address the issue by improving how provider data is collected and verified on the front end. The post Bad Provider Data…
Larry Humphreys, a retired Federal Emergency Management Agency worker in Moultrie, Georgia, says he and his wife won’t be traveling much next year after their monthly health insurance premium payment increases more than 40%, to $938. Humphreys, 68, feels betrayed by the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. “As federal employees we sacrificed good salaries in…
Jesse Shoplock is SVP of Business Development at Inbox Health. They are trying to help one of the messiest parts of American health care, figuring out both how much patients owe at the point of care and how to actually help the providers get paid. As of now 70% of patients don’t know what they…
How can physicians and patients be confident enough that vendors entirely ignorant of the FDA process for repair and reporting can properly recalibrate life-saving machines? Is this really the right place to argue that “anyone can do it?” The post Medical Device Right to Repair is the Wrong Approach appeared first on MedCity News.
The Trump administration is using migrant children held by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement to lure parents and relatives into immigration detention, whether or not they have a criminal record. In one example, a dad went to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in New Mexico, thinking he was…
UniQure plans a first quarter 2026 FDA submission for AMT-130 as a treatment for Huntington’s disease. This gene therapy delivers microRNA designed to silence the mutated gene that produces a protein driving this disorder, which so far has no FDA-approved therapies. The post UniQure Gene Therapy’s Clinical Trial Results Keep It on Path to Become…