About a year ago, I was stationed in downtown D.C. on an especially chilly spring day, watching hundreds of federal employees line up outside their office buildings. In a humbling exercise, employees were waiting to test whether their entry badges still worked at the Department of Health and Human Services — or whether they’d be walked back…
The annual growth rate of spending for traditional drugs increased from 2.1% in 2021 to 12.8% in 2024, according to Evernorth Research Institute. The post Report: Traditional Drug Costs Outpace Specialty Due to GLP-1 Demand appeared first on MedCity News.
CEO Julius Bruch, M.D., Ph.D., discusses partnership with NYU Langone Health as a model to help health systems handle volume of dementia evaluations
SIKESTON, Mo. — I wasn’t sure if visiting a cotton field was a good idea. Almost everyone in my family was antsy when we pulled up to the sea of white. The cotton was beautiful but soggy. An autumn rain had drenched the dirt before we arrived, our shoes sinking into the ground with each…
All of us can see glaring issues with the healthcare system that need to be addressed — but system-level change is hard. The leap to VBC isn’t easy, but the results are undeniable. The post Reclaiming the Joy of Medicine: How Value-Based Care Can Restore Physician Purpose appeared first on MedCity News.
An $88 “observation room” fee for a checkup didn’t sit right with Kari Greene, an “Arm and a Leg” listener from Oregon. When the price went up to $99 the next year, Kari complained to her benefits representative, who thought it was weird, too — but couldn’t do anything about it. In states like Connecticut…
SCAN Health Plan and Astrana Health recently launched SCAN Allied, a Medicare Advantage plan designed for the Asian older adult population. It includes access to a network of culturally competent providers, specialists and pharmacies from Astrana Health. The post SCAN, Astrana Launch MA Plan Tailored to Asian Older Adults appeared first on MedCity News.
This volume discusses the spread of race-based vaccine myths and shifts in health communication from fact-checking to fostering open dialogue. It also explains common misconceptions about heart attack treatment and prevention, a new scientific journal that questions established science, and gaps in research standards for AI chatbots used in healthcare.
These updated guidelines are a good opportunity for SNFs to change how they operate moving forward. Those who start implementing new policies and objectives soon and begin to operate as one system, rather than prioritizing each outcome separately, will be the ones to see the greatest results. The post Turning CMS’ Guidelines into a SNF…
Company is expanding its proprietary technology, ScopeAI, across its 100 clinics, virtual care, and field medicine services in California, New York City, and Rhode Island