Cigna Healthcare ranks highest among commercial health plans when it comes to digital experience, while UPMC Health Plan ranks highest among Medicare Advantage plans, according to J.D. Power. The post Which Health Plans Take the Lead in Member Digital Experience? appeared first on MedCity News.
As margins tighten, traditional revenue cycle management strategies are on shaky ground. Many healthcare providers are turning to automation and AI to simplify payments, prevent revenue loss and protect profits. This article breaks down some of the most common revenue cycle management (RCM) challenges facing healthcare leaders and offers a practical checklist to optimize patient…
KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed the Department of Health and Human Services, the federal workforce, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on WAMU’s “1A” on Jan. 8. Click here to hear Rovner on “1A” KFF Health News video producer and visual reporter Hannah Norman discussed PFAS contamination in well water on KVPR’s…
Solutions like AI-powered patient intake offer a tangible ROI by streamlining administrative tasks, reducing errors, and improving care quality. The post Let’s Rethink AI — Patient Intake Is the Perfect Place to Start appeared first on MedCity News.
Wearable technology seems to offer great potential for early detection and management of agitation experienced by people with communication-impaired neurological disorders, allowing caregivers to provide personalized interventions that could significantly improve patients’ lives. The post Digital Biomarkers in Agitation Detection: Enhancing Care for Communication-Impaired Neurological Disorders appeared first on MedCity News.
If President-elect Donald Trump and a Republican Senate try to roll back reproductive health rights or pursue a widely prophesied national abortion ban, California Attorney General Rob Bonta is poised to challenge him. Two years ago, Bonta, a Democrat who heads the state justice department, directed his staff to draft legal analyses against a possible…
GLP-1s have proven to be highly effective for weight loss but pose significant cost challenges for employers, according to a recent panel of experts at MedCity INVEST. The post Are GLP-1s Worth the Hype? appeared first on MedCity News.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker
When MRD testing evolves from a numerical readout into a definition of clonal behavior, it becomes what clinicians have needed all along: a tool that informs action, not just detection. The post Same Mutation, Different Fate appeared first on MedCity News.
When the news broke on Jan. 31 that a New York physician had been indicted for shipping abortion medications to a woman in Louisiana, it stoked fear across the network of doctors and medical clinics who engage in similar work. “It’s scary. It’s frustrating,” said Angel Foster, co-founder of the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project,…