Weekend Reading
Trump drug price ultimatum.Baumol cost disease: Child care vs. pet care & health care vs. veterinary care editions.Jennifer Doudna interview on CRISPR.AMA on PBMs.Life 30,000 feet underwater.
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The Top 5 Home Care Franchise Opportunities in the U.S.
[Sponsored] The home care industry is booming. As Baby Boomers age and more families seek in-home solutions for loved ones, demand for home care services is at an all-time high. The post The Top 5 Home Care Franchise Opportunities in the U.S. appeared first on MedCity News.
Allocating CBO’s Estimates of Federal Medicaid Spending Reductions and Enrollment Loss Across the States
The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest cost estimate shows that the One Big Beautiful Bill would reduce federal Medicaid spending by $723 billion, with an estimated Medicaid enrollment loss of 10.3 million people in 2034. Building on prior KFF analysis, this analysis allocates these estimated federal spending reductions and enrollment losses across the states.
Protected: What Your Employer-Based Health Coverage Really Costs
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Optura’s Funding Boost to Enhance AI Impact Measurement for Healthcare Providers
Optura has raised $17.5 million in Series A funding led by Salesforce Ventures, bringing total funding to over $25 million. The platform helps healthcare organizations evaluate AI investments, prioritize projects, and measure ROI in real time, addressing industry challenges of unmeasurable AI pilots and escalating spending.
Taking a Longer-Term View of Investing in Preventive Care
Mary Bacaj, president of value-based care at Conifer Health Solutions, tells self-insured employers that investing in care management tends to pay off in cost avoidance later
Healing Through Heritage: Why Culturally Grounded Recovery Matters on Tribal Lands
This shift is not about replacing clinical care with tradition. It is about recognizing that healing in Native communities has always been deeply connected to culture. The post Healing Through Heritage: Why Culturally Grounded Recovery Matters on Tribal Lands appeared first on MedCity News.
A Generalized Risk Adjusted Cost Effectiveness (GRACE) Economic Model for Measuring the Value of Interventions that Delay Mobility Impairment Across Neurological Conditions
That is the title of a new paper out in Value in Health with co-authors Jaehong Kim, Jacob Fajnor, Kyi-Sin Than, Elizabeth S. Mearns , Stacey L. Kowal, Thomas Majda and Jakub P. Hlávka PhD. The abstract is below. Objectives To quantify how incorporating patient risk preferences and severity adjustments affect the value of a…
Empowering Prevention: The Present and Future of Cervical Cancer Screening
HPV self-collection testing empowers more people to participate in their own care, fostering autonomy and helping to bridge long-standing gaps in access to screenings for all populations. The post Empowering Prevention: The Present and Future of Cervical Cancer Screening appeared first on MedCity News.
Uninsured but Undaunted, a Surgical Patient Searched the Globe for a Deal
Around the end of last year, Ronmel Rangel, 63, began to feel a familiar discomfort in his lower abdomen. Twenty-five years earlier, while living in his native Venezuela, he had undergone surgery to repair a hernia on the right side of his groin. Now, the same pain had returned — on the left. This time,…