A group of Democratic attorneys general filed a lawsuit against HHS and CMS, arguing that their recent final rule will harm access to care under the Affordable Care Act. The post Democratic Attorneys General Sue Trump Administration Over New ACA Rule appeared first on MedCity News.
Conventional wisdom holds that orphan drugs treat rare (by definition) and more severe diseases. Because they treat diseases with significant unmet needs, their health benefits per person are large. But are they really? Does conventional wisdom align with the evidence? To answer the question myself and colleagues at FTI Consulting, including co-author Marie Steele-Adjognon, conducted…
Suzy Lohman felt compelled to act when she learned that foster children treated at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center often lacked proper bags for their belongings. Inspired by a hospital newsletter request for suitcases, duffel bags, and backpacks, Suzy launched a drive among EVS employees to collect these essential items. Many foster children, she knew, relied…
Roche’s astegolimab met the main goal of one pivotal COPD study but failed another, mirroring the mixed results recently posted by a Regeneron Pharmaceuticals COPD drug candidate that goes after the same target. Biologics are a new treatment option for COPD following approvals of antibodies from Sanofi and GSK. The post Roche Reports Mixed Data…
By OWEN TRIPP Creating a healthcare experience that builds trust and delivers value to people and purchasers isn’t a quick fix, but it’s the only way to reverse the downward spiral of high costs and poor outcomes Entrepreneurs like to say the U.S. healthcare system is “broken,” usually right before they explain how they intend…
LISTEN: Distracted. Reckless. Drunk. Americans’ driving has gotten more dangerous since the covid pandemic. Chaseedaw Giles appeared on WAMU’s “Health Hub” on Nov. 26 to share her reporting on that deadly trend. Traffic deaths have climbed nationwide over the past decade. In some major cities, traffic deaths have surpassed homicides. But this year, Washington, D.C.,…
Every month a legitimate workflow improvement sits in queue, the organization pays for the problem twice: once in the inefficiency the change was supposed to fix, and again in the workaround everyone built to get through the week. The backlog doesn’t show up as a line item. It shows up everywhere else. The post The…
A cyberattack on Stryker forced Boston Children’s Hospital to abandon a deeply embedded communications platform and rebuild secure messaging and voice capabilities in real time.
By MIKE MAGEE What’s wrong in the social science realm of health? Consider for example the mental health crises affecting teens across the nation, or the sharp decline in relationships and child bearing in young adult men and women, or the attack on vaccine policy by the wayward Kennedy, or the attempted dismantling of ACA…
Only 2 percent of UnitedHealthcare services currently require prior approval