Herself Health and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota have shifted away from a fee-for-service arrangement to a value-based arrangement. The post Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Herself Health Shift To VBC Contract appeared first on MedCity News.
Rather than using AI to compete, we must design AI to collaborate. As the regulatory landscape evolves and industry pledges push for real-time, electronic, and transparent authorizations, the imperative is clear: technology must bridge the payer-provider divide, not widen it. The post AI Is Fueling a New Arms Race in Healthcare: Here’s How We Stop…
A coalition of employer and consumer groups is urging the Trump administration to crack down on alleged abuse of the No Surprises Act’s independent dispute resolution process. The post 48 Groups Want Trump Administration To Improve Process to Resolve Payer-Provider Disputes appeared first on MedCity News.
The Uno Savings Guide is a free resource that helps people check their eligibility for financial benefit programs, like Medicaid, Medicare Savings Programs and SNAP. The post Uno Health Unveils Tool to Help Americans Check Eligibility for Financial Benefits appeared first on MedCity News.
[Sponsored] Finding a therapist without insurance can be challenging, but it’s not impossible. Discover the top affordable options available, from vetted online directories to free community support networks. The post How to Find a Therapist Without Insurance: Affordable Options Explained appeared first on MedCity News.
Lawmakers are applying increased scrutiny to private equity’s involvement in healthcare, particularly when it comes to physician practice roll-ups. But investor Matthew Bennett argues the pressure is reshaping rather than shrinking the sector, pushing firms away from roll-ups and toward strategies focused on improving outcomes and using technology to boost efficiency. The post How PE…
Sumana Reddy, a primary care physician, struggles on thin financial margins to run Acacia Family Medical Group, the small independent practice she founded 27 years ago in Salinas, a predominantly Latino city in an agricultural valley often called “the salad bowl of the world.” Reddy can’t match the salaries offered by larger health systems —…
That is the topic of a paper by Katherine Wagner (2022). The paper won the 2025 American Economic Journal: Economic Policy best papers award (despite being published 3 years ago). In her paper, Dr. Wagner uses data from 20 US Atlantic and Gulf Coast states between 2001 and 2017. Housing valuation data come from Zillow…
More than half of the 410 hospitals in California have at least one building that likely wouldn’t be able to operate after a major earthquake hit their region, and with many institutions claiming they don’t have the money to meet a 2030 legal deadline for earthquake retrofits, the state is now granting relief to some…
Kelli Reardon undergoes an MRI twice a year to screen for breast cancer, a measure she said she must take to protect her health. Her mother died of the disease at age 48, putting Reardon at higher risk, and Reardon has dense breast tissue, which makes it harder to detect a growth through a mammogram….