Mayo Clinic is deploying AI across its revenue cycle operations, but revenue cycle chair Todd Manion said he’s skeptical that these functions will be fully automated anytime soon. The post How Is Mayo Clinic Using AI in Its Revenue Cycle? appeared first on MedCity News.
On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission released its second interim staff report on prescription drug middlemen. The report examines the impact of PBMs (specifically CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx) on specialty generic drugs, highlighting substantial price markups by PBMs on medications for cancer, HIV and other conditions. The post Healthcare Leaders Support FTC’s…
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Many policymakers aim to reduce health disparities across groups. In fact, the distributional cost effectiveness analysis (DCEA) approach aims to incorporate treatment value based on the extent to which they reduce inequality. However, what types of inequality are we trying to reduce: ex-post or ex-ante? Ex post inequality means reducing inequality of outcomes at a…
Novo Nordisk’s monlunabant showed signs of neuropsychiatric side effects in a mid-stage diabetic kidney disease study, despite a drug design intended to favor hitting its target receptor in peripheral tissues rather than the brain. Neuro effects were also reported last year in a Phase 2 test of this pill in obesity. The post Oral Metabolic…
This brief explains the preventive services coverage requirements, the basis of the Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra lawsuit, next steps in the litigation, and the potential implications.
This slideshow examines trends in U.S. health spending over time, including the share of household budgets devoted to health expenses and comparisons of out-of-pocket expenditures to money spent on insurance through 2021.
By SUHANA MISHRA When discussing treatment outcomes, we usually talk about dosage, adherence, and access. Rarely do we speak about algorithms. Yet as I began working on a scoping review examining misinformation and disinformation in mental health with a team at the Royal College of Psychiatrists led by Dr. Subodh Dave, I realized that some…
Following the Trump administration’s warning last month that using acetaminophen – the active ingredient in Tylenol – during pregnancy can increase the risk of autism in children, very few (4%) adults say the claim about a causal relationship is “definitely true,” a new KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust finds.
The full FDA clinical hold formally halts all tests of Aardvark Therapeutics’ drug for Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare inherited metabolic disorder that leads to excessive eating. Earlier this year, Aardvark voluntarily paused all tests of its small molecule after a cardiovascular problem emerged in a healthy volunteer. The post Under FDA Clinical Hold, Aardvark Therapeutics…