Debate Over Pediatric Gender-Affirming Care Intensifies Following New HHS Report
Amid political and medical disagreements, the report emphasizes potential health risks
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From Urgent Care to Smarter Care: Using Rapid Testing to Fight Antibiotic Resistance
By making RT-PCR testing a routine option in outpatient and urgent care settings — and by educating all stakeholders along the clinical continuum — we can significantly reduce unnecessary antibiotic use, protect the effective drugs we still have, and ensure that bacterial infections remain treatable for future generations. The post From Urgent Care to Smarter…
How Individual Market Enrollment Changed with the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits
This chart examines individual market enrollment data from 2011 through 2025, when enrollment reached a record high of 25.2 million people. Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace enrollment increased following the enactment of enhanced premium tax credits in 2021, as more individuals became eligible for subsidies.
Providers’ Contracts with AI Companies Should Share Risk, This Hospital Exec Says
AI tools very rarely work as out-of-the box solutions, noted Zafar Chaudry, chief digital officer and chief AI and information officer at Seattle Children’s. When hospitals enter into contracts with AI developers to build tools that are the right fit, he thinks the two parties should share risk. That way, hospitals won’t be stuck paying…
Quantifying the Impact of Medicaid Expansion
How did Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act impact health insurance coverage, cost and mental health? That is the question asked by Andreyeva, Rochford and Marthey (2025). They use 2011-2019 data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to examine outcomes for Americans aged 26–54 with at least one child living in the…
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, exits, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry. The post Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs appeared first on MedCity News.
Compliance: Why Your Vendor’s Vendor is a Growth Risk
The core challenge for leadership is no longer merely managing direct vendors; it’s the cascading risk of the “nth-party” supplier. The post Compliance: Why Your Vendor’s Vendor is a Growth Risk appeared first on MedCity News.
Why Patients – And Many Innovative Doctors – Are Pursuing Health Outside the System
By DAVID SHAYWITZ Our current system of delivering care is awful from the perspective of seemingly every stakeholder. It frustrates, enrages, saddens, and depletes patients and physicians alike. No one designed it this way. It evolved through a series of choices and contingencies that perhaps made sense at the time but now seem to have…
4 Health Tech Trends Startups Can’t Ignore, Per an Oak HC/FT Partner
During a recent interview at the ViVE conference in Los Angeles, Oak HC/FT Partner Vig Chandramouli shared four key trends shaping the health tech startup market, from underinvested labor management, pricing risks and the influence of Epic on long-term deals. The post 4 Health Tech Trends Startups Can’t Ignore, Per an Oak HC/FT Partner appeared…
Using RWD, SDoH and Patient Mapping to Eliminate Blind Spots from the Patient Journey
[Sponsored] This article is part of a series on eliminating blind spots in the patient journey by leveraging real-world data. The post Using RWD, SDoH and Patient Mapping to Eliminate Blind Spots from the Patient Journey appeared first on MedCity News.