By BRIAN STANLEY Patients waiting on Medicaid enrollment face more bills, while Congress touts that as cost savings. Hospitals need to choose their stance. Medicaid covers the lion’s share of short- and long-term health care expenses for low-income, older, and/or disabled Americans. Until now, the program paid for care received up to three months before…
SANDY, Utah — Just outside Salt Lake City sits an old, two-story, brick hotel. It’s been given new life as a homeless shelter for seniors. The Medically Vulnerable People shelter — or MVP shelter, as it’s known — is for people 62 and older or for younger adults with chronic health issues. Residents share rooms…
Speaking at the recent Wells Fargo 20th Annual Healthcare Conference in Boston, senior executives envisioned the road ahead
While AI has the potential to streamline processes, its current use in the revenue cycle is resulting in more claim denials, payment delays, and a greater need for appeals, particularly because payers often use AI to retroactively review medical necessity determinations. The post How Payers are Using AI to Deny Claims and Dent Provider Revenue…
HealthJoy and Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company have teamed up. Through the partnership, HealthJoy can now direct the employees of its clients to the drug company when it offers a cheaper option for generic drugs. The post HealthJoy, Cost Plus Drugs Partner To Reduce Drug Costs for Employers appeared first on MedCity News.
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By MATTHEW HOLT A long time ago in a different country, there was a landslide election from a population looking for change. And change they got. Americans had been campaigning for national health care since 1917. There had been failures in 1933 and 1946 and 1961. But in 1965 they got it. Sort of. But…
Ever since Larry Wilkewitz retired more than 20 years ago from a wood products company, he’s had a commercial Medicare Advantage plan from the insurer Humana. But two years ago, he heard about Peak Health, a new Advantage plan started by the West Virginia University Health System, where his doctors practice. It was cheaper and…
With data from open enrollment now coming in, we no longer need to rely on guesswork. Let’s take stock of where the ACA Marketplace stands today and what it means for our healthcare system. The post ACA Stress Test: Four Key Takeaways from This Year’s Open Enrollment appeared first on MedCity News.
Far more severe than typical “morning sickness,” HG locks women in a debilitating cycle of nausea, vomiting, and dehydration, which can lead to serious health complications, including weight loss, neurological defects in infants, and even maternal suicide. The post A New Prescription for Hyperemesis Gravidarum: Why We Should Rethink “Morning Sickness” appeared first on MedCity…