Value-Based Payment Model Pilot Extended in California
Pilot seeks to assess how integrated care and risk-based payments can both lower healthcare costs and improve performance
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Private Equity Is Picking Up Biologics CDMO Avid Bioservices in $1.1B Acquisition
CDMO Avid Bioservices is being acquired by the private equity firms GHO Capital Partners and Ampersand Capital Partners. Avid specializes in manufacturing biologic products for companies at all stages of development. The post Private Equity Is Picking Up Biologics CDMO Avid Bioservices in $1.1B Acquisition appeared first on MedCity News.
What are the health benefits of the accelerated approval pathway for new cancer treatments?
That is the question that a paper by Wong et al. (2024) aims to answer. FDA use the accelerated approval (AA) pathway to expedite the availability of drugs for serious or life-threatening conditions when a drug demonstrates an effect on a surrogate endpoint that is reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit, or on a clinical…
KFF Health Tracking Poll: Views of the One Big Beautiful Bill
This poll finds two-thirds of the public view the “One Big Beautiful Bill” legislation unfavorably, and its favorability erodes further when people hear about its potential health impacts. As Congress debates changes to Medicaid and the ACA as part of the bill, each program’s popularity is at a record high.
The EHR Was Built to Store Data — It Wasn’t Built to Orchestrate Care
The next evolution in digital health is layering intelligent orchestration on top of the EHR to activate care in real time. It’s a platform plus orchestration layer, powered by AI and designed for action. The post The EHR Was Built to Store Data — It Wasn’t Built to Orchestrate Care appeared first on MedCity News.
Johnson & Johnson Takes the 340B Drug Rebate Fight to Federal Court
Johnson & Johnson is suing the federal agencies overseeing the 340B program that makes discounted medicines more accessible to uninsured and underserved patients. J&J contends the Health Resources Services Administration can’t legally oppose its plan to implement a new rebate plan for certain 340B drugs. The post Johnson & Johnson Takes the 340B Drug Rebate…
Aegis Digital Consortium Adds Three Health System Members
Innovation consortium has grown to 14 health systems with the addition of Yale New Haven Health System, Keck Medicine of USC, and Hartford HealthCare
An Arm and a Leg: Fight Health Insurance — With Help From AI
Meet Holden Karau: a San Francisco Bay Area software engineer who created an AI tool to help appeal insurance denials. Her project, Fight Health Insurance, is a labor of love. It draws on her tech expertise and years of experience fighting health insurance: for gender-affirming care, for rehab after getting hit by a car, and…
Long-Term Care Facilities Must Provide Addiction Care, Advocates Say
When you think about the opioid crisis, the image of adults in their 20s, 30s, even sometimes those who are middle-aged, may come to mind. Rightly so, since most overdose deaths occur in people between ages 25 and 64. But did you know older adults are increasingly at risk of overdosing from opioids, too? In fact, from 2021…
Mapping the Uneven Burden of Rising ACA Marketplace Premium Payments due to Enhanced Tax Credit Expiration
Enhanced premium tax credits expire at the end of this year. Among those with incomes over 400% poverty who are losing the tax credit altogether, the impact will be greatest for those whose unsubsidized premiums are highest: older Marketplace enrollees and those living in higher-premium locales. The maps in this brief show how much average…