Federal regulators have blocked two private sector enrollment websites from accessing consumer information through the federal Obamacare marketplace, citing “anomalous activity.” The unusual step comes as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is under the gun to curb unauthorized enrollment and switching of Affordable Care Act plans by rogue agents. The agency received more…
John Deeken, M.D., talks about leading a PCORI-funded project that will integrate ePROs into existing workflows across nine sites at Inova
Telehealth clinic Hone Health partnered with imaging company BodySpec to give its patients access to DEXA body composition scans. The partnership seeks to help providers and patients on GLP-1s distinguish fat loss from muscle loss and better evaluate how these drugs are affecting the body. The post Beyond the Scale: How Imaging Can Help Determine…
Carolyn Dickens, 76, was sitting at her dining room table, struggling to catch her breath as her physician looked on with concern. “What’s going on with your breathing?” asked Peter Gliatto, director of Mount Sinai’s Visiting Doctors Program. “I don’t know,” she answered, so softly it was hard to hear. “Going from here to the…
A cyberattack on Stryker forced Boston Children’s Hospital to abandon a deeply embedded communications platform and rebuild secure messaging and voice capabilities in real time.
Excited to be attending ISPOR 2026 next week. I’m looking for some great plenary sessions, presenting my research on “The Extent of Treatment Response and Preference Heterogeneity in Major Depressive Disorder: Implications for Population-Level Resource Allocation” with co-authors Nadine Zawadzki and Cheryl Neslusan, and meeting up with old colleagues. See you in Philadelphia!
HarmonyCares’ Will Robinson outlines how high-needs ACOs helped CMS identify and address huge spikes in wound care spending
Los republicanos insisten en que los recortes del presidente Donald Trump a Medicaid buscaban reducir el fraude y poner a trabajar a más adultos beneficiarios del programa. Pero los efectos secundarios pueden incluir menos atención médica para niños enfermos. Algunos hospitales infantiles podrían perder miles de millones de dólares en ingresos una vez que se…
The Host Emmarie Huetteman KFF Health News Emmarie Huetteman, senior editor, oversees a team of Washington reporters, as well as “Bill of the Month” and KFF Health News’ “What the Health?” She previously spent more than a decade reporting on the federal government, most recently covering surprise medical bills, drug pricing reform, and other health policy debates…
By supporting managers, healthcare organizations can make the workplace better for nurses. That could not only improve retention but build a pipeline of nurse managers. The post The Critical Link: How Supporting Nurse Managers Can Help Nurses — And Improve Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.