A new Trilliant Health report reveals vast price variation for identical healthcare services, even for procedures delivered at the exact same facility. Allison Oakes, Trilliant’s chief research officer, urged providers to prove they are delivering true value for the cost and pressed employers to leverage their purchasing power to demand higher-value care. The post Same…
Alternative health plan designs represent much more than a passing trend. They are actively testing long-standing assumptions about how benefits should be structured, delivered, and experienced. The post Alternative Health Plan Designs Are Reshaping Employer Benefits appeared first on MedCity News.
By KIM BELLARD Over the years, one area of tech/health tech I have avoided writing about are brain-computer interfaces (B.C.I.). In part, it was because I thought they were kind of creepy, and, in larger part, because I was increasing finding Elon Musk, whose Neuralink is one of the leaders in the field, even more…
This analysis uses the 2022 American Community Survey to provide an overview of demographic characteristics, wages, and health insurance coverage of direct care workers, which include home health aides, personal care aides, nursing assistants, licensed practical nurses (LPNs), and registered nurses (RNs). his analysis looks both broadly at the direct care workforce as well as…
We’re in the middle of a fundamental shift that’s giving consumers more power and choice over their health coverage while creating healthy competition in the marketplace. Consumer expectations are justifiably rising, and people want a much more pleasant, frictionless and digital experience from their health plan – just like they get everyplace else in their…
Navigation program was associated with lower expenditures and hospital-based utilization in both Medicaid and Medicare intervention groups
It’s critical that healthcare organizations delivering on the program’s promise not be torpedoed by the “bad actors” The post The Case for 340B Done Right appeared first on MedCity News.
Ethical AI and trustworthy AI frameworks should be table stakes for healthcare and life sciences organizations seeking to innovate with AI. The post From Ethics to Trust: Strategic Guardrails for Safe, Secure, Effective AI in Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
This chart collection draws on recent KFF poll findings to provide an in-depth look at the public’s attitudes toward prescription drugs and their prices. Results include Americans’ opinions on drug affordability, pharmaceutical companies, and various potential measures that could lower prices, including the Inflation Reduction Act.
Reframing transportation as infrastructure, not a support service, means holding it to the same standard as any other component of care delivery. That requires these three things. The post Healthcare Access Depends on Infrastructure: Why Rural Communities Can’t Afford Fragmentation appeared first on MedCity News.