The growing use of AI chatbots for medical questions should not be seen as a threat to the healthcare system, but as a signal that patients aren’t trying to replace their physicians; they’re trying to find them. The post ChatGPT for Medical Use Is a Cry for Help. We Need Better Medical Triage appeared first…
False claims about the safety of mifepristone are driving legislative and investigative action in Congress, even as major medical organizations and decades of clinical evidence support the drug’s safety. And competing interpretations of what censorship and free speech mean are impacting how health misinformation is moderated.
This analysis allocates the CBO’s estimated reduction in federal spending in the Senate reconciliation bill across states based on KFF’s state-level data and where possible, prior modeling work; and shows the federal spending reductions relative to KFF’s projections of federal spending by state under current law.
Employer groups praised a bill aimed at boosting healthcare competition and lowering costs by banning anticompetitive insurer-provider contracts. The post Employer Groups Applaud Bill that Aims to Spur Competition in Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
[Sponsored] Pharmacy benefit managers are under scrutiny for their business practices that are often blamed for contributing to the rising costs of prescription drugs in America. But one PBM is paving another way that alters the traditional operating model. The post MedCity Pivot Podcast: A Flexible Approach to Pharmacy Benefits Management appeared first on MedCity…
[Sponsored] Yusuf Qasim, President of Payments Optimization at Zelis, discussed how the company is transforming healthcare payments from a fragmented, patchwork system into a modern, digital infrastructure. The post Refining the Medical Billing Infrastructure to Reduce Payment Bottlenecks for Providers and Payers appeared first on MedCity News.
By MATT McCORD American manufacturing is making a comeback. Driven by tariffs, supply chain instability, and shifting economic priorities, companies are reshoring production—reinvesting in U.S. labor and operations. But there’s one major obstacle still standing in the way: the crushing cost of American healthcare. For decades, U.S. employers have overpaid for healthcare without improving outcomes….
If you want to hear a little about Commons Clinic from Benjamin Schwartz, MD but rather more from me about who knows what, it’s on The Surgeon’s Record podcast — Matthew Holt
That is the tile of my recent paper in the Journal of Medical Economics with co-authors Kyi-Sin Than, Sanjana Muthukrishnan, Jincy Paulose, Ver Bilano and Nicholas Kuypers. The abstract is below: ObjectiveParoxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is a rare and debilitating hematological disease with significant economic burden. Despite the availability of multiple therapies, there is a…
Mental healthcare has the highest telehealth usage rate and the highest no-show odds, researchers report