Rural healthcare has always run on ingenuity, resilience, and community trust. What has too often been missing is the infrastructure strong enough to match that and sustain it at scale. That is what makes this moment different. The post Building the Backbone of Rural Health: Meeting the Reality on the Ground appeared first on MedCity…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R)spent years complaining that the Biden administration was slow-walking federal approval of his plan to import lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada — a concept endorsed by Donald Trump in 2020 just before his first presidential term ended. But nearly a year since the Food and Drug Administration green-lit the state’s importation…
Imaging has become a core input into how health systems understand disease, evaluate outcomes, plan capacity, and increasingly, how they learn. The post Imaging Data Liquidity: The Foundation of Multimodal Medical Intelligence appeared first on MedCity News.
Robert Krayn is the CEO and & Dr. Georgia Caveras the CMO of Talkiatry. Robert and Georgia are quite the dynamic duo (she says, “He’s the money I’m the medicine!”). As a relative latecomer in the online mental health world, Talkiatry is trying to differentiate itself from the other big players like Lyra, Headspace, Brightside…
Foreigners seeking visas to live in the U.S. might be rejected if they have certain medical conditions, including diabetes or obesity, under a Thursday directive from the Trump administration. The guidance, issued in a cable the State Department sent to embassy and consular officials and examined by KFF Health News, directs visa officers to deem…
On What the Health? From KFF Health News, distributed by WAMU, chief Washington correspondent and host Julie Rovner sat down with Drew Altman, president and CEO of KFF, to talk about the likelihood of a national health care debate to rein in costs. As the midterm elections approach, the cost of health care is the…
Medicaid home care programs offer various supports to family caregivers such as paid caregiving, self-directed services, respite care, and caregiver training. This issue brief describes the availability of self-directed services and supports for family caregivers in Medicaid home care in 2025, before most provisions in the reconciliation law take effect.
This analysis examines early indicators of how the expiration of enhanced premium tax credits has affected effectuated enrollment levels (i.e., enrollment among people who have paid their premiums), plan selections, and out-of-pocket costs in 2026, drawing on plan selection and effectuated enrollment data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and state-based Marketplace…
Jessica Lamb says rewiring a domain with AI is the kind of large-scale change you only do if you have real CEO backing
Let’s be honest. Clinicians are taught to reduce unnecessary care. But there’s a razor-thin line between avoiding unnecessary tests and failing to believe a patient’s symptoms. The post When Listening Could Save a Life: The Human Cost of Medical Gaslighting appeared first on MedCity News.