[Sponsored] Leasing allows healthcare facilities more freedom to acquire up-to-date medical equipment without the need for immediate capital investment, opening doors for smaller and newer enterprises. The post What Are the Benefits of Leasing Medical Equipment for Healthcare Facilities? appeared first on MedCity News.
California public school teacher Mollie Blustein planned her pregnancy so that her daughter would arrive during summer break. But when the elementary school teacher went into premature labor and delivered her baby two weeks before the end of school, she faced another stressor: a huge pay cut. The majority of California’s roughly 300,000 teachers don’t…
WebMD Ignite, CCS Health and Medicine for the Greater Good bring complementary strengths to rural health platform
Cuando la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris cruzó el escenario del debate el martes 10 por la noche para darle la mano al ex presidente Donald Trump, fue la primera vez que los dos se conocían en persona. Fue un breve y raro momento de cordialidad en un enfrentamiento marcado por declaraciones falsas y, a veces, bizarras…
Gilead Sciences is acquiring Ouro Medicines, a startup developing T cell engagers for a range of autoimmune diseases. Separately, Gilead is negotiating a deal with Galapagos to share in the development and potential commercialization of the Ouro drug. The post Gilead Sciences Gains an Opportunity for Immune System Reset With $1.7B Ouro Acquisition appeared first…
The Ohio High Value Network is led by Cibolo Health, which has led similar efforts in North Dakota and Minnesota
Some critics of Medicaid expansion have argued that expansion diverts resources away from other groups of Medicaid enrollees, including people with disabilities and children, and that expansion enrollees are “able-bodied” implying they have minimal health care needs. However, data show that expansion states spend more per enrollee overall and on each eligibility group than non-expansion…
Covered California, the state’s health insurance marketplace, has hit a record 1.8 million enrollees and the number could climb higher ahead of a Jan. 31 open enrollment deadline, due in large part to enhanced subsidies that have made plans more affordable. But the state’s progress in extending health coverage to all residents could come to…
A recent paper by Kacerek and Mattingly (2025) aims to answer why certain drugs are defined as “specialty” drugs and others are not. They first cite an Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report: The OIG found that there was no standard definition in Medicaid and that Medicaid programs used more than 100 different characteristics to…
By MATTHEW HOLT For those of you waiting for the Labcorp, Blue Shield of California, Brown & Toland Physicians Physicians update, the ball has been moved a couple of years down the field. If you want to catch up here is part 1, part 2 and part 3) You’ll recall we left it with a mystery…