Ingrid is one of the OGs of customer service in health plans, PBMs and as she insists startups. She and her co-founder Marin Nelson have built Sobrynth–a company that is taking a whole new approach to helping with (primarily) alcohol addiction in the workplace. Despite the rise of mental health solutions, EAP, the focus on…
The share of people who are Hispanic or Latino has grown to a little more than a quarter of the population in Elko, Nevada, a small city in the remote northeastern corner of the state. That growth in diversity has also led to an increasing number of people who speak a language other than English…
Hospital margins improved in June as revenue gains outpaced patient volume — but Kaufman Hall’s latest data shows that financial gaps between high- and low-performing organizations persist, with increasing expenses and bad debt threatening long-term stability. The post Hospital Margins Grow, Yet Bad Debt & Expenses Continue to Climb appeared first on MedCity News.
Novartis’s Cosentyx failed to beat a placebo in a Phase 3 clinical trial in giant cell arteritis. The antibody drug was being developed as an alternative to Roche and AbbVie drugs whose approved uses include treating this autoimmune disorder affecting blood vessels. The post Blockbuster Novartis Drug Fails Key Test Hoped to Expand Its Use…
AI agents excel in operating within compliance frameworks, offloading structured tasks while escalating edge cases to human providers. They show great promise in helping reclaim clinical capacity and reduce the mounting administration associated with modern medicine. The post Easing Frontline Pressure: How AI Can Lift the Administrative Burden Off Care Teams appeared first on MedCity…
That is the question considered by Wouters and Kuha (2024) in a recent Health Affairs article. The authors use IQVIA data between 1982 and 2024 on the timing of drug launches and estimate median delay times using a Kaplan Meier estimates. They find that: From the first launch globally, the median time to availability was…
Digital nutrition company Culina Health is joining forces with Adventist HealthCare’s clinically integrated network of more than 2,400 providers. Under the partnership, Adventist physicians will have direct access to Culina Health’s dietitians, who provide patients with virtual, personalized nutrition counseling. The post Adventist HealthCare Teams Up with Culina Health to Expand Access to Nutrition Care…
LOS ÁNGELES, CA — Mia Angulo, que está embarazada y dará a luz en mayo, vive en una tienda de campaña con su novio en el vecindario predominantemente latino de Boyle Heights. El dolor persistente por un accidente de auto ocurrido hace dos meses, sumado a una vida ya difícil, tiene a Angulo preocupada por…
The Trump administration took another step Tuesday to weaken protections for Americans with medical debt, issuing new guidance that threatens ongoing state efforts to keep that debt off consumers’ credit reports. More than a dozen states, including Washington, Oregon, California, Colorado, Minnesota, Maryland, New York, and most of New England, have enacted laws in recent…
In Washington’s debate over enacting steep funding cuts to Medicaid, words are a central battleground. Many Republican lawmakers and conservative policy officials who want to scale back the joint state-federal health program are using charged language to describe it. Language experts and advocates for Medicaid enrollees say their word choice is misleading and aims to…