A decade ago, federal officials drafted a plan to discourage Medicare Advantage health insurers from overcharging the government by billions of dollars — only to abruptly back off amid an “uproar” from the industry, newly released court filings show. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published the draft regulation in January 2014. The rule…
Owen Tripp is CEO of Included Health. It started way back in the 2010s as a second opinion service but now has added telehealth, continuous primary care, behavioral health and guidance for its populations. He’s taken to calling what they do in one personalized healthcare. Underlying all this is a data integration and analytics platform…
From AI to value-based care, three VCs shared their controversial takes on healthcare during a recent panel discussion at the MedCity INVEST conference. The post 3 Health Investors Share Their Most Controversial Industry Takes appeared first on MedCity News.
Improving the identification and validation of disease-specific drug targets in a cell-type and patient-specific manner early on will not only reduce the failure rate and cost that is so inherent in current drug development processes but also allow the development of more effective precision medicines, improving patient outcomes. The post The Future of Drug Discovery…
Celeste Health Solutions launched on Wednesday. The company works with employers and offers a range of point solutions and provides administrative support. The post How One Company Is Easing Employers’ Administrative Headaches appeared first on MedCity News.
GREENVILLE, Miss. — Cedric Sturdevant woke up with “a bit of depression” but made it to church, as he does every Sunday. In a few days, he would drive from Mississippi to Washington, D.C., to join HIV advocates at an April rally against the Trump administration’s actions. It had clawed back more than $11 billion…
For several years, Fred Neary had been seeing five doctors at the Baylor Scott & White Health system, whose 52 hospitals serve central and northern Texas, including Neary’s home in Dallas. But in October, his Humana Medicare Advantage plan — an alternative to government-run Medicare — warned that Baylor and the insurer were fighting over…
Georgia is one of dozens of states that require health-care facilities to ask for permission to build or expand by obtaining “certificates of need.” Basically, state regulators get to decide whether a town needs a new hospital or long-term care center. If the need is deemed real, they’re granted a “CON.” The intent of the…
VA’s Electronic Health Record Modernization Office expects to go live at 13 sites in 2026
The rapidly spreading wildfires that have transformed much of Los Angeles County into a raging hellscape are not only upending the lives of tens of thousands of residents and business owners, but also stressing the region’s hospitals, health clinics, first responders, and nursing homes. At least one medical clinic burned down. Senior patients were evacuated…