Study: Telehealth Utilization Remains High Within Mental Healthcare
Mental healthcare has the highest telehealth usage rate and the highest no-show odds, researchers report
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An Arm and a Leg: A Listener Fighting the Good Fight
Joey Ballard is an internal medicine resident at the University of Illinois-Chicago. He wrote to “An Arm and a Leg” about a resolution the American Medical Association recently adopted calling on hospitals to do more to make sure patients who qualify for charity care get it. And that legislators and regulators make sure that’s happening….
Teens, Drugs, and Overdose: Contrasting Pre-Pandemic and Current Trends
This brief analyzes the latest CDC data on adolescent overdose deaths, finding that from 2022 to 2023, there was a small reduction in overdose fatalities among adolescents (from 721 to 708 deaths). Additionally, the synthetic opioid, fentanyl, has largely driven the increase in adolescent drug fatalities since the pandemic began, accounting for 76% of these…
The Connected Patient Experience: 3 Tips to Empower Healthcare Delivery Through Innovation
Patients no longer want to rely upon only whatever snippets of information they get from their doctor at an annual or semiannual checkup. They’re looking for a fully connected patient experience. Healthcare organizations need to know what that looks like, how to build it, and how they fit into the full picture. The post The…
Eli Lilly Plans $4.5B Medicine Foundry to Foster Innovations in Drug Manufacturing
Lilly Medicine Foundry will research new ways to manufacture medicines. Eli Lilly says in addition to supporting the manufacturing of drugs for clinical trials, manufacturing innovations from the site will be transferred to the company’s other facilities for use in full-scale drug production. The post Eli Lilly Plans $4.5B Medicine Foundry to Foster Innovations in…
Eliminating the ACA Medicaid Expansion Match Could Reduce Total Medicaid Spending by Up To $1.9 Trillion Over 10 Years and End Coverage for 20 Million People
A new KFF analysis finds that a congressional proposal to significantly cut federal spending on the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion could reduce total Medicaid spending by up to nearly one-fifth, or $1.9 trillion, over a 10-year period, and end Medicaid coverage for as many as 20 million people. The impacts would be felt in…More
Medicare Spending was 27% More for People who Disenrolled from Medicare Advantage than Similar People in Traditional Medicare
This analysis looks at traditional Medicare spending among people who choose to disenroll from Medicare Advantage and obtain coverage under traditional Medicare during the annual Medicare open enrollment period. It compares their traditional Medicare spending (Parts A and B) in the year following disenrollment to similar people who were continuously covered by traditional Medicare, using…
Houston Stevens – Bringing a Culture of Service Excellence to EVS
Working at the Four Seasons hotel in Washington, D.C., Houston Stevens provided valuable services to some of the world’s most well-known people: Michael Jackson, Prince and Whitney Houston, as well as international diplomats such as former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. After more than 20 years of experience at the Four Seasons, The Mirage and…
Immigrant Advocate: Revoking Dreamers’ Health Insurance Access Will Impact Providers and Patients
An estimated 750,000 to 2 million people would lose health insurance with proposed rule, with the potential to further burden EDs
A Sneak Peek of INVEST 2025 Agenda
Among the topics INVEST will highlight are AI in life sciences, the investor perspective in healthcare and strategic priorities for hospitals. The post A Sneak Peek of INVEST 2025 Agenda appeared first on MedCity News.