Facing Regulatory, Reimbursement Changes, Pharmacy Execs Also See Opportunities
LeeAnn Miller, PharmD, of Cencora’s Accelerate Pharmacy Solutions, discusses changes involving specialty pharmacy, home infusion, and 340B
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Closing the CKD Care Gap with Value-Based Care Models
VBC models deliver significant benefits for CKD management by coordinating medical, behavioral, and social support through multidisciplinary teams. This approach enables providers to personalize care, address barriers to access, and use data-driven strategies to identify and prioritize high-risk patients. The post Closing the CKD Care Gap with Value-Based Care Models appeared first on MedCity News.
Friday Links
Expert opinions: Will MFN reduce US drug prices?Robots in maternity care.What drives company decisions on new medicine launches and UK investment?Incorporating dynamic pricing into HEOR models (dynamicpv)Tale of 2 value sets.How to handle the lows? Honesty.Integrity in journalism: Giannis edition.
AI Can’t Improve Healthcare if Clinicians and Staff Aren’t Trained to Use, Orchestrate It
Giving healthcare teams powerful AI tools without training undermines their ability to use potentially system-changing tools safely and effectively. The post AI Can’t Improve Healthcare if Clinicians and Staff Aren’t Trained to Use, Orchestrate It appeared first on MedCity News.
Health Care Heartaches: Your Winning Health Policy Valentines
Health policy has never looked so flirtatious. Every year, our readers send us valentines that make us swoon, laugh, and occasionally clutch our insurance cards. And in 2026, you did not hold back. You wrote about overcharging, rising insurance, AI in health care, and more. Here are some of our favorites, starting with the poem that stole…
Trump Team’s Planned ACA Rule Offers Its Answer to Rising Premium Costs: Catastrophic Coverage
The Trump administration has unveiled a sweeping set of regulatory proposals that would substantially change health plan offerings on the Affordable Care Act marketplace next year, aiming, it says, to provide more choice and lower premiums. But it also proposes sharply raising some annual out-of-pocket costs — to more than $27,600 for one type of…
RFK Jr. Made Promises in Order To Become Health Secretary. He’s Broken Many of Them.
One year after taking charge of the nation’s health department, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hasn’t held true to many of the promises he made while appealing to U.S. senators concerned about the longtime anti-vaccine activist’s plans for the nation’s care. Kennedy squeaked through a narrow Senate vote to be confirmed…
Clinics Sour on CMS After Agency Scraps 10-Year Primary Care Program Only Months In
CELO COMMUNITY, N.C. — On a 15-degree morning in January, a clinic in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina began to fill up with patients. An older couple in flannel pajamas sat together in the waiting room. A toddler waved as Patricia Hall walked past him, a stethoscope draped over her neck. The family physician…
Amodei Believes “AI-Enabled Autocracy” Could Be Imminent
By MIKE MAGEE Last month, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, did it again – scaring the bejesus out of societal leaders worldwide with warnings that their grip on security and governance of human populations is dangerously close to AI extinction. Amodei’s opening paragraph in his article titled “The Adolescence of Technology” wastes no time getting the reader’s…
COO of Mayo Clinic Platform Believes De-identified Data Leads to Loss of Utility for Pharma, Other Third Parties
Mayo Clinic has about 100 petabytes of structured and unstructured EHR data, and about 28 petabytes have been de-identified, but in the Mayo Clinic way. Now that data capability is being combined with institutional expertise to provide a compelling case for pharma companies looking to leverage data, AI and provider expertise in drug development The…