I’ve been checking on the progress of the Affordable Care Act’s open enrollment season, which is happening as Congress continues to debate whether to extend the subsidies that have given consumers extra help paying their health insurance premiums. The story drew responses from readers facing large cost increases if these enhanced subsidies expire. They wrote…
Codoxo’s funding was led by CVS Health Ventures and included participation from Echo Health Ventures, Sands Capital and 111 West Capital. The post Codoxo Raises $35M to Prevent Healthcare Payment Errors appeared first on MedCity News.
ACO model includes 10-year pathway toward sustainable benchmarks and capitated population-based payments to support team-based care
Healthcare organizations must orient their models around outcomes rather than technology and capabilities alone — and that can be done through novel accountable partnerships built on a care enablement platform. The post Bringing Joy Back to Healthcare: The Power of Accountable Partnerships appeared first on MedCity News.
AI voice agents can improve call center customer service – here are some things to consider when exploring options. The post Empathy Meets Efficiency: How AI is Transforming Medicare Call Centers appeared first on MedCity News.
A bankruptcy judge blocked an attempt by a nursing home chain’s primary investor to shield himself from settlement payments and liability in lawsuits alleging hundreds of patient injuries and deaths, encouraging those pursuing millions in damages. Genesis HealthCare, once the nation’s largest nursing home chain, filed for Chapter 11 reorganization bankruptcy in July with a…
Lawmakers in several states are working to expand medical debt protections for patients, even after the Trump administration reversed course and told states they don’t have authority to take action on credit reporting. In Alaska and Michigan, legislators are nonetheless advancing bills to keep medical debt off consumer credit reports. The attorneys general of California…
PHILADELPHIA — Leon Harris, 35, is intimately familiar with the devastation guns can inflict. Robbers shot him in the back nearly two decades ago, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down. The bullet remains lodged in his spine. “When you get shot,” he said, “you stop thinking about the future.” He is anchored by his…
Six days after a senior FDA official sent a sweeping internal email claiming that covid vaccines had caused the deaths of “at least 10 children,” 12 former FDA commissioners released an extraordinary warning in the Dec. 3 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. They wrote that the claims and policy changes in the…
Maxwell Kruzic said he was in such “crippling” stomach pain on Oct. 5, 2023, that he had to pull off the road twice as he drove himself to the emergency room at Mercy Regional Medical Center in Durango, Colorado. “It was the worst pain of my life,” he said. Kruzic was seen immediately because hospital…