UnitedHealth Leaders Say Costs ‘Remain Stubbornly High’
While again pointing to pressures from the No Surprises Act arbitration process, the industry giant’s executives also say that care intensity trends are “bending in a more stable direction.”
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A Closer Look at State Directed Payments for Nursing Home Services
Building on previous analysis of state directed payments (SDPs), this issue brief takes a closer look at SDPs for nursing home services.
New Arrivals in the ER? Georgia Gears Up To Solve Rural Maternal Health Crisis
LAVONIA, Ga. — It had been a decade since Kara Holden last had a baby. But as the former obstetric nurse prepared for her fourth child, her head was swimming with contingency plans. The labor and delivery unit where she used to work in this rural northeastern Georgia community is no longer open. So, she…
States Are Forcing Hospitals To Offer More People Financial Aid. In Oregon, It’s Working.
Four years ago, Oregon hospitals were under fire from state authorities and patient advocates. Hospitals, critics said, had made it too hard for patients to apply for and receive help paying their bills. Within months, the state enacted a sweeping law that required hospitals to proactively screen patients and give financial aid to those who…
Medicine Gave Itself a Code for Diabetes Remission. A Year Later, the Payment System Still Can’t See It.
By HANA KAHLEOVA “Will this only get worse?” Patients with type 2 diabetes have asked me some version of that question for my entire career. For most of it, the honest answer was “probably.” We treated diabetes as a one-way street: glucose climbs, medications pile up, complications follow. Good care slowed the slope. It didn’t…
FDA Official Believes GenAI-enabled Tools Will Need to Be Assessed Like a Physician
Rick Abramson, a radiologist by training and the director of FDA’s Digital Health Center of Excellence said, “We ended up putting out this idea that maybe these devices are starting to behave a little bit more like me as a physician than a heart valve or a defibrillator.” The post FDA Official Believes GenAI-enabled Tools…
Readily Secures $11M for Compliance Intelligence Platform
The Series A round was led by Define Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator and the California Health Care Foundation Innovation Fund. The post Readily Secures $11M for Compliance Intelligence Platform appeared first on MedCity News.
NAACOS Award Winners Share Keys to Success
Clinical leaders from Bryan Health Connect ACO, Ochsner Accountable Care Network, and TriValley Primary Care discuss lessons learned
GSK Immunotherapy Gets Accelerated FDA Approval for Treating Rectal Cancer
The GSK cancer immunotherapy Jemperli is now approved for treating advanced cases of rectal cancer harboring a particular genetic signature. It’s a label expansion for Jemperli, which was initially approved as a treatment for endometrial cancer The post GSK Immunotherapy Gets Accelerated FDA Approval for Treating Rectal Cancer appeared first on MedCity News.
