Deal or No Deal? States Prepare for Congress To Act at the Last Minute on Obamacare
Saturday is the day that nearly 24 million customers can start purchasing health plans on healthcare.gov and the state-run Obamacare exchanges. Higher prices…
Deal or No Deal? States Prepare for Congress To Act at the Last Minute on Obamacare
Saturday is the day that nearly 24 million customers can start purchasing health plans on healthcare.gov and the state-run Obamacare exchanges. Higher prices and uncertainty await many of those shoppers. Average premiums are expected to more than double. The directors who manage marketplace enrollment in states including Maryland, California, Pennsylvania, and Idaho told me and my colleague Julie Appleby that people are wondering how they’ll scrape together hundreds — or even thousands — of dollars more next year to pay for these…
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires, Exits and Layoffs
October has seen a slew of executive hires, exits and layoffs across the healthcare industry. For instance, Eli Lilly, CommonSpirit Health and HLM Venture Partners welcomed new executives. There were also layoffs at organizations including Genentech and Jefferson Health. The post Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires, Exits and Layoffs appeared first on MedCity…
Liver Complications Lead FDA to Stop Tests of Intellia Gene-Editing Therapy for a Rare Disease
The FDA clinical hold covers two Phase 3 studies for nexiguran ziclumeran, or nex-z, an experimental gene-editing therapy for transthyretin amyloidosis. Nex-z uses the CRISPR gene-editing technology to inactivate the gene that codes for the protein driving this rare disease. The post Liver Complications Lead FDA to Stop Tests of Intellia Gene-Editing Therapy for a…
Challenges with Implementing Work Requirements: Findings from a Survey of State Medicaid Programs
To better understand how states are preparing for Medicaid work requirements, states were asked to discuss anticipated challenges to implementing work requirements by the end of 2026, including related system changes and data matching.
Creating Exceptional Patient Experiences Starts with Identity Intelligence
We must work together across the care continuum to establish both local and network-trusted identity data management capabilities that can unify patient data across fragmented data silos at both the database layer and the front-end digital and physical access layer. The post Creating Exceptional Patient Experiences Starts with Identity Intelligence appeared first on MedCity News.
Innovation Fatigue is Rampant: What’s the Rx to Fix It?
It’s not the flashiest technologies or rapid-speed AI breakthroughs that can do it. It’s the technologies laser-focused on the unglamorous but all-consuming coordination problems that suck up medical staff’s time, stress them out, and compromise patient care. The post Innovation Fatigue is Rampant: What’s the Rx to Fix It? appeared first on MedCity News.
Report Finds Healthcare Navigation Is at a Crossroads
[Sponsored] The 2025 Benefits Sentiment Index is based on a survey of 120 benefit consultants to self-insured employers and is sponsored by Quantum Health. The post Report Finds Healthcare Navigation Is at a Crossroads appeared first on MedCity News.
Better Treatments Buoy Multiple-Myeloma Patients, Bound by Research Cuts and Racial Disparities
For more than a year, Diane Hunter, now 72, had been experiencing vague symptoms — pain in her spine and hips, nausea, exhaustion, thirst, and frequent urination. Her primary care physician had ruled out diabetes before finally chalking up her ailments to getting older. But months of intense back pain eventually landed her in the…
At The Hollow in Florida, the ‘Medical Freedom’ Movement Finds Its Base Camp
VENICE, Fla. — MAGA and MAHA are happily married in Florida, and nowhere more at home than in Sarasota County, where on a humid October night a crowd of several hundred gathered to honor state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, his wife, and an unlicensed Canadian radiologist who treats cancer with horse paste. The event, titled…
A Bite, a Bill, and a Bureaucratic Chill in Winning Halloween Haikus
Nearly 100 health care-themed haikus crept into our inbox this Halloween. See the winning poems and top runners-up from KFF Health News’ seventh annual Halloween haiku contest, illustrated by Oona Zenda. The judges’ favorites were inspired by tick migration, Medicaid work requirements, and rising copays. Follow KFF Health News’ social media accounts (X, Instagram, and…
