How More Competition and Better Connected Data Will Solve Healthcare’s Billion Dollar Problem
There are two changes that could transform the entire system. If we can do these…
How More Competition and Better Connected Data Will Solve Healthcare’s Billion Dollar Problem
There are two changes that could transform the entire system. If we can do these two things, the entire market improves. Not everyone will win, but the good products, the good distributors and the good platforms will rise to the top. The post How More Competition and Better Connected Data Will Solve Healthcare’s Billion Dollar…
A Father’s Promise: Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and Addiction for My Son
To any father that’s struggling right now, know this: your past doesn’t have to write your future. Help is out there, and you can change the trajectory of your life and that of your family. The post A Father’s Promise: Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and Addiction for My Son appeared first on MedCity News.
Different Data Source, But Same Results: Most Adults Subject to Medicaid Work Requirements Are Working or Face Barriers to Work
To understand the impact of Medicaid work requirements included in the budget reconciliation bill being debated in Congress, KFF has undertaken two difference analyses using different data sources. Using 2023 data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, this analysis looks at the share of adults who work at least 80 hours per month,…
Hackers Use AI to Amplify Email Security Threats to Healthcare
[Sponsored] A new report by Paubox calls for healthcare IT leaders to dispose of outdated assumptions about email security and address the challenges of evolving cybersecurity threats. The post Hackers Use AI to Amplify Email Security Threats to Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
California’s Much-Touted IVF Law May Be Delayed Until 2026, Leaving Many in the Lurch
California lawmakers are poised to delay the state’s much-ballyhooed new law mandating in vitro fertilization insurance coverage for millions, set to take effect July 1. Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked lawmakers to push the implementation date to January 2026, leaving patients, insurers, and employers in limbo. The law, SB 729, requires state-regulated health plans offered…
What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer
Within an hour of receiving a covid vaccination in November 2020, Utah preschool teacher Brianne Dressen felt pins and needles through her arms and legs. In the medical odyssey that followed, she suffered double vision, chronic nausea, brain fog, and profound weakness. Once a rock climber, she became a couch potato. Although Dressen’s symptoms were…
Microplastics Are Here, There, Everywhere
By KIM BELLARD Vaccine experts are going rogue in response to RFK Jr’s attacks on vaccine safety. Health insurers promise – honest…this time – to make prior authorizations less burdensome (although not, of course, to eliminate them). ChatGPT and other LLMs may be making us worse at learning. So many things to write about, but…
AHIP to simplify prior authorization process
AHIP (formerly America’s Health Insurance Plans) released a statement yesterday saying that their health plan members “announced a series of commitments to streamline, simplify and reduce prior authorization.” 48 US health plans signed off on the statement. What were AHIP’s 6 commitments? Standardizing Electronic Prior Authorization. Participating health plans will work toward implementing common, transparent submissions…
The Hospital Word Has Become a Tale of the Haves and Have-Nots
Health system performance has splintered into three distinct groups — leaders, strugglers and those stuck in the middle, according to Fitch Ratings’ Kevin Holloran. At the HFMA Annual Conference, he and Mayo Clinic CFO Dennis Dahlen discussed how technology and innovation are accelerating this divide. The post The Hospital Word Has Become a Tale of…
Why Novo Nordisk Is Dropping Its Collaboration with Hims & Hers
Novo Nordisk is ending its partnership with Hims & Hers due to concerns over its practices related to compounded GLP-1s. The post Why Novo Nordisk Is Dropping Its Collaboration with Hims & Hers appeared first on MedCity News.
