CMS Halts New Medicare Enrollment for Hospice, Home Care Amid Fraud Crackdown
CMS imposed a six-month nationwide freeze on new Medicare enrollments for hospices and home health…
CMS Halts New Medicare Enrollment for Hospice, Home Care Amid Fraud Crackdown
CMS imposed a six-month nationwide freeze on new Medicare enrollments for hospices and home health agencies as part of a broader crackdown on fraud in the sectors. The post CMS Halts New Medicare Enrollment for Hospice, Home Care Amid Fraud Crackdown appeared first on MedCity News.
Medicaid Mental Health and Substance Use: Expansion Trends and the Fiscal Pressure Ahead
This brief examines recent state trends in Medicaid behavioral health coverage and payment and state coverage of select treatment models for people with serious mental illness—a population that has historically faced significant barriers to care. This includes details about coverage of Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) (as a provider type), Assertive Community Treatment (ACT),…
How Value-Based Care Could Finally Fix What’s Broken in Autism Treatment
The clinicians working in this system are often deeply committed to their patients. The problem is the system itself which rewards the quantity of time and largely ignores the quality of the treatment’s impact. The post How Value-Based Care Could Finally Fix What’s Broken in Autism Treatment appeared first on MedCity News.
Stigma Is The Real Delay In Healthcare
The longer someone waits to seek help, the more their condition progresses, the harder it becomes to intervene, and the easier it becomes to keep waiting. Delay compounds. That’s what makes it so dangerous, and so worth targeting directly. The post Stigma Is The Real Delay In Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
The Changing Landscape of New Approach Methodologies
Now more than ever, NAMs need to be considered a core aspect of modern drug development – and scientists, decision-makers, regulators and governments must keep pace with this evolving landscape to ensure they are equipped to deliver the next-generation of therapies. The post The Changing Landscape of New Approach Methodologies appeared first on MedCity News.
Trump and Kennedy Seek To Relax Safeguards for AI Healthcare Tools
Paul Boyer, a psychotherapist for Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California, is experiencing the AI revolution firsthand. He’s a little underwhelmed. The health giant has rolled out a new suite of note-taking software, made by healthcare AI pioneer Abridge, intended to summarize a patient’s visit at supersonic speed. For many clinicians, the technology soothes one of…
RFK Jr. Swaps Vaccine Talk for Healthy Foods and Reading to Tots in Push To Woo Voters
TOLEDO, Ohio — The little boy, dressed in a Toy Story sweatshirt, wrapped himself around the nation’s health secretary. “What do you guys want to be when you grow up?” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked a carpet full of preschoolers. “A dinosaur!” the boy replied, squeezing tighter. Just weeks ago,…
How will Europe’s economies compare to the US by 2030?
That is the question Luis Garicano asks in his recent post. He relies on projections from the 2025 IMF World Economic Outlook. On the positive side, Eastern European countries’ economies are likely to converge with the US. While we have spent a decade complaining about Europe’s stagnation, a real positive convergence story has been unfolding…
Officers Eat Last
By KIM BELLARD A New York Times interview with Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D – Mass) by Bret Stephens caught my attention. I am somewhat familiar with Mr. Stephens from his various pieces in NYT; he is definitely a conservative, but in the old, pre-MAGA sense where it meant you worried about spending but you didn’t…
New Podcast on Primary Care
This is one of those “Coming Soon” announcements. I spent the weekend with the wonderful gang from what I affectionately call Camp Claudia Cult, a group of mostly Californian policy wonks led by Claudia Williams, who these days is at the UC Berkeley School of public health. As you may have noticed I’ve been spending…
