When Prevention Isn’t Enough
This webinar explores how healthcare organizations can strengthen cyber resilience, prepare for disruption and keep…
When Prevention Isn’t Enough
This webinar explores how healthcare organizations can strengthen cyber resilience, prepare for disruption and keep patient care moving when critical systems go offline.
States’ Use of Program Integrity Tools in Medicaid Home Care
This issue brief provides new information about Medicaid home care program’s use of program integrity tools from KFF’s most recent survey of state Medicaid home care programs.
NCQA Data Quality Framework to Support Digital Measure Transition
Marlene McIntyre, assistant vice president of digital solutions at NCQA, speaks with Healthcare Innovation about accelerating the transition to digital quality measurement.
The Biggest Healthcare Fix Might Not Come From a Vendor
Nobody has ever needed convincing on what to fix. What they’ve lacked is a way to act on it themselves, in something close to real time instead of on a vendor’s roadmap. The post The Biggest Healthcare Fix Might Not Come From a Vendor appeared first on MedCity News.
A Look at Waiting Lists for Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services from 2016 to 2026
This data note provides new information about waiting lists from KFF’s most recent survey of state Medicaid home care programs, including a discussion of why waiting lists are an incomplete measure of unmet need and why they are not necessarily comparable across states or over time, despite KFF’s efforts to obtain as consistent data as…
Strengthening Dental Payment Integrity Through Smarter Claim Editing
[Sponsored] Fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) continue to challenge dental plans as overtreatment, miscoding and inappropriate billing practices drive unnecessary costs and weaken payment integrity. For dental payers, the stakes extend beyond financial losses: these issues can also expose members to unnecessary procedures and consume benefits that should be preserved for appropriate care. The post…
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Divides Rural Voters, KFF-AP Poll Finds
More than a year into President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown, a poll finds that voters in rural parts of the country are divided on whether those immigration policies have benefited or harmed their communities. In the Associated Press-KFF survey of more than 2,000 rural voters in August, about a third said the Trump administration’s…
Doctors Should Keep an Eye on Your Mix of Medication. If They Don’t, You Should.
Medications can snowball as we age. Pill organizers pile up. Prescriptions that are no longer necessary can mix with other drugs to create concerning side effects. “Once you get to six or seven prescription medications, you get a nearly 100% chance of some sort of side effect or intolerance,” said physician K. Eric De Jonge,…
The Rural Radiologist Who Already Exists
By STEVEN GOODMAN The future of rural healthcare won’t be determined by how much money is invested. It will be determined by how wisely that money is used. That line gets nodded along to at every rural health conference, then quietly ignored the moment the conversation turns to solutions, because the solutions on offer are…
Immunology Startup ai3Bio Aims to Redefine What It Means to Reset the Immune System
While the immune reset field is mainly focused on depleting pathogenic B cells, ai3Bio is applying its novel approach to inflammatory T cells. The startup’s initial disease targets are autoimmune disorders of the liver that have few treatment options if any at all. The post Immunology Startup ai3Bio Aims to Redefine What It Means to…
