In California and Other States, Dads Are Now Even With Moms in Paid Leave Claims
Karlo Campana is usually outnumbered these days. He has three young kids under age 4….
In California and Other States, Dads Are Now Even With Moms in Paid Leave Claims
Karlo Campana is usually outnumbered these days. He has three young kids under age 4. On a recent Saturday, he played a mini game of basketball with his two older kids in their Southern California home, shooting a ball into a hoop on the door, while his baby boy watched from his bouncy chair. Campana…
Hospital Beds for the Nation’s Sickest Kids Are Disappearing
Hospital units dedicated to treating the nation’s sickest kids are disappearing nationwide. In the past year alone, hospitals have closed pediatric intensive care units for critically ill kids in Montana, Oregon, and Missouri. Overnight hospital wings for kids have also shuttered in Illinois and California. Depending on the hospital, pediatric units — which are separate…
I’d Like Some Choices, Please
By KIM BELLARD Let’s say your favorite social media platform is bought by a right wing trillionaire, who espouses free speech, but only when it echoes his. You can switch to, say, Threads, but – whoops – that’s owned by Mark Zuckerberg, another of the super-rich who have turned to the right. There’s always Facebook…
Willow Acquires 2 Women’s Health Companies
Willow Innovations acquired Swehl and Momtech to expand its maternal health offerings beyond breast pumps. The post Willow Acquires 2 Women’s Health Companies appeared first on MedCity News.
Patients Deaths and Data Shortfall Spell the End for Cell Therapy Biotech Artiva
Artiva Biotherapeutics attributed one of the fatalities to a drug used to prepare patients for cell therapy and not to the cell therapy itself. But Artiva’s setbacks follow safety signals reported for autoimmune disease cell therapy programs from Novartis and Bristol Myers Squibb. The post Patients Deaths and Data Shortfall Spell the End for Cell…
HCAHPS 2.0 Is Not a Survey Update. It’s a Strategic Shift for Healthcare
By XAVIER WARTELLE The Metric Healthcare Could Never Move One statistic should capture the attention of every hospital executive. A peer-reviewed analysis published in Medical Care examined HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) performance across nearly 4,000 U.S. hospitals over an eleven-year period. Nearly every measured category improved meaningfully except one. Overall…
Frequently Asked Questions about the ACA’s Health Insurance Marketplace
What are premium tax credits and how do they work? How much can I earn and qualify for premium tax credits in the Marketplace? What income is counted in determining my eligibility for premium tax credits? Who is eligible for Marketplace premium tax credits? Can I buy health insurance outside of the Marketplace that meets…
Preguntas frecuentes sobre el Mercado de Seguros Médicos de la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio
¿Cómo funcionan los subsidios para las primas? ¿Cuánto puedo ganar y calificar para subsidios para las primas en el mercado? ¿Qué ingreso cuenta para determinar mi elegibilidad para recibir subsidios? ¿Quién es elegible para recibir subsidios para las primas? ¿Puedo comprar un seguro de salud por fuera del mercado que cumpla con todos los estándares…
HCA CEO: Exchange Attrition Will Be a ’27 Problem, Too
Patients formerly covered by exchange plans cost the health system operator another $400 million last quarter and accounted for more than 10 percent of adjusted admissions.
AcademyHealth Blueprint Calls for Stronger, More Independent Federal Health Research
AcademyHealth CEO Aaron Carroll, M.D., M.S., discusses recommendations for strengthening the federal systems that produce and use health research, data, and evaluation
