Medicaid Is Paying for More Dental Care. GOP Cuts Threaten To Reverse the Trend.
Star Quinn moved to Kingsport, Tennessee, in 2023, the same year the state began covering…
Medicaid Is Paying for More Dental Care. GOP Cuts Threaten To Reverse the Trend.
Star Quinn moved to Kingsport, Tennessee, in 2023, the same year the state began covering dental costs for about 600,000 low-income adults enrolled in Medicaid. But when Quinn chipped a tooth and it became infected, she could not find a dentist near her home who would accept her government health coverage and was taking new…
Families Defend Disability Services Amid Medicaid Cuts
Families of Idahoans with disabilities say their lives could be upended as lawmakers in the state’s Republican-dominated legislature mull sweeping cuts. Services at risk include the 24/7 care that allows a 39-year-old with cerebral palsy to live independently; the in-home caregiving that lets a 26-year-old with brain damage from a hemorrhage at birth stay in…
Health Gorilla Calls Epic Lawsuit ‘Attack on Interoperability’ in Motion to Dismiss
Health data company Health Gorilla filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit from Epic and several healthcare providers alleging inappropriate access to nearly 300,000 patient records. The case highlights ongoing questions about governance and standards for national health data sharing, with Health Gorilla arguing the dispute should be handled through interoperability networks’ internal processes rather…
MedCity FemFwd: Inside Build Health International’s New Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone
In this episode, we’re joined by Allison Adamson, an architect at Build Health International. We discuss Build Health International’s new Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone. The post MedCity FemFwd: Inside Build Health International’s New Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone appeared first on MedCity News.
GoodRx Launches Employer Program to Help Subsidize High-Cost Brand Drugs
GoodRx launched GoodRx Employer Direct, a program that allows employers to subsidize manufacturer-sponsored prices for high-cost brand medications like GLP-1s without adding them to their health insurance benefits. The post GoodRx Launches Employer Program to Help Subsidize High-Cost Brand Drugs appeared first on MedCity News.
Atrium Therapeutics Launches With $270M for RNA Therapies Addressing Rare Cardio Conditions
Atrium spun out of Avidity Biosciences, which Novartis acquired in a $12 billion deal. The Atrium pipeline is led by two RNA therapies with a path to the clinic for rare inherited cardiological disorders that have no FDA-approved drugs. The post Atrium Therapeutics Launches With $270M for RNA Therapies Addressing Rare Cardio Conditions appeared first…
The U.S. Keeps Failing the March of Dimes Report Card. Here’s One Gap We Can Close Right Now
Now is the time to build a system where every pregnant person, regardless of zip code, ethnicity, or insurance status, can access the level of care their pregnancy demands. The post The U.S. Keeps Failing the March of Dimes Report Card. Here’s One Gap We Can Close Right Now appeared first on MedCity News.
Solving the Psychological Safety Problem in Healthcare
Safety threats impact more than what is physically visible. The emotional toll is crushing the healthcare workforce from the inside out, and until the erosion of psychological safety is addressed, the battle to combat workplace violence will continue. The post Solving the Psychological Safety Problem in Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
ICE, ALS, Addiction Medicine, and Robotic Ultrasounds: Journalists Sound Off on All That and More
KFF Health News Southern California correspondent Claudia Boyd-Barrett discussed how family members and lawyers of those in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody are struggling to find them in California hospitals on CapRadio’s Insight With Vicki Gonzalez on Feb. 25. Click here to hear Boyd-Barrett on Insight With Vicki Gonzalez. Read Boyd-Barrett’s “‘I Can’t Tell You’:…
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires, Exits and Layoffs
February has seen a slew of executive hires, promotions and layoffs across the healthcare industry. For instance, the CDC, Nabla and symplr named new executives. There were also layoffs at organizations including Walgreens, Cigna and Merck. The post Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires, Exits and Layoffs appeared first on MedCity News.
