HELENA, Mont. — As Republican legislative leaders in Montana girded for this year’s battle over whether to extend Medicaid expansion in the state, they took aim at one of the program’s biggest backers: hospitals. If Montana’s hospitals wanted to extend the government health insurance program that cost taxpayers about $1 billion in 2024, and benefit…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents with low incomes and disabilities. The state enrolls twice as many people as New York and more than three times as many as Texas — the two states with the largest number of Medicaid participants after California….
That is the topic of a paper by Katherine Wagner (2022). The paper won the 2025 American Economic Journal: Economic Policy best papers award (despite being published 3 years ago). In her paper, Dr. Wagner uses data from 20 US Atlantic and Gulf Coast states between 2001 and 2017. Housing valuation data come from Zillow…
Free Market Health acquired Beeline Rx, a tech company that streamlines the prior authorization process for specialty drugs. The post Free Market Health Acquires Beeline Rx to Streamline Specialty Prior Auth appeared first on MedCity News.
The country’s nursing workforce has seen slight recovery since the pandemic, but burnout and stress continue to fuel high levels of turnover. New research reveals troubling retention trends — with more than 138,000 nurses having left the workforce since 2022 and 40% of nurses planning to leave the profession within five years. The post Nursing…
Ten ACOs and value-based care partners are advocating for the CMS Innovation Center to continue the model beyond its current expiration date in 2026
Cleveland Clinic recently selected Ambience Healthcare for AI clinical documentation, with an eye on how these platforms are likely to evolve
Roche said it will expand existing sites and construct new U.S. manufacturing and R&D infrastructure in areas such as gene therapy and cardiometabolic disease. The plans follow U.S. capital expenditure announcements from several big pharmaceutical companies. The post Roche Commits to $50B in U.S. Manufacturing and R&D Investments as Pharma Tariffs Loom appeared first on…
The future of telehealth is trust, combined with patient education. As the market matures, all parties — providers, regulators, and platforms — must collaborate to sustain that trust. The post Telehealth Fraud & Compliance: Preventing ‘Pill Mills’ While Ensuring Access to Care appeared first on MedCity News.
A greater weight must be placed on vaccine manufacturing and distribution, both in the United States and worldwide, as we saw major imbalances in the world’s response to Covid-19 that highlighted gaps in accessibility. The post The Critical Role Of Regional Vaccine Manufacturing In The Next Global Pandemic appeared first on MedCity News.