SCAN, Costco Launch Medicare Partnership
SCAN Health Plan and Costco are partnering to provide a suite of insurance products for seniors. The post SCAN, Costco Launch Medicare Partnership appeared first on MedCity News.
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5 Questions and Answers About Medicaid and Provider Taxes
This issue brief uses data from KFF’s 2025-2026 survey of Medicaid directors and from a proposed rule on provider taxes to describe states’ current provider taxes, explore how rules governing provider taxes are changing because of the 2025 reconciliation law and the regulations implementing that law, and summarizes which changes may affect each state.
Ultragenyx Gene Therapy Becomes First FDA-Approved Treatment for Ultra-Rare Disease
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical’s Genglycos received accelerated FDA approval for glycogen storage disease type Ia, an inherited enzyme deficiency. It’s also the first approved gene therapy for Ultragenyx, which specializes in rare disease treatments. The post Ultragenyx Gene Therapy Becomes First FDA-Approved Treatment for Ultra-Rare Disease appeared first on MedCity News.
Anthropic Cyber Exec: Health CISOs’ Top Priority Should be Agent Identity
‘The basics that we learned about in security are 10 times more important in an agentic world,’ Anthropic’s Rob Bair tells CHAI’s AI Cybersecurity Work Group
Why Community Health Centers Can’t Afford to Wait on Value-Based Care
After years working with CHCs, John Torontow, M.D., M.Ph., sees value-based care as more than a payment strategy. He argues it is an opportunity to make the health centers’ often-invisible work measurable, recognized and financially sustainable.
The Imperative of Distinguishing Medical-Grade Devices from Wellness Tech
Why the flood of consumer wellness devices demands clear boundaries between lifestyle improvement and clinical diagnostics The post The Imperative of Distinguishing Medical-Grade Devices from Wellness Tech appeared first on MedCity News.
AI in Pharmacovigilance: Why Governance Will Define Success
As adoption accelerates, organizations must ensure that the use of AI strengthens and not weakens accountability and patient safety. The post AI in Pharmacovigilance: Why Governance Will Define Success appeared first on MedCity News.
Summa Health ‘Health System Command Center’ to Use AI to Unify Tech Stack
Ohio health system, acquired by General Catalyst, reveals list of vendor partners, including Aidoc, Clarium, Commure, Fabric, and Transparent
How Much of a Cancer Drug Is Too Much? Patients, Researchers Challenge FDA-Approved Dosages
Northwestern University economist Chuck Manski studies decision-making amid uncertainty. That prepared him better than many other cancer patients to decide whether to stay on an immunotherapy treatment that was making him very ill. For six months in 2022, Manski received monthly infusions of nivolumab to fight advanced melanoma. The drug ruined his thyroid gland, he…
Violence Against Healthcare Workers and Staffing Shortages Fuel Hospital Strikes
Nurse Crystal Dhooghe is used to dealing with blood and broken bones in the emergency room. But she didn’t expect to witness so much violence against her own colleagues. “I’ve seen nurses get shoved, pushed, scratched. The biggest one is bitten,” said Dhooghe, who works at Henry Ford Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc, Michigan. The…