Tom O’Neil, managing director of Berkeley Research Group, says boards need to ask the right questions to get AI right and consider factors like efficacy and transparency.  

Thirty-nine healthcare executives, public health and policy leaders, some with former ties to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the CMS Innovation Center and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, have submitted a joint letter to the Department of Health and Human Services strongly supporting proposed changes to Medicare Advantage payments.

Nine hospital groups have written to Congressional leadership urging lawmakers to avoid the roughly $8 billion in cuts to Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments, which could start as soon as October 1.