CHAI has formed five working groups for best practices to build out an assurance standards guide. Later this fall it will announce a model card to align health systems, payers and IT companies, says Dr. Brian Anderson, cofounder and CEO.
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions grilled Novo Nordisk’s CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen on the company’s high price for its weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy in the United States compared to other countries. Jørgensen never directly answered the question posed by Senate HELP Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) several times: Why […]
As the U.S. population ages at an unprecedented rate, the demand for age-friendly care is skyrocketing, revealing significant gaps in the nation’s healthcare infrastructure. A recent report from the John A. Hartford Foundation emphasizes the urgent need for healthcare systems to adapt to the complex needs of older adults.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a final rule on Significant, Anomalous and Highly Suspect (SAHS) billing activity in the Medicare Shared Savings Program. The final rule concerns financial calculations for 2023 urinary catheter billings and is part of a larger strategy to address billing activity within Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) reconciliation, […]
The question becomes not whether AI can predict disease, but what physicians should tell patients, ethically, such as their chances of getting cancer, says Dr. Lukasz Kowalczyk, a physician at Colorado-based Peak Gastroenterology Associates.
Cardinal Health, which manufactures and distributes medical and laboratory products, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Integrated Oncology Network, a physician-led independent community oncology network, for more than $1.1 billion in cash. ION includes more than 50 practice sites in 10 states representing more than 100 providers. Its continuum of care includes medical […]
Advocate Health, the nation’s third-largest non-profit health system, will begin canceling all judgment liens previously placed on homes and real estate as part of its efforts to collect unpaid medical bills, and will also forgive the outstanding debts associated with those liens, the health system said this week.
From an enterprise level there is no shortage of AI opportunities around the economic value of the application, says Dr. Peter Bonis, chief medical officer at Wolters Kluwer Health.
More than 25 million people were disenrolled from Medicaid during the unwinding process, and over 56 million had their coverage renewed.
Tampa General Hospital and Boston-based Mass General Brigham have said they’re “deepening” their affiliation with the development of new programs and services, including a bone marrow transplant program and CAR-T therapy program, at TGH.