In a bid to streamline licensure, this week the U.S.
AI platform helps do the backend work of the pharmacy as these technician roles become harder to fill, says Joy Liu, founder and CEO of Plenful.
AI can mine data to identify patterns in a patient’s history, access medical records to automate claims and lead to a self-service model, say Oron Afek, CEO of Vim and Ashok Chennuru, global chief data and insights officer, Elevance Health.
The Pay PCPs Act, an attempt to improve pay and support for primary care providers, has drawn criticism from the American Hospital Association, which penned a letter to Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Bill Cassidy this week saying the bill could lead to payment cuts.
A group of almost 90 congressional Democrats have co-signed a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services, asking the agency to shore up Affordable Care Act access for those receiving Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
Elevance Health’s profits in the second quarter were 24% higher than in Q2 2023, as the health insurer logged $2.3 billion in profit and $43.9 billion in revenue – the latter an improvement, but just 1% higher than the second quarter of last year.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services this week released the final part two guidance regarding plan outreach and education for the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan, which aims to ensure that people with Medicare prescription drug coverage, especially those most likely to benefit, are aware of the payment option.
LG Electronics went into digital health through partnerships and its own build strategies, leaning into health systems for clinical feedback, says Joe O’Brien, head of sales, digital health at LG Electronics.
The evidence gap means physicians don’t have the right evidence for best treatment decision, says Saurabh Gombar, adjunct faculty at Stanford Health Care and chief medical officer and cofounder of Atropos Health.
Healthcare chief finance officers (CFOs) have moved cost reduction, consistently among the top three priorities for the past three years, to the bottom of the list of concerns.