U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Dr. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) have introduced legislation, the Pay PCPs Act, to better support and improve pay for high-quality primary care providers by reforming how they get paid through Medicare. The lawmakers also released a Request for Information so the healthcare industry could weigh in on the best methods […]
Babyscripts, a virtual maternity care program for managing obstetrics, is collaborating with Lyft Healthcare to provide sponsored rides to and from doctor appointments for transportation-insecure maternity patients via Lyft Pass. The collaboration is supported by grant funding awarded to Babyscripts by Lyft Healthcare, and will aid maternity patients in attending care appointments, regardless of risk, […]
Jefferson and Lehigh Valley Health Network in Pennsylvania have signed a definitive agreement to combine, creating an integrated academic healthcare delivery system, alongside a national research university and an expanded not-for-profit health plan. The unified system would place it within the top 15 not-for-profit health systems in the United States, Jefferson said.
Remote monitoring, data capture and delivery of care services inside the home allows for site-agnostic care, says Dr. Maulik Majmudar, chief medical officer at Biofourmis.
Prices paid to hospitals by employers and private insurers for both inpatient and outpatient services in 2022 averaged 254% of what Medicare would have paid, with wide variation in prices among states, according to a new RAND report.
Qualified health information networks allow providers to find all of the records in every location where a patient has been, across his or her lifetime, says Dr. John Blair, CEO, MedAllies, whose company was recently named a QHIN designee.
Jim Rechtin will assume the role of president and chief executive officer of Humana effective July 1, the insurer announced this week. Rechtin joined Humana in January as part of a long-planned CEO transition. Since then, he has worked in close partnership with Humana’s current CEO, Bruce Broussard, to immerse himself in the company’s operations. […]
The disruption promised by the retailization of healthcare hasn’t materialized as planned. Walmart and Walgreens recently announced the closing of retail clinics.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ January expansion of the two-midnight rule to include Medicare Advantage plans has contributed to higher inpatient volumes and revenue growth in the first quarter of the year, according to a Strata Decision Technology report.
The frameworks came out about the same time HIMSS released its annual healthcare cybersecurity survey, which this year shows how healthcare organizations are using AI, says Lee Kim, senior principal of cybersecurity and privacy at HIMSS.