The American Medical Association is praising a bipartisan gun proposal that would give grants to states for red flag laws, provide spending for mental health treatment and school security and give extra scrutiny for gun buyers under the age of 21, according to Politico
Technology Solutions Consulting’s CEO and president Alfred Hamilton discusses the range of data available to consumers that helps them make decisions health and why the pandemic has changed the industry.
Two hospitals in Georgia, both part of the Northside health system, have become the first facilities to be fined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for noncompliance with federal price transparency rules that went into effect last January. The two hospitals, Northside Hospital Atlanta and Northside Hospital Cherokee, were fined a combined $1.1 […]
Private practices can use digital transformation to ensure healthcare data quality and also compete with retail clinics, according to Oleg Bess, MD, an OB-GYN at Women Center L.A.
Heart failure patients who are unvaccinated against COVID-19 are three times more likely to die if infected with the virus compared to fully boosted heart failure patients, according to new research out of Mount Sinai Heart.
The American Hospital Association has urged the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to extend enforcement discretion for the No Surprises Act regulatory requirement that healthcare providers exchange certain information to create a good faith estimate for uninsured and self-pay patients – until the agency identifies, and providers can implement, a standard, automated way to […]
The United Health Foundation, the philanthropic arm of UnitedHealth Group, is making a $100 million commitment over 10 years to advance health equity, in what it framed as a continuation of its efforts to eliminate health disparities. The new commitment was announced today at the Social Innovation Summit in Washington, D.C., by Patricia L. Lewis, […]
A number of pharmaceutical groups have come out in favor of the Federal Trade Commission’s decision to launch an inquiry into the business practices of the nation’s six largest pharmacy benefit managers, in order to scrutinize their impact on the access and affordability of prescription drugs.
In the next three years the country plans to be “best in the world” at using IT to boost health outcomes, according to Maria Hassel of the Swedish eHealth.
The Federal Trade Commission is requiring the six largest pharmacy benefit managers to provide information and records regarding their business practices. The agency is launching an inquiry into what it called the prescription drug middleman industry to scrutinize the impa