In a move designed to strengthen healthcare access and infrastructure in underserved areas, the Department of Health and Human Services has announced a $75 million investment in rural healthcare. This initiative aims to expand healthcare services and improve the quality of care for Americans living in rural communities.
There are significant deficiencies in the Medicaid program’s ability to detect and prevent fraud, waste and abuse, according to a new report from the Office of Inspector General (OIG), which outlines key challenges states face in maintaining program integrity.
Christopher Ahn, biomedical engineer supervisor at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs in Dayton, Ohio, developed a chatbot called the Healthcare Technology Large language Model that allows clinicians to query the chatbot rather than carrying around service manuals or scrolling through a pdf, Ahn says.
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.