The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services this week released a report on complaints and enforcement efforts concerning the Public Health Service Act, which includes the No Surprises Act.
The Medicare Advantage program recently achieved the milestone of covering more than half of all Medicare beneficiaries, but according to a report from S&P Global Ratings, this could have an adverse impact on hospital margins.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the Biden Administration to stop a new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services final rule that requires nursing home staffing standards.
Kaiser Permanente’s Dr. Daniel Yang, who is vice president of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published yesterday that he wouldn’t feel comfortable using AI to automate clinical decision making in diagnosis or treatment.
Security risk trends include the move to mobile, a password-less future and outsourcing, says Joel Burleson-Davis, SVP Worldwide Engineering Cyber at Imprivata.
Even as the hospitals and health systems continue to battle with Medicare Advantage programs over reimbursement rates, customer satisfaction with MA plans is significantly higher than with commercial member health plans, according to the J.D. Power 2024 U.S. Medicare Advantage Study. It found the most important factors driving customer satisfaction with Medicare Advantage plans are […]
Swimming robotic pill allows gastroenterologists the ability to look around the inside of body by video call, says Torrey Smith, cofounder and CEO of Endiatx.
Walgreens is partnering with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) – part of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response in the Department of Health and Human Services – to increase innovation in decentralized clinical trials as part of the Decentralized Clinical
Changes announced to ACO REACH model for 2025 and 2026 will disincentivize providers from achieving meaningful improvements across the quintuple aim, according to Gary Jacobs, executive director at VillageMD’s Center for Public Policy.
The average cost of employer-sponsored healthcare coverage in the U.S. is expected to increase 9% next year, surpassing $16,000 per employee in 2025, according to a new Aon report. This projected increase, which assumes employers do not implement employee cost-sharing increases and other cost-saving strategies, is higher than the 6.4% increase to healthcare budgets that […]