New legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives seeks to avoid a shortfall in the Medicare Hospital Insurance Fund by closing tax loopholes and redirecting tax revenue in a push to keep the fund solvent by at least another decade.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with the Department of Defense, announced it has secured 3.2 million doses of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine. The protein-based, adjuvanted vaccine will be made available for free to states, jurisdictions, federal pharmacy partners and federally qualified health centers if it receives U.S. Food and Drug Administration […]
According to Moffitt Cancer Center’s vice president of digital innovation, Santosh Mohan, oncology providers and startups can work together to improve the patient and clinician experience.
CVS Health has named Tilak Mandadi as executive vice president and to the newly created role of chief data, digital and technology Officer. The company said Mandadi’s tenure in the new roles will begin on July 25. Mandadi will be responsible for the company’s data, digital and technology strategy while overseeing growth and innovation, according […]
The federal government under the Biden Administration has made a push to ensure abortion access as part of emergency medical care, with Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra telling providers this week that pregnant women and others experiencing pregnancy loss have access to “full rights and protections” for emergency care under federal law.
Signify Health, a value-based care-focused analytics platform, will be ceasing its Episodes of Care Services (ECS) business and exiting the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Bundled Payments for Care Improvement-Advanced (BPCI-A) model, the company announced.
The federal government recovered more than $5 billion in healthcare fraud settlements and judgments in fiscal year 2021, according to the joint annual government Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Annual Report from the of the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services.
Oncology AI company Ronin vice president of data science Christine Swisher gives thoughts on the continuous monitoring of model performance, “garbage in, garbage out,” provider-facing dashboards and “AI drift.”
In a bid to make diabetes treatment more affordable, California Governor Gavin Newsom said in a recent Twitter video that the state will begin making its own low-cost insulin, using a $100 million budget to kick-start development and manufacturing of the drug.
One in five adults in the U.S. have received an unexpected medical bill this year, even after a federal ban on surprise medical billing, according to a new survey from Morning Consult.