Dr. Jared Saul, Amazon Web Services chief medical officer, talks about the benefits of artificial intelligence and machine learning, but also AWS’ concerns about their use in healthcare.
Medicare Advantage payments are expected to increase on average by 3.7%, or over $16 billion, from 2024 to 2025, as proposed, from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
HCA Healthcare plans on making $5 billion in capital investments this year, with a large concentration in outpatient facilities.
Health company Cigna has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Medicare Advantage, Supplemental Benefits, Medicare Part D and CareAllies businesses to Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) for about $3.7 billion.
Ten months after states began the redetermination process, an estimated 16 million beneficiaries have lost Medicaid coverage, according to KFF analysis.
The Food and Drug Administration has set March 8 as the end of its emergency use authorization (EUA) for Paxlovid for adult patients, the agency has said this week. The medication is given to those considered high risk for progression to severe COVID-19, including hospitalization or death.
Bicycle Health helps continue access to medications such as buprenorphine for opioid use disorder to individuals living in the Federal Bureau of Prison’s Residential Reentry Centers, says Ankit Gupta, founder and CEO of Bicycle Health.
Humana’s CenterWell Senior Primary Care will continue expanding this year, with plans to open centers in three new locations: Asheville, North Carolina, and Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana. It will also add new centers in the existing markets of Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; Indianapolis, Indiana; Jackson, Mississippi; Louisville, Kentucky; Orlando, Florida; and Richmond […]
The Federal Trade Commission has sued to block Novant Health $320 million acquisition of two North Carolina hospitals from Community Health Systems, saying the proposal would likely increase annual healthcare costs by several million dollars.
Physicians use a seven-day readmissions model in which they take AI risk assessment into account when discharging patients, says Luis Ahumada, director of health data science and analytics at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital.