Weight Watchers, which now goes by the designation “WW,” is entering into the telehealth prescription drug space, having entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sequence for $132 million.  The subscription telehealth platform offers access to healthcare providers specializing in chronic weight management to connect patients with doctors who can prescribe weight-loss drugs.

Due to rising medical supply costs as well as the cost of drugs and labor, total expenses for Connecticut hospitals in 2022 were $3.5 billion higher than they were before the pandemic – a more dire predicament than that seen by hospitals nationwide, according to new findings from the Connecticut Hospital Association.

Patient and consumer advocacy organizations, including the Center for American Progress and the Legal Council for Health Justice, have sent letters to the IRS and Consumer Protection Bureau pushing the Biden administration to do more to protect Americans from medical bills and debt collectors.

In the wake of a “severe illness season,” Highmark Health is teaming with Kinsa to deploy its real-time illness insights and season forecast to predict healthcare utilization, recognize staffing needs and plan emergency department and ICU bed capacity when infectious diseases like COVID-19 and infl

Health systems are required to retain clinical, HR and financial data, which all have differing retention lengths, says Tower Health VP and Chief Applications Officer Sidney Dixon during a preview of his HIMSS23 session.  

Tom O’Neil, managing director of Berkeley Research Group, says boards need to ask the right questions to get AI right and consider factors like efficacy and transparency.  

Thirty-nine healthcare executives, public health and policy leaders, some with former ties to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the CMS Innovation Center and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, have submitted a joint letter to the Department of Health and Human Services strongly supporting proposed changes to Medicare Advantage payments.

Nine hospital groups have written to Congressional leadership urging lawmakers to avoid the roughly $8 billion in cuts to Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments, which could start as soon as October 1.