Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Some large hospitals are still not posting their complete price lists as required by federal transparency rules, a new analysis by PatientRightsAdvocate.org found. A comparison of price data for seven hospitals in Florida and Texas, owned by two major health systems, […]
How EmpiRx’s value-based model led to less drug spending on mental health, decreased opioid use – MedCity News
Touted as the only value-based pharmacy benefit manager, EmpiRx Health showed in data it released Thursday that while its company saw an increase in pharmacy claims for behavioral health treatments, costs decreased. It also saw a decrease in opioid claims and an increase in people with opioid use disorder in treatment, said CEO Karthik Ganesh. Montvale, New Jersey-based EmpiRx found […]
Spanning The Divide – HCD Magazine
There’s a word we’re hearing more lately: Phygital. A linguistic mashup of the words “physical” and “digital,” it’s used to describe experiences that blend the physical environment with the digital one. This trend is happening in multiple industries to varying degrees of success. Think Amazon Go stores where you shop in a physical space but a digital interface automatically tracks […]
Preventing unlicensed individuals and subsequent fraudulent claims submission
On June 7, 2022, Theresa Pickering of Norcross, Georgia, was indicted by a federal grand jury on federal charges of health care fraud, aggravated identity theft and distribution of controlled substances. The U.S. District Attorney alleges that Pickering was hired in 2019 as a licensed physician’s assistant at a family practice in Norcross, Georgia but had not been a licensed […]
Vast majority of red-state seniors have been vaccinated, despite GOP vaccine resistance
When the COVID-19 vaccine rolled out, Clyde Muchmore was ready to drive across Oklahoma to get it. “At the very, very first, all we knew was that a whole lot of people were dying,” recalled Muchmore, 80, of Oklahoma City. He scheduled a vaccine, he said, “on absolutely the first day I could.” Nearly half of Oklahoma’s overall population has […]
Reporter Follows Up on ‘Cancer Moonshot’ Progress and the Bias in Digital Health Records
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Columbia U. to pay $165M to sexual abuse, misconduct victims of former gynecologist
Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) announced on Friday that it would pay $165 million to patients who were sexually abused by a former gynecologist employed by the hospital. The medical center reached an agreement with 147 former patients of ex-Dr. Robert Hadden in partnership with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. An independent special master, agreed upon by both parties, will distribute the […]
I Was Allergic to Cats. Until Suddenly, I Wasn’t.
Of all the nicknames I have for my cat Calvin—Fluffernutter, Chonk-a-Donk, Fuzzy Lumpkin, Jerky McJerkface—Bumpus Maximus may be the most apt. Every night, when I crawl into bed, Calvin hops onto my pillow, purrs, and bonks his head affectionately against mine. It’s adorable, and a little bit gross. Tiny tufts of fur jet into my nose; flecks of spittle smear […]
Tackling the monkeypox outbreak: The applied behavioral science lessons the Biden administration should learn – MedCity News
The U.S. has once again found itself in the thick of another public health crisis with the Biden administration officially declaring the monkeypox epidemic as a public health emergency. Still reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic, the monkeypox outbreak could virtually not have come at a worse possible time for Public Health agencies and healthcare organizations which are just now regaining […]