When the transplant team at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas gets the call about a possible donor heart, many processes and people start moving—quickly. And if multiple calls happen back-to-back, that’s where the team really springs into action. The heart transplant team has an unwavering focus on giving hope to people living with heart failure. Heart failure—where the heart […]
Ransomware is one of the most dangerous cyberthreats operating today. Many organizations are specifically targeted, either because criminals assume they can ask for a lot of money or because of a higher possibility for payment. Among those targeted groups, healthcare organizations are near the top of the list. Companies such as Rubrik are pioneering defenses against ransomware. A combination of […]
This month, the Colorado Visiting Nurse Association (Colorado VNA) received a $2.3 million grant from the state to expand its CAPABLE program and to provide care for more Medicaid members. CAPABLE is an interdisciplinary program from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing that combines nursing care, occupational therapy and handyman services. It stands for “Community Aging in Place — Advancing […]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has launched an investigation into how state abortion bans have affected women’s access to health care for pregnancies, reproductive and non-reproductive care. In her announcement, Warren said her investigation was spurred by reports of “shocking stories from women in states that have enacted radical abortion bans and criminalized health care.” Warren, who sits on the Senate […]
Last week, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra declared a public health emergency for the nation’s monkeypox outbreak. Many healthcare professionals felt this as an unwelcome deja vu. “I’ll be honest, I am concerned,” Soumi Saha, senior vice president of government affairs at Premier, said in an interview. “Knowing what we knew about monkeypox and having the […]
Scan Health Plan said it will begin selling Medicare Advantage plans in the state of Texas in 2023, expanding the senior insurer’s coverage to four states. The nonprofit payer also plans to expand its existing footprint in Nevada by moving into Nye County, a region northwest of Las Vegas. “The expansions would bring Scan’s total reach to nearly seven million […]
Executive Summary State Medicaid websites are a key source of information and an avenue for enrollment in or renewal of coverage for many applicants and existing enrollees. Medicaid households include a disproportionate share of nonelderly adults with limited English proficiency (LEP), and three in ten nonelderly Medicaid adults report having a disability. When the continuous enrollment requirement related to the […]
Once again, the United States is messing up its approach to vaccines. Three months into its monkeypox outbreak, just 620,000 doses of the two-injection Jynneos shot—the nation’s current best immune defense against the virus—have been shipped to states, not nearly enough to immunize the 1.6 million to 1.7 million Americans that the CDC considers at highest risk. The next deliveries […]
The latest–and perhaps final–blow to the once-promising Alzheimer’s Disease medication Aduhelm came when its maker, Biogen, said it will stop collecting data on patients who are using it. Biogen said this was a result of Medicare and Medicaid restricting coverage so severely that there would not be a substantial number of patients to follow. Even after Biogen cut its original […]
Short-term treatment and stabilization program Bronx Support and Connection Center (SCC) has opened in New York. The facility, a project of The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (New York) and the Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health (New York), provides clinical and social services, such access to food, showers, laundry, and limited overnight stays. Samaritan Daytop […]