In a recent webinar, Carta Healthcare CEO Matt Hollingsworth shared how his health tech business is using AI for data mining to mobilize healthcare data to enable organizations to transform the patient experience. The company’s goal is to reduce the burden for healthcare organizations to pull together both structured and unstructured data in a standardized format so all their data […]
Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News “Nobody’s enforcing that law.” Rapper Fat Joe, in a TV ad about hospital price transparency requirements that began running this spring Rapper Fat Joe takes on hospital industry executives in an advertisement, contending that many hospitals are disobeying a law that requires them to publicly post the prices they charge cash-paying patients and insurance companies […]
Montana’s Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that temporarily blocks further restrictions on abortion. Planned Parenthood in a statement Tuesday announced that the Montana Supreme Court blocked three separate laws that were enacted during the state’s legislative session last year from taking effect. One of the laws would have banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, while another […]
Tonight, we’ll get to see the last supermoon of 2022, called the “Sturgeon Supermoon” because it’s around this time that it’s easiest to catch sturgeon in the Great Lakes. So either grab your telescope or your fishing pole. In health news, a new monkeypox vaccination strategy will quintuple the available doses, but there are concerns about whether it can work effectively. Welcome […]
A federal judge approved Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies’ $2.67 billion antitrust settlement on Tuesday. Barring an appeal, this would mark the end of policyholders’ 10-year legal battle against 34 Blues plans. The plaintiffs alleged that the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association’s rules limiting the amount of revenue member plans may generate from non-Blues-branded businesses, and geographic limits to […]
Maybe you’re not usually one to fall prey to seasonal viruses. You do what you can to stay healthy—work out regularly, try and eat a balanced diet, and limit the amount of time spent around others who are sick. You wash your hands regularly at home, at work and in public, and clean countertops and other surfaces with a bleach […]
There’s a severe evidence gap in healthcare treatment guidelines. Clinical trials shape most care guidelines and payer decisions, yet they exclude about 70% of the U.S. population, according to Brigham Hyde, co-founder and CEO of Atropos Health. He pointed out that this dynamic is even more pronounced for patients with chronic comorbidities or those who belong to rare groups, such […]
Health insurance companies are increasingly pressing doctors for more information when they perform unscheduled, minor procedures on patients the same day as visits for other reasons, such as to draw blood, perform a skin biopsy or conduct an electrocardiogram. Insurers are zeroing in on providers evaluation and management claims that include modifier 25. Providers use evaluation and management codes on claims for assessing or […]
It seems like everything just gets more and more expensive. But are prices for medical care declining? Cutler et al. (1998) found in seminal paper “Are medical prices declining? Evidence for heart attack treatments” that while unadjusted prices of medical care were in fact rising, quality-adjusted health care costs actually were falling. In my own research, Lakdawalla et al. (2015), […]
More often than ever, professionals from other sectors are changing course, entering the home care industry and jump starting their careers by becoming franchisees. This new class of home care franchise owners brings with them backgrounds in law, hospitality, public relations and other areas. Since moving into the home care sector, many have been able to use their previous experience […]