Included Health, a navigation and virtual care company, announced Tuesday that it plans to acquire Firefly Health, a primary care and health plan provider. San Francisco-based Included Health provides virtual …
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More than six in ten Americans had some sort of symptom signaling poor digestive health in just the past week, yet most still have no way to track what’s happening …
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It’s the latest industry recommendation: that health plans move routine Utilization Management (UM) in-house and leave complex, specialty care to the experts. As both a nurse and a clinical operations …
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For decades, Alzheimer’s disease has been detected far too late. By the time memory and thinking problems disrupt daily life, underlying biological changes have often been progressing quietly for years. …
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Argenx established itself in immunology with a single drug offering potential use across a range of rare inflammatory disorders. The biotech is now expanding to more prevalent conditions through a …
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Value-based care has become one of the most misunderstood terms in the healthcare industry, according to Lakshmi Halasyamani, chief clinical officer at Endeavor Health. She said hospitals tend to treat …
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Prior authorization has become one of healthcare’s most expensive administrative bottlenecks, affecting far more than physician practices. Across hospitals and health systems, it slows patient access, adds labor-intensive work, increases …
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Healh insurers are interested in assessing the potential for AI to improve everything from prior authorization to member management. But data fragmentation poses an enormous challenge to AI readiness in …
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Across the country, community and mid-size hospitals are facing a new financial reality: a shift to a riskier payer mix. Commercial coverage that once cross-subsidized care is shrinking, Medicare is …
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Crystalys Therapeutics does not yet have data from pivotal tests of its gout drug, but the company is already looking ahead to potentially bringing the drug to the market, plans …