Oncology remains one of the most challenging areas for payers since it is literally in the eye of a perfect storm of expensive medications, high-cost specialized therapies, changing reimbursement rules …
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One of the standard treatments for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is an old drug that offers limited efficacy and a range of side effects. Celea Therapeutics aims to offer advantages over …
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Medicaid programs are in a period of heightened scrutiny, as states confront growing complexity in how these programs are administered and sustained. A recent Kaiser Family Foundation analysis highlights how …
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Whenever people think of at-home care, generally it’s tied to remote monitoring or at-home diagnostics or temporary hospital-at-home programs. But at-home care now includes palliative care. In this month’s pivot …
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The case for AI-powered documentation tools has moved from theory to data. By mid-2025, 62.6 percent of U.S. hospitals running Epic had deployed some form of ambient AI scribing, according …
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Healthcare workforce strategy has long centered on reducing, responding to and recovering from turnover. That’s certainly true for organizations that employ allied health professionals, where turnover costs amount to $14,200 …
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Almost every healthcare AI pilot I have seen clear its success criteria has gone on to struggle in production, sometimes within months of going live, and almost always for reasons …
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If you have interacted in the past few years with a medical chatbot, you probably walked away feeling like it was helpful for simple tasks and frustrating for anything even …
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The recent attention surrounding hantavirus has understandably unsettled people. A virus associated with rodents, severe respiratory illness, and mortality rates that can exceed 35% is going to generate concern whenever …
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Why the Office of Personnel Management Needs Access to Government Employee Health Plan Claims Data
The Office of Personnel Management recently made headlines by requesting health claims data for workers covered under the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program. The government needs this itemized data to ensure …