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| 30.05.2025 | Guest opinion: Judy Amabile: Medicaid cuts will hurt you too | Colorado communities are already reeling from the impacts of inadequate treatment for psychosis and substance disorders. Our community mental health centers serve almost 100% Medicaid patients. These facilities could end up shutting down if... |
| 23.05.2025 | The Shadowy Underbelly of Medicare Advantage and Cargo Theft: A Tale of Greed and Deception | In the world of healthcare and commerce, shadows lurk where greed thrives. Two recent cases highlight this dark side: the alleged corruption in Medicare Advantage plans and the brazen theft of Amazon cargo by organized crime. Both stories r... |
| 23.05.2025 | House Republican tax bill skipped ACA credits — marketplace health insurance will get pricier without them | Premium tax credits under the enhanced Affordable Care Act were not included in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that House Republicans passed on Thursday.
Without action from Congress, the subsidies are on track to expire by the end of 202... |
| 22.05.2025 | How UnitedHealthcare became the face of America’s health insurance frustrations | UnitedHealthcare has become the poster child for problems with the U.S. insurance industry and the nation’s sprawling health-care system.
Some health insurance and policy experts say it’s no surprise that the company often ends up in the cr... |
| 22.05.2025 | Trump’s DOJ accuses Medicare Advantage insurers of paying ‘kickbacks’ for primo customers | The plans have also drawn attention for requiring patients to get prior authorization, a process that involves gaining approval for higher-cost care, such as elective surgeries, nursing home stays, or chemotherapy, something rarely required... |
| 13.05.2025 | Trump’s Drug Price Plan: A Bold Move or a Pipe Dream? | In a bold stroke, President Donald Trump has revived a controversial policy aimed at slashing U.S. drug prices. The plan, known as the “most favored nation” policy, seeks to tie American drug prices to those in other developed countries, wh... |
| 12.05.2025 | Trump’s plan to slash drug prices may struggle to get off the ground – here’s what to know | President Donald Trump wants to lower U.S. drug costs by linking prices to those paid in other developed countries – a move that experts say could face a challenging path to becoming a reality.
Trump signed a sweeping executive order direct... |
| 12.05.2025 | Trump signs order aiming to cut some U.S. drug prices to match lower ones abroad | President Donald Trump revived a controversial policy that aims to slash drug costs by tying the prices of some medicine in the U.S. to the significantly lower ones abroad.
Trump signed an executive order including several different actions... |
| 23.04.2025 | States that enshrined Medicaid expansion in their constitutions could be in a bind | But because Missouri, Oklahoma and South Dakota have put Medicaid expansion in their constitutions, they can’t easily take those steps.
“Legislators cannot change that law without going back to voters for a whole other campaign to change th... |
| 19.04.2025 | Deportation fears add to mental health problems confronting resort town workers | García-Ramírez’s two-year humanitarian parole expired in February, just a few weeks after President Donald Trump issued an executive order to end the program that had permitted temporary legal residency in the U.S. for hundreds of thousands... |
| 22.03.2025 | Market Resilience Amidst Tariff Turmoil: A Fragile Recovery | The stock market is a fickle beast, often swayed by the winds of policy and sentiment. As the S&P 500 eked out a gain last Friday, it marked a glimmer of hope after four weeks of relentless declines. The index climbed a mere 0.08%, clos... |
| 21.03.2025 | Health | Health insurers made $41B the year COVID-19 landed. Why are they raising rates now? | Yet the first year of the pandemic was historic not only for COVID-19, but for a surprising side effect — the health system known for inexorable growth actually provided less care in most categories. Elective procedures were put on hold due... |
| 14.03.2025 | Editorials | Editorial: What have we learned in 5 years with COVID? | Later, Trump fired the government’s entire pandemic response chain of command, leaving confusion as to how the nation would respond to an outbreak like the one it soon faced.
All of that is particularly harrowing as a new Trump administrati... |
| 05.03.2025 | Congress’ proposed cuts may jeopardize Medicaid and negatively impact the economy, report finds | Federal spending cuts to Medicaid would impact more than 80 million people who rely on the program.
It may also have negative effects on the economy, new research finds.
House Republicans have called for about $880 billion in spending cuts ... |
| 24.02.2025 | Retirees can shop for new health plans during Medicare Advantage open enrollment. Here are some key factors to consider | Some Medicare beneficiaries have until March 31 to make coverage changes.
Here’s what experts say are key factors to consider when comparing your options.
Although a broader window for Medicare enrollment has closed, some retirees have anot... |
| 07.02.2025 | The Rise of GymShark: A Blueprint for Lasting Success in the Fitness Industry | In the bustling world of fitness apparel, GymShark stands tall, a beacon of innovation and resilience. Founded by Ben Francis in 2012, this brand has transformed from a small startup into a global powerhouse. The journey is a testament to t... |
| 06.02.2025 | Reversing Healthcare’s Financial Crisis: A Look into Patient Access Solutions | Meredith Kirchner, COO and Client Success Leader, Curae
The healthcare industry is caught in the crosshairs of historical inflation, driving up the costs of medical equipment, essential medications and treatments, and out-of-pocket costs. T... |
| 09.12.2024 | From Spit on His Shoes to SpaceX — 3 Lessons to Learn from Elon Musk's Relentless Pursuit of the Impossible Visionaries never look over their shoulder at what others are doing. | In 2001, Elon Musk wanted to spend some of the fortune he amassed from selling Zip2 and X.Com (later PayPal) to start a farming project on Mars. What did he know about sending payloads into space? Not much. Never afraid to lean on others' e... |
| 03.12.2024 | Health | What’s new for Medicare in 2025? | Part D out-of-pocket drug costs are capped
In 2025, Medicare Part D out-of-pocket costs for covered prescription drugs will be limited to $2,000. While this feels like a win for the consumer, there may be secondary effects. Because drug pla... |
| 25.09.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Lisa Doggett: We can’t fix health care if we’re not talking about it | But obtaining preventive care is only one of the challenges facing those without coverage. For this population, getting appointments with specialists, diagnostic testing and treatments may be even more difficult.
Physician Ricardo Nuila, an... |
| 10.09.2024 | VCs Pour More Money Into Self-Pay Healthcare — Consumers Aren’t Celebrating | 11 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
American consumers are used to products and services getting better. From coffee to car mileage to smartphones, it’s common for the things we consume to get more appealing, efficient and easy to use... |
| 19.08.2024 | Venture capital firms making bets on maternal health | Society & EquityEmployee Benefits & Executive Compensation
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| 07.08.2024 | Politics | Harris’ California health care battles signal fights ahead for hospitals if she wins | For decades, the health industry has undergone consolidation despite government efforts to maintain competition. When health systems expand, adding hospitals and doctor practices to their portfolios, they often gain a large enough share of ... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Intersection of Politics and Public Health: A Delicate Balance**
** | ** In the world of public health, the surgeon general's role is akin to a ship's captain navigating treacherous waters. The captain must steer the ship through storms while keeping the crew and passengers safe. However, when politics enters... |
| 19.07.2024 | National Politics | As public health becomes political, state surgeons general play delicate role | Elsewhere, Florida’s surgeon general has made headlines by helping Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis defy the medical consensus on COVID-19 vaccines, even appearing with him on the presidential campaign trail.
That model has raised questions abo... |
| 18.07.2024 | CEDA Announces $57 Million SSBCI 2.0 Funding Approval for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) | The Commonwealth Economic Development Authority (CEDA) is pleased to announce the approval of up to $57 million from the U.S. Treasury under the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) 2.0 for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana... |
| 11.07.2024 | Health | Lack of affordability tops older Americans’ list of health care worries | In fact, five of the top 10 issues identified as very concerning were cost-related. Beyond the top three, people cited the cost of health insurance and Medicare (52%), and the cost of dental care (45%). Financial scams and fraud came in fou... |
| 08.07.2024 | Health | Medicaid now covers doulas for pregnant and postpartum Coloradans | The full doula package includes up to 180 minutes each of prenatal and postpartum care, as well as birth support, Snyder said. The doula and client can decide how to divide up the appointments. For example, some may want three hour-long vis... |
| 06.07.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Céline Gounder and Craig Spencer: The decline in American life expectancy harms more than our health | In 1842, Edwin Chadwick argued in his landmark “Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain” that public health investments are crucial not only from a moral perspective, but also for economic productivity... |
| 28.06.2024 | National Politics | 1st Biden-Trump debate of 2024: What they got wrong, and right | CNN hosted the debate, which had no audience, at its Atlanta headquarters. CNN anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash moderated. The debate format allowed CNN to mute candidates’ microphones when it wasn’t their turn to speak.
Our PolitiFact par... |
| 14.06.2024 | Proposed Federal Rule Would Remove Medical Debt From Credit Reports | Arkansans may soon have medical debt information eliminated from their credit reports under a proposed rule by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued Tuesday, June 11.
The CFPB’s action follows a 2022 report which found that... |
| 04.06.2024 | U.S. maternal mortality rate far exceeds other high-income nations. Here's what's different. | While U.S. pregnancy-related deaths have fallen back to pre-pandemic levels, the country's maternal mortality rate is still a national crisis — far exceeding other high-income nations, a new report shows.
Approximately 22 women died from ch... |
| 31.05.2024 | Talkspace and Ovia Health partner to launch the Women’s Health Coalition for Digital Solutions | Initial Coalition members include Conceive, Evernow, FitOn, Nurx, Cove, and Nutrium,
In April, telemedicine-based therapy provider Talkspace unveiled a partnership with specialty telemedicine company Thirty Madison, which operates Nurx, a p... |
| 14.05.2024 | Health costs threaten to overshadow Biden's historic coverage gains | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
President Biden has come closer than any of his Democratic predecessors to reaching the party's long-standing goal of universal health coverage, but unaffordable care costs may overshadow the achievem... |
| 22.04.2024 | Black Floridians more likely to die from preventable illness, report finds | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Black Floridians are more likely to die early from preventable illnesses than their white counterparts, a new Commonwealth Fund report finds.
Why it matters: Health equity doesn't exist anywhere in th... |
| 18.04.2024 | Racial health disparities exist in every state, new report says | Data: The Commonwealth Fund via Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Chart: Axios Visuals
Even states that made progress narrowing racial and ethnic health disparities have considerable gaps on access, outcomes and quality of care, a... |
| 17.04.2024 | Taking Action: Become a Health Equity Leader | In a 1955 speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously declared that of all forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most “shocking and inhumane.” Yet racial and ethnic health inequities remain pervasive across all state health system... |
| 12.04.2024 | Health | More patients are losing their doctors — and trust in the primary care system | Lynn Arditi, The Public’s Radio | (TNS) KFF Health News
First, her favorite doctor in Providence, Rhode Island, retired. Then her other doctor at a health center a few miles away left the practice. Now, Piedad Fred has developed a new chron... |
| 16.02.2024 | Health care workers say patient discrimination is a big problem | Data: The Commonwealth Fund/The African American Research Collaborative; Chart: Axios Visuals
More than half of health care workers say racial discrimination against patients is a major problem or crisis, while nearly half report seeing it ... |
| 13.02.2024 | Health | Is housing health care? State Medicaid programs increasingly say ‘yes’ | Angela Hart | (TNS) KFF Health News
States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public health insurance money to provide housing for the poorest and sick... |
| 02.02.2024 | Texas Medical Board under pressure to define emergency exception to abortion ban | Amid ongoing uncertainty about when abortions are permissible in Texas, the state’s medical board is under growing pressure to issue guidance on what type of emergency qualifies for an exemption from the state’s abortion ban.
Two high-profi... |
| 01.02.2024 | 2024 CCNow Awards Are Now Open | Sign up to receive the Climate Beat weekly newsletter in your inbox.
We’re proud to announce that the 2024 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards are now open for submissions. Now in its fourth year, the CCNow Awards program honors excellen... |
| 31.01.2024 | Most Redesign Health CEOs are white men | For a health care startup builder that claims it "nurtures diverse ideas," Redesign Health has enlisted a large number of white male CEOs.
Why it matters: Redesign's stated goals include "bringing together diverse experiences... |
| 29.01.2024 | Health | Women and minorities bear the brunt of medical misdiagnosis | Liz Szabo | (TNS) KFF Health News
Charity Watkins sensed something was deeply wrong when she experienced exhaustion after her daughter was born.
At times, Watkins, then 30, had to stop on the stairway to catch her breath. Her obstetrician s... |
| 29.01.2024 | Which country has the best health care? That’s the wrong question | I’ve spent my career studying how different health care systems work. People love to ask me which country has the best care — and are often disappointed when I don’t have an easy answer for them.
Every health care model involves people doin... |
| 26.01.2024 | CMS Announces New Behavioral Health Model | States will soon be able to apply to participate in a new initiative intended to bridge the care gap between physical health needs and behavioral health needs. On Jan. 18, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the l... |
| 24.01.2024 | Health care providers want hospitals to fight climate change | Data: The Commonwealth Fund; Chart: Axios Visuals
Nearly 80% of health care providers say it's important for their hospital to minimize its environmental impact, according to a large new Commonwealth Fund survey of clinicians.
Why it matter... |
| 23.01.2024 | Abortion funds run short of money as demand soars and donations fall | The head of the Abortion Fund of Ohio had a sinking feeling as she looked at its end-of-year finances last month. The fund had paid out $1.5 million in 2023 to help close to 4,400 patients get abortions — up from 1,175 the year before — and... |
| 23.01.2024 | Health | ‘Shell game’: When private equity comes to town, hospitals can see cutbacks, closures | Anna Claire Vollers | (TNS) Stateline.org
Peggy Malone walks the quiet halls of Crozer-Chester Medical Center, the Pennsylvania hospital where she’s worked as a registered nurse for the past 35 years, with the feeling she’s drifting through... |
| 19.01.2024 | CMS Announces Model to Advance Integration in Behavioral Health | New model seeks to improve quality of care, access, and outcomes for people with mental health conditions and substance use disorders in Medicaid and Medicare
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for ... |
| 15.01.2024 | Universities Teaching Behavioral Healthcare Use SIMmersion® Virtual Role-Plays to Practice Clinical Sessions | Figure 1. Using a SIMmersion product in the classroom
Figure 2. CBT role-players
Figure 3. Student practicing gender affirmative therapy
Role-player training systems include suicide intervention, gender affirmative therapy, cognitive behavi... |
| 10.01.2024 | Advocates expect Supreme Court Idaho abortion decision to fuel efforts to further restrict access | The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to consider the legality of Idaho’s abortion law — and to reinstate its highly restrictive ban in the meantime — is expected to galvanize a push for similar measures in other states, even before the court i... |
| 21.12.2023 | Why We Cannot Wait Any Longer: The Urgent Case for AI in Healthcare | Charles Aunger, Managing Director, Technology | Health2047
In Handel Jones’ literary alarm, “When AI Rules the World,” we are drawn to envision an age where AI doesn’t merely complement but dominates every strand of our societal fabric. One... |
| 15.12.2023 | Kate Cox is one of hundreds in Texas denied abortions despite serious health risks, data show | A Texas woman’s unsuccessful legal fight for an abortion on medical emergency grounds drew nationwide headlines in recent days, but her plight is hardly a rare occurrence amid vague and highly restrictive state laws in the post-Roe era. Kat... |
| 13.12.2023 | Challenging the ‘Growth By Any Means’ Approach in Hospital Marketing | Today, in healthcare, several things are true. First, the U.S. continues to outspend other countries and experience poor health outcomes. This is demonstrated by a report from The Commonwealth Fund which found the U.S. health system has the... |
| 09.12.2023 | Health | $200,000-a-year cystic fibrosis medication deemed “affordable” by Colorado review board because of coupons | Colorado’s new prescription drug review board decided in a first-in-the-nation vote that a medication costing more than $200,000 a year doesn’t qualify as “unaffordable,” based on the drug’s benefits to patients and the availability of coup... |
| 07.12.2023 | Mexico’s activist ‘companion networks’ quietly provide abortion pills and support to U.S. women | TIJUANA, Mexico — Just over a decade ago, when Crystal Pérez Lira needed an abortion, she had to leave Mexico. The procedure was illegal in her home state of Baja California and so deeply stigmatized that even Pérez Lira supported the proce... |
| 07.12.2023 | Proposal to protect abortion patients’ records faces pushback from Epic, UnitedHealth | At a time when abortion access can vary widely across the U.S., many reproductive health advocates are concerned about the impact of data sharing systems that automatically transmit patients’ electronic health records across institutions an... |
| 06.12.2023 | Most drugmakers have so far ignored looming FTC deadline to withdraw or amend wayward patents | With 10 days to go, only one company has responded to a demand by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for several brand-name drugmakers to delist dozens of patents that were improperly or inaccurately listed in a government registry, accordin... |
| 05.12.2023 | People are moving to Canada dreaming of a utopia with free healthcare and more tolerance. But the reality is Canada has its own set of problems. | Nearly 79,000 Americans moved to Canada from 2015 to 2023. Dave Chan
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Some Americans move to Canada in search of less polarized politics and less gun violence.
People who moved said they also face long waiting lists for healthcare... |
| 30.11.2023 | Why a giant health insurer merger is probably destined to fail | Cigna CEO David Cordani Brendan McDermid/Reuters
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The giant health insurers Cigna and Humana are reportedly considering a merger.
While they offer different kinds of health insurance, the deal is likely to face antitrust scrutiny.... |
| 30.11.2023 | Editorials | Editorial: Buyer beware on ‘health care sharing ministries’ | Open enrollment is the window of time at the year’s end when consumers make a critical health care decision — which health insurance plan to buy for the coming year to cover themselves and their families.
Those with coverage through a job t... |
| 22.11.2023 | Opinion Columnists | Opinion: Robert Graham: The biggest threat to Americans’ health is food. It’s also the cure. | By Robert Graham
Over the last 50 years, food has become more accessible than ever. Yet, Americans are experiencing the worst health outcomes of any high-income nation.
The pervasiveness of food deserts, the prevalence of junk food, and a l... |
| 20.11.2023 | Health | What long-term care looks like around the world | Jordan Rau, KFF Health News | KFF Health News (TNS)
Around the world, wealthy countries are struggling to afford long-term care for rapidly aging populations. Most spend more than the United States through government funding or insurance th... |
| 10.11.2023 | "Today I am going blind": Many Americans say health insurance doesn't keep them healthy | Edna Garcia thinks she has paid her dues. For 34 years, she worked as a public high school teacher in Bridgeport, Connecticut, while also serving as a local lawmaker for eight years. In her retirement, she volunteers at her church, where sh... |
| 09.11.2023 | Cancun abortion clinic aims to serve Americans from restrictive states | MEXICO CITY — More than 5.6 million U.S. tourists head to Cancun every year, drawn to the Mexican port’s white sand beaches, all-inclusive resorts, and raucous nightlife. Soon there’s likely to be another reason to visit: MSI Reproductive C... |
| 31.10.2023 | Yuzu wants to make health plans cheaper by letting insurers mix and match benefits | In the U.S., figuring out ways to pay for health insurance is a perennial problem — not just for individuals, but for the businesses employing them. Companies pay upwards of $22,000 per employee for family coverage, according to health poli... |
| 26.10.2023 | Working-age Americans are struggling to pay for health care, even those with insurance, report finds | Out of pocket premiums go up as health insurance open enrollment begins
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Paying for health care is a struggle even for many Americans with health insurance, who sa... |
| 23.10.2023 | What Role Should Employers Play In Promoting Healthcare Affordability? | Dr. Ari Hoffman serves as Collective Health's Chief Clinical Officer and VP of Population Health. |
| 19.10.2023 | Inside Memorial Hermann’s New Menopause Care Partnership with Midi Health | Even though more than a million women across the U.S. undergo menopause each year, most doctors weren’t trained on how to address questions related to this natural transition in life or treat complications arising from it.
In an effort to g... |
| 02.10.2023 | Transparency Is The Cure For What Ails American Health Care | "Most patients have no incentive to shop around for care because they're not paying for it anyway; ... [+] their insurers are. So hospitals can get away with charging just about whatever they want," writes Pipes.getty |
| 18.09.2023 | MedStar initative launches AI solution for maternal health | The project comes from D.C. Safe Babies Safe Moms and the Clinton Global Initiative
The US has a maternal health problem: the mortality rate in the U.S. is 24 deaths per 100,000 live births, more than three times the rate in most other high... |
| 11.09.2023 | Doctors in the U.S. can learn a lot about advocacy and activism from their Israeli counterparts | Israeli doctors are bracing for a fight. On Sept. 12, the Israeli Supreme Court is set to hear challenges to a core component of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul — and he has refused to commit to abide by the ruling. Thousands o... |
| 05.09.2023 | 5 Foundational Capabilities Needed for Implementing a Value-Based Care Program | Ready or not, value-based care (VBC) is here.
For providers and medical practices, the stakes are high. Despite spending more money per person on healthcare than any country in the world, patients in the United States experience the worst o... |
| 01.09.2023 | How a ‘weighted lottery’ helped underserved patients get a scarce Covid drug | In the midst of the Covid-19 surge during the winter of 2021, the Pittsburgh-based UPMC health system received 450 doses of Evusheld — a scarce antibody cocktail being used at the time to prevent immunocompromised patients from being infect... |
| 01.09.2023 | A Value-Based Care Future Depends On Precision Medicine Scalability | David B. Snow, Jr. is chairman and CEO of Cedar Gate Technologies. |
| 25.08.2023 | An effort to diversify genetic research finds new variant for Parkinson’s disease in African populations | A group of Nigerian, British, and U.S. doctors have discovered a genetic variant that increases the risk of Parkinson’s disease in people of African and mixed-African descent and is not seen in those with European ancestry, a finding that c... |
| 20.08.2023 | Commentary | Guest opinion: Steven Berkowitz: As the mental health crisis for children worsens, a shortage of providers is preventing people from getting help | By Steven Berkowitz
The hospital where I practice recently admitted a 14-year-old girl with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, to our outpatient program. She was referred to us six months earlier, in October 2022, but at the time we w... |
| 14.08.2023 | Listen: How Long Island became the ‘eugenics capital of the world’ | The study of eugenics wasn’t born on Long Island — it’s closer to say it went through puberty there. The idea of eugenics — a pseudoscience that promoted the idea that certain people or groups should be removed from the human gene pool — or... |
| 11.08.2023 | Patient Engagement Is Key to the Success of Value-Based Care Programs | The goal of value-based care (VBC) is to create financial incentives for providers to improve patient outcomes while controlling costs of care. Unlike the traditional “fee for service” (FFS) model, under which providers are reimbursed based... |
| 01.08.2023 | HerMD Snags $18M to Open More Menopause-Focused Health Centers | Even though more than 1 million women across the U.S. undergo menopause each year, only 20% of OB/GYNs receive training on how to address questions related to this natural transition in life or how to treat complications arising from it.
He... |
| 31.07.2023 | Maternal mortality rates are highest for Black women in Ohio | Data: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; Map: Tory Lysik/Axios Visuals
Black women in Ohio are more than five times as likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than the state average, according to a new JAMA study spanni... |
| 28.07.2023 | Many immigrants are ineligible for important U.S. maternal health initiatives | In the U.S., about 16% of Black birthing people are immigrants. But even as the federal government and states take steps to improve national maternal health, particularly among Black birthing parents, many immigrant parents are left out of ... |
| 25.07.2023 | Data du jour: Rural Americans likelier to pass on needed care due to expense | Data: Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey (2020); Chart: Axios Visuals
The U.S. outranks other developed nations in the percentage of rural adults who skip medical care because they can't afford it, per a new Commonwealth F... |
| 18.07.2023 | Doctors created a primary care clinic as their former hospital struggled | GALLUP, N.M. — About a year ago, Valory Wangler, a family medicine doctor, invited a handful of former co-workers to her backyard.
During the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak, Wangler and her colleagues had worked at a hospital in this... |
| 18.07.2023 | From rapid cooling body bags to ‘prescriptions’ for AC, doctors prepare for a future of extreme heat | In Phoenix, where daytime temperatures are topping 110 degrees Fahrenheit for the third straight week, emergency room doctors think of extreme heat as the public health emergency it has proved itself to be: In 2022, Arizona’s Maricopa Count... |
| 13.07.2023 | Open Letter to POTUS/FLOTUS/Members of Congress from Krishnan Suthanthiran, Founder/President TeamBest Global Companies | TeamBest Global Companies logo — www.teambest.com
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| 13.07.2023 | Health
Health | Patients squeezed in fight over who gets to bill for pricey infusion drugs | Samantha Liss | (TNS) KFF Health News
Health insurers and medical providers are battling over who should supply high-cost infusion drugs for patients, with the tussle over profits now spilling into statehouses across the country.
The issue ... |
| 11.07.2023 | Why maternal mortality is so hard to measure — and why the problem may get worse | Every new data point or report appears to confirm it: The U.S. is in the midst of a mounting maternal mortality crisis. With more than 32 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, the risk of dying during pregnancy or in the year after child... |
| 07.07.2023 | Virtual mental health company Valera Health partners with Humana | Humana Medicare Advantage members in 10 states will have access to Valera
Valera Health is a virtual mental health provider serving high acuity patients. Founded in 2015, the New York City-based company partners with healthcare systems and ... |
| 06.07.2023 | Health
Health | Will the doctor see you now? The health system’s changing landscape | Julie Appleby, KFF Health News, Michelle Andrews | (TNS) KFF Health News
Lucia Agajanian, a 25-year-old freelance film producer in Chicago, doesn’t have a specific primary care doctor, preferring the convenience of visiting a local clinic f... |
| 05.07.2023 | Utah's melanoma rate tops the nation | Utah once again has the nation's highest melanoma rate, according to updated data from the CDC.
By the numbers: 38.4 per 100,000 Utahns were diagnosed with the cancer in 2020.
That's a drop from 43.6 in 2019 — likely due to fewer diagnoses ... |
| 05.07.2023 | Changing Healthcare - A Platform Approach Using Data & AI | Did you know that Type II Diabetes, among other diseases, can be reversed? Hold on, can this disease burdening about 5-10% of our population be ‘reversed’? Why aren't we doing it? The answer lies in the alignment and accessibility issues th... |
| 30.06.2023 | The Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision puts lives at risk | The past several months have been grim for health in the U.S. In December, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the lowest life expectancy in more than 25 years. Another CDC report in March showed that maternal mortality ... |
| 30.06.2023 | Mental Health Platform for Seniors Launches with $115M in Financing | About one in four Medicare enrollees have a mental illness, but 40% of those over the age of 50 with serious mental illness struggle accessing care.
That’s the gap Author Health is trying to fill. The company, which launched Wednesday with ... |
| 30.06.2023 | It is your health…own it | (BPT) - Having recently recognized National Cancer Survivor Month, when we celebrate the stories of the brave men and women who have fought and survived this unexpected and life-altering news of cancer diagnosis, it seems an appropriate tim... |
| 30.06.2023 | The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Another Inflection Point For AI? Investors Pour More Money Into The Space | 15 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2023 with our new curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out our new Megadeals Tracker here.
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| 28.06.2023 | Author Health Nabbed $115M To Serve Medicare Patients. It’s Not The Only One | 19 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Health care has always been considered a recession-resistant industry. But when there’s a market downturn and employers cut staff, consumers tighten their belts everywhere — including their employer... |
| 19.06.2023 | Listen: ‘Food apartheid’ starves minority neighborhoods on Long Island | James Boone wakes up at 6 a.m. nearly every Sunday, driving his van to Trader Joe’s and other grocery stores on Long Island in order to rescue food destined for the dumpster. After gathering mountains of produce, Boone heads to a parking lo... |
| 13.06.2023 | Want Real Value-Based Care? End Annual Enrollment In Health Insurance | Health insurance is sold in one year cycles; these cycles remain the single greatest obstacle to ... [+] true value-based care.getty |
