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| Aug 26, 2025 | A world on weight loss drugs: How GLP-1s are reshaping the economy | Obesity drugs, or GLP-1s, have had a transformative effect on Wall Street and waistlines over recent years.
As adoption grows and new applications for the drugs come to light, experts say that could have sweeping outcomes for both health an... |
| Sep 9, 2024 | From 2020 to 2023, Mental Health Disorders in Pregnant Women Rose 53 Percent, While Substance Use Disorders in Pregnant Women Increased 8 Percent, according to New FAIR Health Study | Vaginal Deliveries Outnumbered C-sections by About Two to One Nationally from 2020 to 2023
During That Same Period, Several Nonphysician Specialties Increased in Their Share of Claim Lines on the Day of Delivery, Including Certified Registe... |
| Aug 14, 2024 | In May, Telehealth Utilization Decreased Nationally and in Every Region but the West, Where It Increased | Mental Health Conditions Continued to Rise as a Percentage of Telehealth Claim Lines Nationally and in Every Region
The Age Group 31-40 Accounted for the Largest Share of Telehealth Claim Lines Nationally and in Every Region
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| Jul 15, 2024 | In April, Telehealth Utilization Increased Nationally and in South, but Decreased in Other Regions; Telehealth Utilization in South Increased by 7.2 Percent from March to April | Mental Health Conditions Rose as a Percentage of Telehealth Claim Lines Nationally and in Every Region, While Acute Respiratory Diseases and Infections Fell
NEW YORK, July 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In April 2024, telehealth utilization incre... |
| Jul 9, 2024 | US STD Rates Surge, with Big Increase Among Seniors, Study Finds | By John Lopez
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Recent data reveals a concerning surge in sexually transmitted disease (STD) diagnoses a... |
| Jul 9, 2024 | STD Diagnoses Rose 4.8 Percent from 2020 to 2023; Patients in the 65 and Older Age Group Had the Largest Increase | Syphilis, Gonorrhea, and HIV and AIDS Were the Fastest-Growing STD Diagnoses, according to FAIR Health Study
NEW YORK, July 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The percentage of commercially insured patients with sexually transmitted disease (STD) diag... |
| Jun 13, 2024 | National Median In-Network Amount for C-section Rose Nine Percent, from Less Than $16,000 in September 2022 to Nearly $17,000 in September 2023 | Alaska Has Highest Median In-Network Amount for Vaginal Delivery, New Jersey for C-section, according to FAIR Health Cost of Giving Birth Tracker
NEW YORK, June 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The national median allowed amount for C-section rose ... |
| May 15, 2024 | Mental Health Conditions, the Top Telehealth Diagnostic Category, Rose in Percentage of Telehealth Claim Lines Nationally and in Every Region in February 2024 | In February, Telehealth Utilization Overall Increased Nationally and in Midwest and West, but Fell in Northeast and South, according to FAIR Health's Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker
Nationally and in Every Region, the Median Allowed Amo... |
| Apr 29, 2024 | Share of Patients with Mental Health Diagnoses Rose 40 Percent Nationally from 2019 to 2023, according to New FAIR Health Study | Overall, Generalized Anxiety Disorder Was Most Common Mental Health Diagnosis in 2023; among Patients Aged 0-13 Years, ADHD Was Most Common
Mental Health Diagnoses Increased in All Age Groups and in All States
NEW YORK, April 29, 2024 /PRNe... |
| Jan 17, 2024 | FAIR Health Launches Tool to Search for Medical Procedure Costs Using Map of Body | Body Part Procedure Locator Is Latest Enhancement to Free, Award-Winning FAIR Health Consumer Website
FAIR Health launched the Body Part Procedure Locator, a tool that uses a map of the human body to help consumers identify medical procedur... |
| Jan 5, 2024 | A British mom who stayed in Denmark's 'maternity hotel' says she had on-call nurses and room service for 3 days after giving birth | Culture A British mom who stayed in Denmark's 'maternity hotel' says she had on-call nurses and room service for 3 days after giving birth
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| Jun 13, 2023 | Here are the states where it's costliest to give birth | Data: FAIR Health; Note: Costs include the delivery itself, anesthesia, fetal nonstress tests, ultrasounds, laboratory work and breast pump; Map: Alice Feng/Axios
Having a baby isn't cheap anywhere, but there are some states in the U.S. whe... |
| Oct 13, 2022 | BravePact EMS Billing Service for Ambulance Companies Outshines in the Golden State | BravePact EMS Billing Services
We know that margins are thinner now more than ever, and that exposure from liability is greater than ever. It’s about time that a billing service plays a part in helping on both fronts.”
— Anthony Schwartz
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| Sep 13, 2022 | Imaging Strategy and Digital Mastery in Healthcare IT | Chris Jenkins, Senior Vice President at Healthlink Advisors
How you handle imaging says a lot about your organization’s digital maturity
Modern imaging
You can trace the profound value and impact of medical imaging back to the late 1800s an... |
| Jul 19, 2022 | Digital health tech infrastructure startup Healthie scores $16M | Photo: master1305/Getty Images |
| Oct 29, 2021 | dot.LA Summit: Telehealth Changed the Game for Health Care – for Most | Even before the coronavirus pandemic, telehealth had been lauded as a great equalizer in the health care world.
The benefits were clear: It could help patients avoid travelling long distances and allow those with dependents to seek help wit... |
| Oct 29, 2021 | What Teladoc’s Q3 earnings reveal about the future of telehealth | The news: Teladoc reported $522 million in revenues in Q3—an 81% year-over-year (YoY) spike. But its total net loss was $84.3 million in Q3 this year, which is more than double its net loss from Q3’2020.
Q3 also marked business growth for T... |
| Oct 19, 2021 | FAIR Health Launches Interactive Maps Showing State-by-State COVID-19 Hospitalization and Treatment Costs | NEW YORK, Oct. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today FAIR Health is launching a set of free, online, interactive maps displaying typical costs for COVID-19 treatment and hospitalization state by state across the nation. Part of FAIR Health's "... |
| Sep 21, 2021 | National Average Charge for a Complex Hospital Stay for COVID-19 Is $317,810, FAIR Health Finds | NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The average billed charge for a complex COVID-19 hospitalization in the United States is $317,810, according to new cost estimates from FAIR Health. The average estimated allowed amount (the total am... |
| Sep 13, 2021 | Teladoc expands into AR-enabled virtual surgery support via Proximie partnership | The news: Telehealth giant Teladoc is partnering with health-tech company Proximie to integrate the latter’s augmented reality-enabled surgical support system with Teladoc’s Solo platform—an integrated virtual care platform for providers th... |
| Sep 9, 2021 | Telehealth visits fall from pandemic highs | After soaring to record heights at the beginning of the pandemic, telehealth visits continue on a downward slide. They decreased 10% between May and June, according to the latest data by FAIR Health, which is based on claims from the privat... |
| Jun 28, 2021 | Hospitals Can Teach Life Science Companies a Thing or Two About Patient Engagement | Greg Kefer, Chief Marketing Officer at Lifelink Systems
The efforts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine focused the world’s attention on the pharmaceutical industry. Before the pandemic hit, very few people outside of the healthcare industry unde... |
| Mar 31, 2021 | Telehealth and Urgent Care Centers Showed Largest Growth in Utilization from 2018 to 2019, among Venues of Care Studied | NEW YORK, March 31, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- From 2018 to 2019, telehealth increased in utilization by 73 percent, urgent care centers by 47 percent, retail clinics by 39 percent, emergency rooms (ERs) by 33 percent and ambulatory surgery cente... |
| Jan 6, 2021 | 66% of Americans fear they won’t be able to afford health care this year | With millions of Americans still unemployed and the Covid-19 pandemic showing no signs of slowing, many are uncertain if they’ll be able to pay for all their health-care needs in 2021.
About 66% of Americans report they are very, somewhat o... |
| Dec 17, 2020 | Is Broadband Access The Missing Key to Improving Rural Healthcare? | The plain truth is that rural America has always had a market failure problem.
In the 1930s, the problem manifests as woefully inadequate telephone and electrical service. The spaces were just too wide open, the potential customers too few,... |
| Nov 24, 2020 | Most Health Insurers Are Waiving Covid-19 Costs For Consumers, New Analysis Shows | 17 November 2020, Bavaria, Krailling: A nurse at the Maria Eich nursing home measures the ... [+] temperature of a resident wearing a mouth and nose protector with a thermometer. Photo: Sven Hoppe/dpa - ATTENTION: Only for editorial use in ... |
| Jan 15, 2020 | Using states as living laboratories to solve surprise medical billing | Although surprise billing has been the subject of vigorous debate in federal and state legislatures, work to resolve the issue on the federal level reached an impasse when the House passed a spending package that did not include anticipated... |
| Aug 13, 2019 | Bringing transparency to the notion of price transparency | Health care price transparency is making headlines again. In late July, in accord with a recent presidential executive order, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a proposed rule requiring hospitals to make more price infor... |
| Jun 12, 2018 | Website offers a living laboratory for examining health care prices and quality | To make wise decisions about their health, consumers need to know how much their health care costs. That’s the growing consensus from all sides of the political spectrum. But because publishing information about health care costs and qualit... |
| Feb 3, 2014 | ACA: Healthcare for those in southwest Georgia is far from ‘affordable’ | “We’re not real happy with the way things are going in our neck of the woods,” said David Hardin, Mullins’ insurance broker.
All the dynamics that drive up health costs have coalesced here in Southwest Georgia, pushing up premiums. Expensiv... |
| Patients really like telehealth for its convenience and speedy access—we detail other drivers of high satisfaction | The news: Patients who’ve used telehealth services in the past 12 months were overwhelmingly positive (94%) that they’d use it again, per the JD Power 2022 US Telehealth Satisfaction Study.
Digging into the data: Convenience and fast access... |
| Telemental health demand isn’t enough to save some startups | The news: Telehealth giant Amwell made a second bid for online therapy provider Talkspace, offering about $200 million, per The Calcalist.
How we got here: Talkspace was the first online mental health company to go public and its financial ... |
| Telehealth visits fall from pandemic highs | After soaring to record heights at the beginning of the pandemic, telehealth visits continue on a downward slide. They decreased 10% between May and June, according to the latest data by FAIR Health, which is based on claims from the privat... |
| Amazon Care adds its missing puzzle piece: mental health visits | The news: Amazon’s telehealth business Amazon Care is reportedly adding mental health visits to its list of services, per Insider.
Amazon Care users will have access to on-demand telemental health visits with in-network therapists and psych... |
| Teladoc expands into AR-enabled virtual surgery support via Proximie partnership | The news: Telehealth giant Teladoc is partnering with health-tech company Proximie to integrate the latter’s augmented reality-enabled surgical support system with Teladoc’s Solo platform—an integrated virtual care platform for providers th... |
| ACA: Healthcare for those in southwest Georgia is far from ‘affordable’ | ALBANY, Ga. — If Lee Mullins lived in Pittsburgh, he could buy mid-level health coverage for his family for $940 a month. If he lived in Beverly Hills, he would pay $1,405.
But Mullins, who builds custom swimming pools, lives in Southwest G... |
| What Teladoc’s Q3 earnings reveal about the future of telehealth | The news: Teladoc reported $522 million in revenues in Q3—an 81% year-over-year (YoY) spike. But its total net loss was $84.3 million in Q3 this year, which is more than double its net loss from Q3’2020.
Q3 also marked business growth for T... |
