How Would the New Administration’s Nominations Impact Obesity Care?
The nomination of President Trump of Dr. Mehmet Oz to direct the services centers of Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has generated buzz throughout the health industry. When it comes to obesity, Medicare and Medicaid treatment, they only cover Ozempic for diabetes treatment, not for out -of -label use such as
A Primer on Health Equity Research – Healthcare Economist
According to the World Health Organization, “three distinctive characteristics, when combined, make mere variations or health differences into a social inequality in health. They are systematic, socially produced (and, therefore, modifiable) and unfair. This is how a group of special interest group of ISPOR of Griffiths et al. (2025) starts.
Nemours CEO: Shepherding of Resources Fueling Infrastructure Investments
In December, Nemours Children’s Health leaders, based in Wilmington, Delaware and Jacksonville, Florida, announced that the health system will make investments for a total of $ 430 million in their operations of Delaware Valley and Central Florida. In Delaware, Nemours will spend $ 130 million in 2025 on three projects:
Informaticians Help Fine-Tune Pediatric Clinical Guidelines for EHRs
A group of computer scientists has been helping the American Academy of Pediatrics to improve the quality of clinical guidelines and policies that standardize the provision of attention. The research scientist of the Registrief Randall Grout, MD, MS and Stephen Downs, MD, MS of Wake Forest Institute Health innovation To
Concentra Prepares to Pay $265M for Occupational Health Peer
The leaders of the Occupational Health Services Company concentrates Group Holdings have signed an agreement to buy a regional chain that will increase its network of centers by almost 10 percent. It concentrates Addison, Texas, plans to play $ 265 million in cash and debt for the US. Nova directs
A High-Performing Clinically Integrated Network: Your Next Great Idea
Approximately half of hospital systems in the US are currently experiencing small operational margins, if they experience positive margins. The business model is a challenge, since hospital costs increase faster than hospital organizations can increase prices. It is likely that government payers do not increase their rates enough to cover
HCA CEO: Site-Neutral Payments Wouldn’t Hurt Network Construction Push
The largest hospital company in the country will not review its strategy for the development of outpatient facilities in the event that a neutral payments system becomes a Medicare policy, His CEO said on January 24. Interested parties of health have taken into account the opposite positions in recent years
Ardent Executives Look Beyond Urgent Care in Outpatient Plans
After reaching agreements for a total of 27 urgent care centers during the last year, Ardent Health Partners Inc. leaders are planning other forms of outpatient expansion while maintaining an attentive for system acquisitions. Ardent, based in Nashville, which was made public last summer, earlier this month he announced the
Supreme Court Will Hear Arguments on ACA Preventive Care Case
The Supreme Court declared that it would assume a challenge to a part of the Low Price Health Care Law (ACA) that requires insurance companies to cover some types of preventive care at no cost, Adam Liptak reported The New York Times January 10. “The new challenge is aimed at
Which states have the most and least progressive tax systems? – Healthcare Economist
Those are the questions a NBER Working Document, Heathcote, Storesletten and Violante Its objective is to respond. Using a variety of survey and administrative data, the authors reach the following 8 conclusions: (i) The federal tax and transfers system is progressive. (ii) State and local tax systems and transfers are
UnitedHealth Group Leaders See Cost Pressures Enduring
Volume coding payments between hospital operators and insurance companies do not show signs by 2025. And according to the results of the fourth quarter and the 2025 perspectives of UnitedHealth Group Inc., it seems that suppliers have the advantage by now. The leaders of UnitedHealth Group, based in Minnesota, father
Building the Connected Hospital: Bridging Operational Gaps Through Technology
Date: Thursday, February 13, 2025Time: 11:00 am et / 10:00 am ct / 8:00 am ptDuration: 1 hour Are you already registered? Click here To log in. Summary In the current panorama of quick evolution medical care, operational efficiency and patient -centered care depend on the perfect integration of advanced
