The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions grilled Novo Nordisk’s CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen on the company’s high price for its weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy in the United States compared to other countries. Jørgensen never directly answered the question posed by Senate HELP Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) several times: Why […]
As the U.S. population ages at an unprecedented rate, the demand for age-friendly care is skyrocketing, revealing significant gaps in the nation’s healthcare infrastructure. A recent report from the John A. Hartford Foundation emphasizes the urgent need for healthcare systems to adapt to the complex needs of older adults.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a final rule on Significant, Anomalous and Highly Suspect (SAHS) billing activity in the Medicare Shared Savings Program. The final rule concerns financial calculations for 2023 urinary catheter billings and is part of a larger strategy to address billing activity within Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) reconciliation, […]
The question becomes not whether AI can predict disease, but what physicians should tell patients, ethically, such as their chances of getting cancer, says Dr. Lukasz Kowalczyk, a physician at Colorado-based Peak Gastroenterology Associates.
Cardinal Health, which manufactures and distributes medical and laboratory products, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Integrated Oncology Network, a physician-led independent community oncology network, for more than $1.1 billion in cash. ION includes more than 50 practice sites in 10 states representing more than 100 providers. Its continuum of care includes medical […]