Mergers and acquisitions among hospitals and health systems occurred at a slower clip in the second quarter as compared to Q1, but a trend did emerge: While there were a few “mega mergers” in the quarter – transactions in which the smaller party has annual revenues of $1 billion or more – the tendency was […]
An AI prescribing tool does more than notify clinicians as it directly corrects the prescription if it detects a drug interaction and suggests prescription alternatives, says Emmanuel Bilbault, cofounder and CEO of POSOS.
A radioactive tracer is able to go through the bloodstream to take images for diagnosis and can travel to abnormal places in the body where masses and tumors can hide, says Heidi Veltman, VP & COO of Kaiser Permanente Georgia.
Cityblock, a value-based healthcare provider for Medicaid and dually eligible beneficiaries, is entering into a partnership with Alliance Health, a managed care organization responsible for 137,000 Medicaid-eligible members across North Carolina.
The former Chief Financial Officer of a Chicago hospital schemed with a colleague and the owner of a medical supply company to embezzle more than $15 million in hospital funds, according to a superseding indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Chicago.
The Supreme Court ruling on June 28 to overturn the Chevron doctrine will affect healthcare regulations concerning Medicare, Medicaid and even AI, according to experts. On June 28, in a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court got rid of the decades long Chevron doctrine that has been in place since the Reagan administration. The decision was […]
Medweb builds global teleradiology networks that operate out of remote locations with poor communications infrastructure, enabling telemedicine on ships at sea and active war zones, says Steven Osborne, the company director of federal business.
Reality-based digital therapeutics are able to teach those with neurodiverse challenges social and life skills, says Vijay Ravindran, CEO of Floreo.
When the Supreme Court overturned the Chevron doctrine on June 28, it ended the mandate that federal courts should defer to federal agencies’ interpretations when deciding on ambiguous statutes – which diminishes agency authority and shifts power to the courts, triggering ripple effects that could have widespread credit effects, according to Moody’s Investors Service.
Physician groups are calling on Congress to prevent physicians from receiving a proposed Medicare pay cut of 2.93% in 2025. “The death by a thousand cuts continues,” said AMA president Dr. Bruce A. Scott. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said that by factors specified by law, average payment rates under the physician fee […]