A new bipartisan bill, the Ensuring Patient Access to Critical Breakthrough Products Act, has been introduced by lawmakers looking to require Medicare to cover new breakthrough medical devices for four years.

Ahead of Medicaid redeterminations on April 1, UPMC’s Medicaid managed care plan has announced a partnership with Fabric Health to provide on-site health support and social services access in certain laundromats. 

Ninety-four percent of healthcare executives responsible for technology at their organizations said they plan to invest in software to proactively address two of healthcare’s top priorities, clinician burnout and a potential recession, according to healthcare data company Intelligent Medical Objects, a healthcare data enablement company.  Ninety percent rate clinician burnout as a concern for their […]

Quantum computing is now a reality in healthcare. How did this come to be? Jeff Lagasse with Healthcare Finance News gets to the bottom of that and more in this week’s Top Stories. In this episode: 

Scripps Health’s Tracy Chu previews her HIMSS23 presentation, “Automation Improves Digital Education App Performance,” about ways automation has helped patients and clinician workflows.

A Health Affairs Council on Health Care Spending and Value Executive Summary released in February shows that since the 1970s, healthcare growth has outpaced economic growth.  The number one reason, according to the report, are advancements in care and in particular, cancer care that bring higher costs for these technological innovations.

Most consumers don’t negotiate or challenge the medical bills they receive, but if they do challenge a bill, about 78% in a new survey prevailed in getting the disputed charges reduced or removed. AKASA, a developer of AI for healthcare operations, asked more than 2,000 Americans: Have you ever had experience challenging a bill with […]

The average pay for doctors declined 2.4% in 2022, coming at a time when U.S. healthcare workers are facing significant challenges, including economic strains, a growing physician shortage and high rates of work-related burnout.

Stesha Selsky and Meg Furukawa, nurse informaticists for the UCLA Health System, preview their talk at HIMSS23 explaining how algorithms can use patient data to distribute the nursing workload.