The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has signaled plans to make cuts to the Medicaid program, saying it wants to put an end to “mounting expenditures,” such as housekeeping for non-Medicaid-eligible individuals, and high-speed internet for rural healthcare providers.
Northwell Health and Nuvance Health’s roughly $18 billion proposed merger, which has been in the works since last year, has received final regulatory approval from the Connecticut Office of Health Strategy, the organizations announced this week.
Information on injuries from the popular sport is embedded in the chart notes, making it ripe for genAI’s ability to extract information from unstructured data, says Kathy Bailey, principal data intelligence analyst at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
A federal judge in Texas has blocked a nursing home staffing rule mandated by the Biden administration last year.
Emergency physicians across the U.S. are facing increasing financial and operational pressures that are threatening their ability to provide care, according to a new report authored by RAND and supported by the Emergency Medicine Policy Institute (EMPI).
For health IT professionals looking to grow their careers, accept AI as an opportunity and learn to use and adopt the technology, says Bob Dichter, founder and career coach at Phoenix Rising Career Services.
A wearable asthma tool created by CareEvolution helps patients self- manage their condition and the data that’s gathered gives alerts when there is a change in baseline conditions, says Chief Transformation Officer Dr. Bronwyn Harris.
Mergers and acquisitions in Q1 reflect market volatility and economic uncertainty surrounding tariffs and potential policy changes from the new administration, according to a Kaufman Hall Mergers and Acquisitions Quarterly Activity Report.
Medicare Advantage plans are getting a 5% payment increase, which is above the anticipated 4.3% released in the Advance Notice.. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued the rate announcement this week as part of the Medicare Advantage Part C and Part D Payment Policies for 2026.
Health insurance members across both commercial and Medicare Advantage plans are increasingly using their health plan’s websites and mobile apps as their primary conduits of communication, but the quality of these digital experiences is lagging far behind what they have come to expect from other industries they interact with digitally, such as financial services, property […]