Five major companies pledge faster, electronic prior authorizations
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Five major companies have…
What Good Is Health Coverage If You Cannot Get to the Doctor – The Health Care Blog
By JOE MKHITARYAN We spend a lot of time talking about who has health insurance. I think we need to spend more time asking who can actually…
INVEST Digital Health Celebrates Healthcare Innovation in Texas
The INVEST Digital Health conference, scheduled for October 29 at Pegasus Park in Dallas calls attention to how consumer-centered care is…
Ghost networks haunt mental health access, study finds
Dive Brief: A secret shopper study conducted by researchers at the Ohio State University found that less than a quarter of calls to mental…
Medicine Gave Itself a Code for Diabetes Remission. A Year Later, the Payment System Still Can’t See It. – The Health Care Blog
By HANA KAHLEOVA “Will this only get worse?” Patients with type 2 diabetes have asked me some version of that question for my entire career.…
Drugmakers seek to intervene in lawsuit challenging 340B pilot
Dive Brief: Drugmakers are fighting back against hospitals’ latest attempt to kill the controversial 340B rebate pilot program, arguing…
A Regulatory Blind Spot Hiding in Plain Sight – The Health Care Blog
By JUSTIN MCKAY When I’m brought back into the diagnostic area, one of the first things I see is a lead apron, well-worn and folded into…
3 tips to manage soaring health costs
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. WESTMINSTER, Colorado — The time to start…
Discharge Planning Ends at the Funeral Home. That’s a Health System Failure. – The Health Care Blog
By EVAN REID We reconcile medications at discharge because we decided, correctly, that the handoff out of a hospital is a clinical event with…