Seniors are reporting patient access to care issues from during the pandemic’s earliest days that outpace problems in any other similarly developed nation, while healthcare organizations from...
Schools are reopening and mask mandates are returning in what should make for interesting conversations during Labor Day barbecues and celebrations.
Convalescent Plasma Unable to Halt COVID-19...
One healthcare organization walks us through the process of implementing health IT designed to support social determinants of health work, while other hospitals fear staffing shortages should they...
Hospitals were never thrilled with the Hospital Price Transparency rule, and a recent independent review shows they have done little to comply with the regulation aimed at helping consumers choose...
In the modern-day take on A Tale of Two Cities, the threat of COVID-19 has become a matter of where you live, putting clearly in harm's way those without the power to be vaccinated or avoid the...
Happy Tuesday! Folks on either coast of the United States are facing either record high temperatures or levels of rainfall. As is the case most times, meteorologists are the only ones satisfied.
FDA...
Welcome back to work after a long (and for many in the Northeast rainy) weekend. Direct-to-consumer marketing appears to be paying off for pharma companies as far as Medicare drug spending is...
CMS issued two proposed bills that would expand home healthcare and access to health insurance exchanges. Meanwhile, Congress continues to push for telehealth bills that would increase rural access to...
United States officials have paused the distribution of Eli Lilly’s COVID-19 antibody therapy after it proves ineffective against variants. New research shows the ground ambulance rides are...
A heatwave has many across the country seeking shelter for a different reason. Stay cool out there!
FDA APPROVES BIOGEN’S ALZHEIMER’S DRUG AFTER DEBATE
The FDA has officially approved...
Delivering care to seniors will look different after the pandemic as senior care providers focus on social isolation and chronic disease management, a new report from Insights found.
Isolation has...
Happy Tuesday as warm temps and dry skies seem to be in the forecast for many of us.
JAMA Study Finds 15% Increase in Out-of-Pocket Costs for Branded Drugs
A JAMA study found that for 53.7% of...
Welcome to Tuesday’s roundup of recent provider, payer, and pharmaceutical news.
Cigna Incentivizing COVID-19 Vaccinations
Cigna announced that it will offer financial rewards to employees who...
Based on social determinants of health and health disparities alone, the number of people the US healthcare industry loses is comparable to seeing a 747 airplane crash out of the sky every day,...
Providers and payers have come to the realization that effecting system change requires a more comprehensive understanding of the patient beyond the clinical encounter.
Social determinants of health...
