A group of Democratic lawmakers is asking the Trump administration to suspend a Consumer Product Safety Commission program that collects identifiable health data from Americans who visit emergency rooms, KFF Health News reported Sept. 8. Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts…
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CMS has been cracking down on possible fraud with medical equipment suppliers for months, sharing two major updates in recent weeks. CMS announced that it is barring 11 medical supply companies focused on durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies…
Brentwood, Tenn.-based Ardent Health and Tyler, Texas-based UT Health East Texas have opened specialty clinical services inside the new UT Tyler School of Medicine Building, marking the first time patient care and physician training share a single facility in the…
Roughly two-thirds of Medicare’s improper payments1 trace back to missing or insufficient documentation. For a decade, the industry’s answer has been to fix that downstream in the form of better queries, faster attestations, and bigger appeal teams. Now that CMS…
For a decade, cardiology’s exposure to value-based payment has run largely through the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, or MIPS — a program that scores group practices and moves payments modestly. The next model raises the stakes. On Jan. 1, 2027,…
Lawrence, Kan.-based LMH Health and four other independent Kansas health systems have formed Astra Health, a regional collaboration to help improve patient care, strengthen access to specialty services and deliver affordable healthcare options. The collaboration was founded by LMH Health,…
For most of the 2000s, workplace wellness was sold as a way to bend the claims cost curve. A 2010 Harvard Business Review article made the bullish case, using Johnson & Johnson’s program as its example, and wellness moved from…
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AI-powered referral management company Tennr has named two major healthcare heavyweights as industry advisors: Toby Cosgrove, MD, former president and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, and Cindy Hundorfean, former president and CEO of Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network. Both advisors will work…
China is becoming a destination for U.S. patients seeking CAR-T cell therapy, according to a Sept. 6 report from The Wall Street Journal. “China has basically done to CAR-T cell therapy the same thing that it’s done to other industries,…
OpenEvidence said its new Darwin model has become the first AI system in history to score 100% on MedQA, a medical AI benchmark. Darwin also topped other major medical AI benchmarks, scoring 72.8% on MedXpertQA, 82.7% on HealthBench Professional and…