In this episode, Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, Architect, ACA, and Miriam Paramore, Health Tech CEO of RxUtility, discuss strategies to make prescription drugs more affordable, including generic drug access, price transparency, PBM reform and direct-to-consumer pricing. They also explore how…
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States are moving at markedly different speeds to deploy billions of dollars in new federal funding for rural healthcare. The $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program was established under HR 1 and is administered by CMS, which will distribute $10…
Primary care physicians and advanced practice providers at Phoenix-based Banner Health have voted to unionize with the Union of American Physicians and Dentists, marking the first union among the system’s clinicians, according to a Sept. 2 news release from the…
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One executive has left and another is leaving Raleigh, N.C.-based WakeMed Health & Hospitals, a WakeMed spokesperson said in a statement to Becker’s. COO Tom Gough’s last day is next week, while Seth Brody, MD, departed Aug. 21, according to…
In this episode, Shannon Cameron, MBA, MHIIM, CPC, Chief Operating Officer, Anesthesia Financial Solutions, LLC, discusses how AI, automation and advanced analytics are reshaping revenue cycle operations, from denials and prior authorization to reimbursement and payment accuracy. She also shares…
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A team from Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital was first in the U.S. to implant a pediatric heart valve as part of a continued access study. A six-year-old child received the device — Edwards Lifesciences’…
New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health named Sanjay Saint, MD, senior vice president of the health system’s internal medicine department. Dr. Saint will also serve as chair of the Department of Medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, North Shore…