Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 9, 2023

Emerging Alzheimer’s disease medications come with high price tags, but researchers with the University of Chicago calculate that in the long run, it’s much less costly to cover these therapies for | Emerging Alzheimer’s medications come with high price tags, but researchers with the University of Chicago calculate that in the long run, it’s much less costly to cover these therapies for Medicare beneficiaries.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 9, 2023

Regulators said they're trying to work around restrictions regarding what groups Medicare is allowed to pay as they look to address social determinants of health.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 9, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission is building out its deep dive into the pharmacy benefit management industry yet again. | The Federal Trade Commission is building out its deep dive into the pharmacy benefit management industry yet again.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 9, 2023

The Making Care Primary Model, which will begin next summer in eight states, aims to strengthen primary care delivery, particularly for safety net and small or independent organizations.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 9, 2023

Walgreens Boots Alliance sold its remaining stake in post-acute care and infusion services company Option Care Health for $330 million. | Walgreens Boots Alliance sold its remaining stake in post-acute care and infusion services company Option Care Health for $330 million.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 9, 2023

IDC Research's Research Director, Value-based Healthcare IT Transformation Strategies, Jennifer Eaton had this to say in recent research: "To meet consumer needs and demands, healthcare is using technology more than ever to support meaningful, productive and engaging interactions. Using comprehensive data collection and deep learning insights are further supporting these efforts by highlighting individual needs and preferences that in turn creates a more engaged customer and can lead to

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 9, 2023

Professors at the University of Arizona argue for more robust infrastructure to understand and research long COVID-19, which impacts one in five Americans.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 9, 2023

Many retail pharmacies do not have buprenorphine in stock, posing a problem for opioid use disorder (OUD) patients, a new study shows. | Pharmacies don’t keep every medication in stock. But that should be the case for buprenorphine, which is time-sensitive for opioid use disorder patients, the study's author argues.

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The Rand Blog

JUNE 9, 2023

There is much the West can do to push back against Chinese economic pressure, and many reasons to do so. Doing so is a core interest of the United States, which now places itself in competition with China over the shape of the international order.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 9, 2023

Simple HealthKit has inked a deal with Walmart to bring at-home diagnostic tests, including diabetes, respiratory wellness and sexual wellness labs, to the largest retailer in the world. | Simple HealthKit has inked a deal with Walmart to bring at-home tests, including diabetes, respiratory wellness and sexual wellness labs, to the largest retailer in the world.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 9, 2023

What You Should Know: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently released its Fentanyl Study Dashboard, an innovative tool that utilizes data from the Toxicology Investigators Consortium (ToxIC), to track and monitor nonfatal overdose trends associated with fentanyl. The dashboard, “Fentalog Study: A Subset of Nonfatal Suspected Opioid-Involved Overdoses with Toxicology Testing” went live in May of 2023 aims to provide vital insights to healthcare professionals, policymake

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Home Health Care

JUNE 9, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The home care industry, so far, has had a relatively quiet 2023. Over the past few years, the home care space has been defined by ample private equity investment, aggressive provider roll-ups, exciting Medicare Advantage (MA) developments and innovative cross-continuum partnerships. There has been much less action this year, despite the continued focus on social determinants of health (SDoH), activities of daily living (ADLs) and non-medical servic

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Bill Of Health

JUNE 9, 2023

By Zainab Ahmed Psychiatric care in the Emergency Department is all-or-nothing and never enough. Often, legal holds are the only intervention available, and they rarely are therapeutic. Upon discharge, our patients are, once again, on their own. The ED acts as a safety-net for a failing health system, one that places little value on mental health services, either preventative or follow-up.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 9, 2023

Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) disclosed Monday that UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum submitted an acquisition bid. That makes for a competition between Optum and Amedisys’ current merger partner, Option Care Health (Nasdaq: OPCH). At this point, it’s unclear whether Optum will ultimately land Amedisys, though early analyst comments suggest Optum’s bid may be more favorable to the home health provider’s shareholders.

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The Rand Blog

JUNE 9, 2023

This weekly recap focuses on whether extremist beliefs are more prevalent among veterans, why it's time to manage traffic in outer space, crises facing the Russian military, and more.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 9, 2023

A new comprehensive study is shining a light on potential factors that have led to home health billing fraud over the years. Among other findings, researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine concluded that home health agencies that share patients across multiple agencies, and those that had high rates of expenditures across hospital referral regions (HRRs), were more likely to commit fraud than others.

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Health IT Analytics

JUNE 9, 2023

A machine learning model may help clinicians maximize the effectiveness of hypertensive medications by making patient-specific treatment recommendations.

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The Rand Blog

JUNE 9, 2023

Massachusetts has a law to ensure ease of access to birth control pills, saying there should be no copays and women can fill a 12-month prescription at once. Infertility care has similar protections. But many health plans don't have to comply with state laws because they are “self-insured.

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Sheppard Health Law

JUNE 9, 2023

Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision holding that the aggravated identity theft statute –and its mandatory minimum of two years – is not triggered merely because someone else’s identification facilitates or furthers the offense in some way. See Dubin v. United States. We have seen a growing trend of the government adding aggravated identity theft in healthcare fraud cases.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 9, 2023

What You Should Know: Pomelo Care , an NYC-based value-based virtual maternity care platform that improves maternal and newborn health outcomes, announced $33M in Seed and Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. The latest round brings its total capital raised to date to $33M. The company supports its patients from preconception through an infant’s first year with personalized and proactive 24/7 care from a dedicated, multispecialty team.

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Sheppard Health Law

JUNE 9, 2023

What is New: Department of Health Care Access and Information (“HCAI”) posted a draft methodology for evaluating applications for the Distressed Hospital Loan Program (“Loan Program”) and is surveying California hospitals to assess interest in the Loan Program. Why it Matters: Hospitals considering participation in the Loan Program: can begin evaluating the information that HCAI may use to evaluate loan awards; and should consider participating in the HCAI survey.

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Etactics

JUNE 9, 2023

Nursing is our nation’s largest healthcare profession. With a little over 4 million registered nurses, it is about 4 times the size of the physician workforce. Nurses play an essential role in patient care, in every healthcare setting. To provide the best service, they must stay up-to-date with the latest information. The healthcare field is changing at a rapid rate.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 9, 2023

What You Should Know: Laudio , a Boston, MA-based AI-powered solution that’s solving for health systems CEOs top issues: labor productivity and burnout secures $13M in Series B funding led by Define Ventures. Laudio acts as a co-pilot to thousands of healthcare managers, amplifying their work and delivering measurable, large-scale improvements. The platform will streamline and standardize best practices for frontline leaders, making crucial data available in real-time and accessible from a singl

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JUNE 9, 2023

This week ICER released a number of potential changes to their value framework. A summary of these are listed in the table below. Clinical Trial Diversity The clinical trial diversity measure is calculated based on a ratio people in the trial compared to the population of patients with the disease in the US. The categories over which this is measured is race, age and sex.

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