There’s an increasing buzz among patients for GLP-1 weight loss drugs, such as Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy, but if patient demand continues to grow and Medicare expanded its coverage in response, it could cost the federal program between $13.6 an…
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has added Tufts Medicine to its pay-for-equity financial payment model.
Blue Cross said it is the first health plan in Massachusetts — and among the first in the nation — to introduce contracts linking financi…
A nurse staffing bill in Minnesota, which exempted the Mayo Clinic, failed to get legislative approval on Monday.
The World Health Organization is calling for caution in using artificial intelligence-generated large language model tools (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Bard, Bert and others that imitate understanding, processing and human communication.
LLMs increasing us…
Bronwyn Spira cofounded Force Therapeutics 12 years ago to answer the challenge of how patients can best recover at home.
The digital care management platform for musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions allows patients to actively engage in their care anytime…
Data from the 2022 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) shows that the uninsured rate in the U.S. is on the decline, with about 27.6 million people of all ages (8.4%) uninsured last year – down from the 30 million (9.2%) people who were uninsured in…
A long-term care pharmacy company has been hit with a data breach. How bad was it? We’ll assess the damage and look at other big news in this week’s Top Stories, including the fate of CVS’ clinical trials business and the latest on a digital menopause …
The story of Daniella Gilboa founding AIVF is one of health equity. Five years in, the company of which Gilboa is CEO has become an example of how AI is changing healthcare.
The in-vitro fertilization company boasts success rates unheard of in the Unit…
Health insurers will have to pay roughly $1.1 billion in rebates this fall, thanks in part to decreased healthcare utilization as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Senator Bernie Sanders and other progressives in the House and Senate have resurrected a Medicare for All bill that would seek to use the federal program as a springboard to a single-payer health system.
Sanders (I-Vermont) was joined by Representative…
