Most expect greater revenues and improved profitability, according to Deloitte data.
Category: Health Insurance
Trends 2025: AI in healthcare progressing despite reimbursement hurdles
Artificial intelligence is poised to become a major force in healthcare. The technology is developing at breakneck speed, and both payers and providers are examining the potential use cases, with one survey from November showing 73% of organizations pl…
Trends 2025: AI in healthcare progressing despite reimbursement hurdles
Artificial intelligence is poised to become a major force in healthcare. The technology is developing at breakneck speed, and both payers and providers are examining the potential use cases, with one survey from November showing 73% of organizations pl…
Trends 2025: Healthcare leaders are focusing on patient access, AI and Medicare Advantage
Healthcare organizations are setting their priorities for 2025, with 52.8% of hospital and health system leaders identifying patient access, throughput and capacity as their top focus.
Medicare’s decision to stop telehealth coverage in 2025: an urgent call to action
Medicare is planning to stop coverage for telehealth in 2025—unless Congress acts by the end of 2024. According to Medicare’s website: Absent Congressional action, beginning January 1, 2025, the statutory limitations that were in place for Medica…
5.6 million people affected by Ascension cyberattack
Ascension has submitted a report to federal regulators showing that about 5.6 million people were affected by a ransomware attack on the nonprofit health system in May.
Medicare enrollees to pay less for 64 additional drugs
Some Medicare enrollees will pay less for 64 drugs available through Medicare Part B, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The drugs will have a lowered Part B coinsurance rate from January 1 through March 31 of next year; that’s b…
WashU Medicine to make neurosurgery inroads with philanthropic gift
WashU Medicine in St. Louis is turning a philanthropic gift of $50 million into a vehicle for recruiting neurosurgeons and researchers, and enhancing the research capabilities of the facility’s neurosurgery department.
Andrew Taylor, an emeritus truste…
Telehealth gets short extension, physician pay is cut in spending bill
President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a spending bill that averts a government shutdown, but some healthcare provisions that were in the original bill didn’t make it to final passage.
Acute hospital-care-at-home and telehealth temporary waivers were c…
HIMSSCast: Research as restorative physician medicine
The idea to start a company to make clinical research easier for physicians and more accessible to patients began while Alexander Saint-Amand was still in college. His mother, who was sick, hoped to get into a clinical trial, but there was limited access.
