In a Medicaid-funded pilot project starting with 19 counties, clinicians and other providers are now in charge of deciding what kind of treatment an offender needs. The change has rankled some judges and attorneys — and forced some felons to spend more time in jail — but it has been largely embraced by clinicians and county agencies.
MA enrollment is projected to increase while plans offer new types of supplemental benefits, CMS says.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you don’t have to.
The report raises questions of whether Medicare Advantage plans inappropriately deny claims to increase profits.
In this episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” — recorded in Austin, Texas, as part of the 2018 Texas Tribune Festival — Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Joanne Kenen of Politico, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News and Alice Ollstein of Politico talk about how health issues will play in midterm elections, the Trump administration’s move that could penalize legal immigrants who use government aid programs and other topics. Plus, they are joined by Dell Medical School’s Mini Kahlon.
Medical school and residency programs have an untapped opportunity to educate clinicians about using AI in patient care.
Federal family planning funds, known as Title X, will soon fund for-profit women’s clinics that bar condoms, hormonal birth control and IUDs and offer only “natural family planning.”
The sale will be completed by the end of the year but is contingent upon the closing of its merger with CVS Health.
There is still a demand for voice and regular mail as communication methods, but that demand is shrinking.
