Advocates in Texas say immigrant families, nervous about a higher degree of scrutiny in applications for health and food benefits, are choosing to drop out of Medicaid and SNAP for citizen children.
Category: Health Insurance
Rx: Zucchini, Brown Rice, Turkey Soup. Medicaid Plan Offers Food As Medicine.
A small group of insurers offers some members with serious illnesses medically tailored meals to improve their health.
Podcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ Live from Aspen!
In this episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times report from the Spotlight Health portion of the annual Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. They’re joined by Democratic Govs. John Hickenlooper of Colorado and Steve Bullock of Montana.
Medicaid work requirements are leaving more Americans uninsured, Harvard study says
Researchers looked at 3 states with different policies and found a risk of low-income patients staying or becoming uninsured because of work requirements, health savings and premiums.
Hurricane Maria one year later: Puerto Rico insurance heads talk disaster recovery, lasting impact
MMM President Orlando Gonzalez and COO Manny Sanchez say the devastating storm illustrated how the payer has to continually innovate.
Former Apple, Pepsi CEO: The next wave of hospital consolidation to be shaped by disruptive innovation
Sculley, who is now CMO of RxAdvance, weighs in on what the phase of big deals signal for the healthcare industry’s future.
HIMSS opens calls for proposals for HIMSS19
Submissions for speaking opportunities at the health IT conference are open until July 16, 2018.
Atul Gawande says Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan healthcare venture will take gradual progress
Gawande described the new company as a long target rather than an instant solution to healthcare.
New Medicare model produces nurses to address shortage of primary care, says NEJM
Offering payment to Medicare providers allowed communities to scale up high-quality clinical training for advanced practice nurses in the settings where they’re most needed.
Tell us: What are your hospital’s top revenue cycle pain points?
Healthcare Finance wants to know what plagues your revenue cycle management the most right now and we’ll report the results back to you.
