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UnitedHealth skips hearing on Change Healthcare cyberattack

WEBIn the first federal hearing focused on the massive cyberattack on Change Healthcare, lawmakers had many important questions for UnitedHealth, which owns …

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Many Americans have health insurance that isn't 'good enough'

WEBThe push toward providing all Americans with meaningful health insurance could be derailed by rising costs that chip away at these gains, leaving more and more …

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It’s time to change the definition of ‘health’

WEBThe WHO defines health as a state of “complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”. The Centers for Disease …

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Reinventing health care in 2023

WEBDo the math and it’s easy to see that realigning health care incentives in the U.S. is inevitable. The average family insurance premium was $6,348 in 2000. By 2020 …

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How technology is shaping the future of health care

WEBTechnology is rapidly changing the world of health care for both patients and providers. Artificial intelligence tools are being used to diagnose diseases, remote monitoring …

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Could the future of health care access lie in mobile clinics

WEBMeanwhile, in March 2023, Congress passed the MOBILE Health Care legislation to expand care in rural and underserved communities. The number of health …

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Hospital at home shows how to bring innovation to health care

WEBA s a health care economist who studies innovation, and as a management consultant who helps health systems and insurers adopt new technologies, we have had …

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A national patient ID is essential for patient safety

WEBA national strategy for patient identification is essential for connecting the fragmented health care system, while making it safer and more efficient for patients and …

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States with best health outcomes still have large racial disparities

WEBA new analysis of health inequities in the United States shows that every state has deep racial and ethnic disparities in the performance of their health care systems.. …

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American taxpayers paid $1.8 trillion in health care costs in 2022

WEBAdobe. A merican taxpayers footed the bill for at least $1.8 trillion in federal and state health care expenditures in 2022 — about 41% of the nearly $4.5 trillion in …

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Site-neutral payments would reduce costs for patients and payers

WEBA s two former secretaries of Health and Human Services, we are all too familiar with the struggle of finding narrow openings for bipartisanship. Despite our different …

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These tech startups are betting on hospital price transparency rules

WEBHospital and health insurance pricing data surfaced by new federal transparency rules are creating an opportunity for startups to help patients fight …

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Microsoft is selling AI in health care, and helping to set its

WEBF or a company moving as quickly as possible to build artificial intelligence into everything — including health care — Microsoft spends a lot of time talking about how to …

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Moving the conversation about obesity beyond the scale

WEBEvery so often, the conversations that people in health care have become so pervasive that they dominate the zeitgeist, intersecting with mainstream media and …

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UnitedHealth, Optum discontinue NaviHealth name

WEBStarting in the first quarter of 2024, Optum’s post-acute-care companies will be called Home & Community Care, according to internal documents obtained by STAT.

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Private equity owned hospitals target of new Senate investigation

WEBThe panel’s ranking member, Sen. Chuck Grassley, had previously opened a probe into hospitals in his home state of Iowa in March 2023, focusing on Ottumwa …

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Asian American health disparities hidden by lumping data

WEBAsian Indians far outpace the nation’s median income of about $70,000, earning on average nearly $120,000 annually. That’s more than twice the average …

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Personalized medicine: We're not there yet

WEBIn a paper published in 2022, researchers showed that genetically based tests and treatments were reaching fewer than 40% of the people with advanced non-small …

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Elevance, private equity launch primary care company

WEBT hese days, the surefire way to get ahead in health insurance is to become a health care provider, and Elevance just upped the ante. It’s joining with private equity to …

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Readout LOUD podcast: New obesity startup, future of Teladoc

WEBThis episode, we talk to Clive Meanwell about his new obesity startup, Metsera, and running head-to-head trials against Wegovy and Zepbound.

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Health Care Service Corp to buy Cigna Medicare Advantage plans

WEBC igna is officially exiting the Medicare business, agreeing to sell all of its Medicare insurance plans to Health Care Service Corp., a large Blue Cross Blue Shield …

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How AI can help satisfy FDA's drug, device diversity requirements

WEBT he Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act of 2022 (FDORA), which was passed as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, will encourage greater …

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