Frank Diamond
Frank Diamond
CMS and insurers talked about what needed to be done to better address the social determinants of health (SDOH) for beneficiaries. That led to a policy, implemented last year by CMS, that allows for the provision of daily maintenance care u...
Frank Diamond
Frank Diamond
There was a time when insurers were accused (often rightly) of using wellness to lure healthier beneficiaries into MA. Now, the issue is whether wellness can help health plans manage medical spending. "To the degree they do minimize medical...
Thomas Reinke
Thomas Reinke
Effective treatment has helped curb the epidemic, but practical cures have been elusive. Now being tested: a "sterilizing cure" that eradicates HIV from the body, and a "functional cure" that effectively reduces the viral load so it cannot ...
Ed Silverman
Ed Silverman
The annual pharmacy costs for single tablet regimens were $6,100 less compared with regimens involving multiple pills, at least among HIV patients who were taking the medicines as intended, according to an Express Scripts analysis. On avera...
Richard Mark Kirkner
Richard Mark Kirkner
Adjusting their vision so it looks past the messenger and focuses on President Trump's stated goal to end AIDS by 2030 isn't easy for HIV/AIDS advocates. But they aren't being entirely dismissive, either. They have some faith in, and workin...
Air Ambulance Turbulence: Consolidation, Cost Shifting, and Surprise Billing [0.03%]
空中救护车风波：整合、成本转嫁和意外账单问题
Jan Greene
Jan Greene
It is a heroic part of the American health system. Lives are saved, the dire consequences avoided. But the air ambulance industry is consolidating, prices are soaring, and insurers and providers continually fight over network issues. One co...
Robert Calandra
Robert Calandra
Doctors returning home from World War II knew that critically ill or injured patients had a better chance of survival if they were treated in a hospital. In 1976, emergency medicine became the country's 23rd recognized medical specialty. A ...
Emergency Care Examined [0.03%]
审视急救措施
Peter Wehrwein
Peter Wehrwein
It is a high-tech wonder and the product of generations of heavy investment in trauma care. But the emergency department is also the backdoor of the American health care system-a kind of open wound that is symptomatic of deficiencies of how...
Michael D Dalzell
Michael D Dalzell
For all the talk about rapid increases in health care costs, we just might be getting better value for it. So say David Wamble, director of health economics at RTI Health Solutions, and colleagues in a recent Health Affairs article. ...
Digitized Health Opens RWE Floodgates. Can Artificial Intelligence Harness the Power? [0.03%]
数字化健康开启了真实世界证据的闸门。人工智能能够驾驭这种力量吗？
Thomas Reinke
Thomas Reinke
Artificial intelligence is creating another new frontier in real-world evidence gathering and analysis. AI's algorithms can approximate-and maybe even surpass-human cognition and judgment in the analysis of complex medical data. Sure, human...