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CMS finalizes 5.06% Medicare Advantage benchmark increase
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized an increase of the average benchmark payments to Medicare ...
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CHAI embarks on post-deployment monitoring for AI as FDA oversight lags
In the absence of a federal framework to monitor the impact of artificial intelligence in the clinic, the Coalition for ...
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CMS reviewing controversial New York Medicaid home health program overhaul
Rollout of New York’s state Medicaid program is receiving close scrutiny from advocacy groups—and now, the federal government ...
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Digital health startups raise $3B in Q1 as market faces near-term uncertainty
AI fundraises, tech partnerships and M&A deals, including DispatchHealth and Medically Home's tie-up, and plans for a ...
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2nd measles death reported in Texas as health experts call for stronger response from HHS
A second school-age child in Texas has died from measles amid a fast-growing, multistate outbreak that now totals more than ...
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Alliance for Connected Care sends virtual care policy requests to Oz's CMS
The Alliance for Connected Care is petitioning the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS') new administrator, Mehmet ...
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Without new financial support, emergency departments, physicians struggle to meet rising demand: RAND
Emergency department use has nearly recovered to prepandemic levels, but rising acuity, insufficient capacity and a laundry list of financial roadblocks are straining their viability and threatenin | ...
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Medicare Advantage final rule excludes anti-obesity drug coverage under Medicare, Medicaid
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a Medicare Advantage (MA) rule proposed by the Biden ...
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'Cost us more in the long run': Federal actions reverse progress on HIV epidemic, experts warn
Amid mass layoffs of federal health workers, which began earlier this week, several key public health offices have been ...
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Rural areas rapidly losing independent docs, practices: PAI report
Rural areas are quickly losing independent physicians and medical practices amid the corporatization of healthcare, a new ...
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FTC Chair Ferguson changes course on recusal from PBM insulin case
Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson has reversed course on his decision to recuse himself from the agency's legal ...
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5 years later: A look back at the COVID-19 pandemic and how healthcare has changed
It has been five years since the the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.  | Fierce Healthcare talked to a ...