Tracking Medicare news, policy, and coverage changes.
(MedPage Today) -- While ingestion of foreign bodies is far more common in children, adults have their share of incidents. Take this case of a 40-year-old man who, after questioning by clinicians, revealed what he'd swallowed while drinking with...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- A ProPublica investigation published last month documented something troubling: parents across the country are declining a simple vitamin K shot for their newborns, and some of those babies are dying of preventable hemorrhages...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS -- Injections of an ultra-long-acting investigational GLP-1 agonist led to significant weight loss in people with overweight or obesity, with reductions continuing after a switch to once-monthly dosing, according...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Richard Lokudu, MD, the medical director of Mongbwalu General Referral Hospital, has received barely any compensation for his work on the front line of one of Congo's deadliest Ebola virus outbreaks. Lokudu and several of his...
Read full article →City leaders said the regulation risks undermining the Affordable Care Act exchanges and adding new costs for local governments. Now, they’re suing to overturn the rule.
Read full article →Many enrollees don’t know they’ll need to report work, education or volunteer hours starting in less than six months in order to stay covered, according to a recent survey from the Health Management Academy.
Read full article →Several blue states successfully persuaded a federal judge to vacate and declare unlawful the policy put in place last September. Healthcare groups had widely denounced the heightened fee, which they said would threaten care delivery in rural and underserved areas.
Read full article →A group of cities is suing the feds to challenge recently finalized changes to the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces, which they say could lead 3 million people to lose coverage.
Read full article →By fine-tuning domain-specific models with real clinical operations data — such as historical performance, feasibility outcomes, enrollment patterns, and resource utilization — hidden information can be translated into structured intelligence. The post How AI is Unlocking Smarter Clinical Trial Protocols appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →Supply chain resilience is far too important to leave with the supply chain specialists. Health systems must elevate the resilience issue to the corporate strategy level and involve officers from other functional areas as well. The post 6 Ways in Which Healthcare Needs to Expand the Supply Chain Resilience Conversation appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →While the policy changes create new opportunities, they also introduce operational complexity. Here’s some important things to know. The post Expanding the Reach of Remote Patient Monitoring: The Real Signal Behind the 2026 RPM Changes appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →The biggest U.S. health insurer is changing how it pays for lactation counseling, and it could cut payment for many providers.
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