Gift this item Share this article without paywall. ST. LOUIS BJC HealthCare announced Wednesday afternoon plans to merge with St. Luke’s Health System of Kansas City. The health care systems will retain their names and operate from two headquarters: one in St. Louis serving eastern Missouri and southern Illinois, and another in Kansas City serving … Read more
Currently about one in six adults in California experience mental health problems, while at the same time rates of depression in adolescents have also increased. Healthcare leaders gathered at the 2023 Northern California State Health Reform Policy Conference to discuss the growing need for behavioral health care and the work their organizations are currently doing … Read more
This story is from MT Summarya weekly newsletter summary containing original reports and analysis published every Friday. Since lawmakers packed up and left Helena earlier this month, health and social care providers have been waiting for their hard-fought policy issue to bear fruit: a historic increase in state reimbursements for Medicaid services , including assisted … Read more
Vin Gupta, MD, MPA, a pulmonologist and Air Force veteran, is the chief medical officer of Amazon Pharmacy. He was hired by Amazon in January of 2020 and is helping lead the company’s efforts to grow his presence in healthcare. Medical economics sat down with Gupta at the HIMSS23 conference in Chicago to discuss the … Read more
Overall health care costs could be reduced in Canada by providing free prescription drugs to patients, according to a new study. Led by a University of Toronto medical school researcher, the three-year study aimed to see how eliminating out-of-pocket costs for drugs would impact healthcare system spending, particularly for patients who reported delaying or not … Read more
Re Patients Served by Transparency in Healthcare Pricing (Other opinions, May 18): Dr. Michael Laynes’ editorial was quite good. We do not have a universal, socialized system of medicine in the United States due to the power and influence exercised by insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, and other non-direct care organizations. Their financial support of … Read more
House and Senate Republicans moved quickly to advance a bill banning some health care for transgender youth, but measures that clarify or carve out exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban have stalled at the moment. start of the legislative process. Here’s a look at what state lawmakers did and didn’t do on health care … Read more
Gift this item Share this article without paywall. In part one of this two-part series, we discussed the basics of understanding how to read the benefit/EOB explanation of insurance plans. Each payer has its own EOB. As we move on to part two, we will try to reconcile insurance EOB with health care provider expenses … Read more
To promote health equity, quality, access, accountability and transparency, the new Medi-Cal Managed Care Plan (MCP) contracts will go into effect statewide in California starting January 2024. MCPs perform a key role in CalAIMwhich stands for California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal, and will prioritize prevention and whole-person care. Under the new contracts, Blue Cross of … Read more
NEW YORK, May 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The New York Public Service Retirees Organization secured another major appeal victory on behalf of Medicare-eligible retired city workers and their dependents. The victory comes in a class action lawsuit filed last year by the organization challenging the city and EmblemHealth’s illegal decision to levy tuition fees on … Read more