by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 31, 2023 | Tea Leaves, Transition to Value
Efforts to move dialysis care into the home are gaining traction three years after then-President Donald Trump set a goal of having 80 percent of newly diagnosed kidney failure patients receive transplants or home dialysis by 2025. Last year, 26.6 percent of Medicare...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 31, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
The Lown Institute released its ranking of the most socially responsible hospitals, with just 54 out of 3,600 receiving “A” grades for their work across the three main categories of equity, value, and outcomes. The Lown Institute is a health care think tank that...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 31, 2023 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a treatment for the prevention of RSV among infants and toddlers, making it the first preventive drug for the common virus that surged last winter among small children. The FDA approved nirsevimab-alip, or Beyfortus,...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 31, 2023 | Health IT, Tea Leaves
Teladoc is tapping into its two-year partnership with tech giant Microsoft to integrate AI and ambient clinical documentation tech into its Solo virtual care platform, the two companies announced Tuesday. Teladoc and Microsoft teamed up in 2021, during the height of...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 31, 2023 | D.C. News, Tea Leaves
Friday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its withdrawal of two policy statements outlining its former position on antitrust enforcement in health care markets, echoing a similar decision from the Department of Justice (DOJ) earlier this year. The agencies’...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 31, 2023 | Tea Leaves, Transition to Value
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has released a request for information to design a future episode-based payment model. The center is looking for feedback on questions related to care delivery, incentive structure alignment, clinical episodes,...
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