The Last Mile of Care: Why Value-Based Success Starts at the Bedside
The last mile of care isn’t where the work ends — it’s where value begins. The most advanced analytics mean nothing if they can’t be activated by the people delivering care.
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The Top Three Most Affordable Medical Alert Systems for Seniors
Medical alert systems are crucial for seniors stay independent while living alone. These three companies offer affordable systems that give everyone peace of mind.
Solving Healthcare’s Provider Data Problem Starts with Interoperability
Break down the silos. Take control of your provider data.
Creating a Specialty Pharmacy in a Space-Challenged Hospital Campus
Creating a specialty pharmacy in a space-challenged hospital campus can seem like a daunting task, particularly in a crowded metropolitan or suburban area. Here are some creative solutions to solve for this barrier.
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ACA Marketplace Insurers Proposing 15% Median Premium Increase in 2026
Most ACA Marketplace insurers are requesting premium increases between 10% and 20% for 2026, according to a new analysis. More than a quarter (27%) are requesting increases of 20% or more.
Roche Reports Mixed Data for Drug Trying to Jump on the Biologic Bandwagon in COPD
Roche’s astegolimab met the main goal of one pivotal COPD study but failed another, mirroring the mixed results recently posted by a Regeneron Pharmaceuticals COPD drug candidate that goes after the same target. Biologics are a new treatment option for COPD following approvals of antibodies from Sanofi and GSK.
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A Path to Healing: Discovering Arizona’s PTSD Treatment Centers
Explore top PTSD treatment centers in Arizona, offering personalized care, holistic therapies and expert support to help individuals heal and reclaim their lives.
Why Leadership Is the Missing Link in Patient Safety Reform
Patient safety has lost its place on the priority list. Without strong, sustained attention from those at the top, safety efforts rarely take root.
Navigating the Path to Success in Medical Devices: Strategy, Reimbursement, and Competition
The keys are establishing a culture that applauds ideas and learns from “failures” rather than seeking to place blame, recognizing that the best ideas can come from any source, and benefiting from cross-functional discussion and challenge.
Why Providers Aren’t Happy with CMS’ Outpatient Medicare Physician Payment Proposal
CMS proposed a 2.4% Medicare payment increase for hospitals’ outpatient departments and ambulatory surgery centers in 2026, along with a new two-tiered physician reimbursement structure based on participation in value-based care models. Provider groups are welcoming the short-term boosts, but they fear the changes don’t go far enough to address their long-term financial pressures.
Why HHS’ Notice On Federal Public Benefits Harms Both Lawfully Present and Undocumented Immigrants
Numerous advocacy organizations are sounding the alarm over a recent HHS notice that restricts access to federal benefits for undocumented immigrants, as well as for those lawfully present.
What Are Healthcare Organizations Getting Wrong about Email Security?
A new report by Paubox calls for healthcare IT leaders to dispose of outdated assumptions about email security and address the challenges of evolving cybersecurity threats.
Atherosclerosis and Osteoporosis: A Tale of Two Conditions
Why has there been so little progress against the rate of osteoporotic fractures and the associated morbidity and mortality? The deaths are real, the pain and suffering are real — and almost all of us have witnessed it. And, of course, the cost to our health system, $57 billion per year, is real.
Protecting Members’ Medicaid Coverage Must Start Now
Here's a roadmap that brings together a wide range of existing and new initiatives under four key goals that enable community-based organizations to take stock of their existing capabilities and coordinate across them effectively.
Medicaid Helps Families — Like Mine — Live the Promise of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”
At the heart of this fight are the patients whose lives quite literally depend on Medicaid. But we are also fighting for the caregivers who show up every day, the children who rely on stability, the families who rally around their loved ones, and all those whose lives are shaped by access to care.
Democratic Attorneys General Sue Trump Administration Over New ACA Rule
A group of Democratic attorneys general filed a lawsuit against HHS and CMS, arguing that their recent final rule will harm access to care under the Affordable Care Act.
Sarepta CEO: ‘We Have, I Believe, a Very Laudable History of Being Extraordinarily Transparent’
Sarepta Therapeutics knew about the death of a patient treated with its experimental gene therapy for a type of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, but said nothing publicly for a month. Financial analysts lambasted Sarepta executives for failing to disclose the fatality when the company announced a restructuring that includes stopping work on this limb-girdle program.