treatment
publication date
Innovation
ViVE 2023 Opens on an Upbeat Note for Digital Health Companies
Recent CMS and CDC rulings offer hope that health systems will show more love for innovative treatments like digital therapeutics...
Technology
Pain Translation Technology Aims to Improve Emergency Care
The Rhode Island School of Design's Center for Complexity has developed a new tool that helps non-English patients accurately describe...
Pharma
Civica Rx to Supply California's $30 Insulin
CalRx will offer biosimilars for Glargine, Aspart, and Lispro, which are expected to be interchangeable with Lantus, Humalog, and Novolog...
Innovation
Mass General to Test VR Digital Therapeutics for Cancer Patients
The hospital is launching a pilot program in which 80 patients being treated for blood cancer will use a VR...
Technology
DEA Proposal Expands Telemedicine Prescriptions for Controlled Medications
The US Drug Enforcement Agency has proposed expanding the rules to allow providers to use telemedicine to prescribe controlled medications....
Innovation
California's 'Whole Person Care' Program Reduced Medicaid Costs for High-Risk Patients
A five-year pilot project launched by California's Medicaid program that addressed social determinants of health in high-risk, high-utilization patients reduced...
Payer
'We're Still Gonna Say No': Inside UnitedHealthcare's Effort to Deny Coverage to Chronically Ill Patient
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn't pay for the costly...
Innovation
Virginia Coalition to Use Telehealth, Digital Health to Address Care Gaps in Rural Appalachia
The Virginia Consortium to Advance Healthcare in Appalachia includes the UVA Center for Telehealth and several healthcare organizations, and will...
Technology
CMS Improves Medicaid Reimbursement for Digital Health Consults
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued guidance changing Medicaid and CHIP coverage for eConsults, or provider-to-provider specialty...
Innovation
RUSH, CVS Health Launch ACO Targeting Health Equity for Medicaid Members
The Chicago health system and CVS Health are partnering on an ACO that will be part of CMS' REACH direct...
Clinical Care
The Tests Are Vital. But Congress Decided that Regulation Is Not.
Money and lobbying help shield lab-developed tests, including prenatal screenings, from heightened federal scrutiny.
Pharma
FDA Rejects Fast-Track Approval of Eli Lilly's New Alzheimer's Drug
Regulators want more evidence that the pricey drug works.