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Reducing hospitalizations for frail elderly members is a major challenge for Medicare Advantage payers and providers. The key to avoiding any hospitalization is to detect and address a change in condition before it worsens. Ceresti Co-founder and CEO Dirk Soenksen talks about how his company is addressing these needs.

A Madrigal Pharmaceuticals drug for the fatty liver disease NASH has data from a pivotal clinical trial showing improvements in the organ. Based on those results, which sent Madrigal's stock price soaring more than 200%, the biotech is planning to seek what could become the first regulatory approval of a therapy for this metabolic disorder.

Nearly 40% of Americans struggle understanding their medical bills, a recent survey showed. But receiving more communication and support from providers and insurers would make bills less confusing, the respondents shared.

Without the help of genomics specialists, it is hard for health plans to manage genomic benefits efficiently and effectively. Now is the time for health plans to evaluate their genomic benefits management programs to find the right expert guidance and utilization management support.

Many (not all) physician-/scientist-CEOs have a tendency to revert to their area of comfort by using highly scientific terminology and concepts in ways that derail from the purpose of the presentation: articulating the business case in a finite amount of meeting time.

In 2022, the healthcare sector is on track to meet or exceed the more than 50.4 million patient records that were breached last year. As we look ahead to 2023, increasing cybersecurity budgets will be a necessity for healthcare organizations, despite their tight financial situations.

The PASTEUR Act, as amended, would provide $6 billion in federal funding over several years to give drugmakers incentive to develop and manufacture lifesaving medications for the small but growing number of infections highly resistant to antibiotics.

Healthcare workers at Stanford Medical Center and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital ratified a new agreement that increases their wages by 15% over the next three years. It's been good month for nurses unions in Northern California — Kaiser Permanente nurses recently ratified a new contract that increased wages by 22.5% over four years and included provisions for improved staffing.

Making predictions in unpredictable times can be dangerous. As long-held certainties – even ones as basic as person-to-person contact – have proven unreliable, perhaps we can only really trust the trends that bring us the flexibility to deal with the unexpected. Healthcare is the perfect bellwether. The sector has borne – and continues to bear – the brunt of this volatility. It has been severely limited by emergencies such as the pandemic, just as these events have driven surgin...

The contracts are with Steward Health Care Network, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Mass General Brigham and Boston Accountable Care Organization, which is part of Boston Medical Center. The healthcare organizations will be focused on reducing disparities in several areas, including high blood pressure and colorectal cancer screenings.