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FDA issues draft guidance for increasing racial and ethnic diversity in clinical trials

April 13, 2022 By Sean Whooley

The FDA today issued a new draft guidance outlining plans for increased diversity in clinical trials in the U.S. Expanding upon previous guidances for improving clinical trial diversity, this latest draft guidance — “Diversity Plans to Improve Enrollment of Participants from Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Subgroups in Clinical Trials” — recommends that sponsors of medical […]

Filed Under: Clinical Trials, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Healthcare Reform, News Well, Oncology, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: diversity, diversity and inclusion, FDA

HHS reports 63-fold increase in telehealth use during pandemic

December 3, 2021 By Danielle Kirsh

A new study from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found a 63-fold increase in Medicare telehealth use during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report analyzed Medicare fee-for-service data from 2019 and 2020 and highlighted that people in urban areas were more likely to seek and use telehealth services than rural residents. In addition, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health Technology, Healthcare Reform, Hospital Care Tagged With: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Senate confirms new CMS leader

May 25, 2021 By Sean Whooley

The U.S. Senate today confirmed President Joe Biden’s selection to lead CMS, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, with a 55-44 vote in favor. Brooks-LaSure will be the first Black woman to hold the position, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Twitter. She previously served in the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services during the […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Healthcare Reform, Legal News, Medicare Tagged With: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), CMS, Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS), Joe Biden

Xavier Becerra confirmed as HHS secretary

March 18, 2021 By Sean Whooley

The U.S. Senate narrowly voted to confirm Xavier Becerra as the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS) secretary today. Becerra received the nomination for the position from President Joe Biden in December 2020. Today, the Senate voted 50-49 in favor of Becerra, who will have to resign his seat as California’s attorney general. […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Healthcare Reform, Medicare, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS), HHS, Joe Biden, U.S. Senate

CMS delays shift to new payment model for chronic kidney disease treatments

March 12, 2021 By Chris Newmarker

CMS will now wait until Jan. 1, 2022 to start its Kidney Care Choices model, meant to shift the way the U.S. treats chronic kidney disease. The new payment model was supposed to start on Jan. 1 of this year, but health providers are still grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic. The new model could have […]

Filed Under: Dialysis, Featured, Healthcare Reform Tagged With: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), CMS, DaVita Inc., Fresenius Medical Care, Reimbursement

BREAKING: Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan joint healthcare venture is ending

January 4, 2021 By Sean Whooley

Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN), Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase announced today that they are ending their joint healthcare venture. The venture, launched in 2018 and known as “Haven,” aimed to bring the companies’ scale and complementary expertise to a long-term project which initially focused on technology solutions to help provide their U.S. employees and families with “high-quality and […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Healthcare Reform Tagged With: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, haven, Insurance, JP Morgan Chase

Medical Alley to collaborate with Accenture for Healthcare Transformation Initiative

November 18, 2019 By Sean Whooley

The Medical Alley Association and Accenture (NYSE:ACN) announced today that they are collaborating to lead phase one of the Healthcare Transformation Initiative campaign in an effort to redefine the course of healthcare. HTI-MA is an initiative with the goal of bringing together healthcare leaders to define realities of today’s healthcare system, identify modes of collaboration for […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Healthcare Reform Tagged With: Accenture, Medical Alley, Medical Alley Assn.

Study: Nearly $1 trillion wasted in U.S. healthcare annually

October 10, 2019 By Nancy Crotti

About 25% of U.S. healthcare spending — between $760 billion and $935 billion annually — is wasted, according to a new report published today. Researchers from Humana (NYSE:HUM) and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine searched medical literature from January 2012 to May 2019, looking for waste and savings opportunities in six domains of […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Healthcare Reform Tagged With: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Humana, Journal of the American Medical Assn. (JAMA), University of Pittsburgh

HHS proposes regulatory changes to promote value-based payment arrangements

October 9, 2019 By Chris Newmarker

UPDATED Oct. 9, 2019, with comments from press briefing in Minneapolis. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today proposed what it’s describing as a modernization of the physician self-referral law in order to promote value-based healthcare. The proposed regulatory changes, which are heading into a 75-day public comment period, say the physician self-referral […]

Filed Under: Digital Health, Featured, Health Information Technology, Healthcare Reform, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS), value-based healthcare

How can medical device companies thrive in the future?

September 20, 2019 By Chris Newmarker

Medical device data is becoming more important than the hardware itself, so medtech companies need to forge a partnership with consumer technology companies to stay innovative, according to a new report from Deloitte. The Deloitte report — called “Winning the Future of Medtech” — came out yesterday in advance of next week’s AdvaMed MedTech Conference […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Business/Financial News, Emerging Markets, Featured, Health Information Technology, Healthcare Reform, News Well, Software / IT Tagged With: Deloitte, Medtech Conference

Baxter throws $500m behind CMS push for dialysis innovation

July 30, 2019 By Chris Newmarker

Baxter (NYSE:BAX) officials apparently think their company can benefit from a Trump administration and CMS proposal to provide extra reimbursement for new and innovative dialysis equipment and supplies. Just days ago, CEO Joe Almeida told analysts in an earnings call that the company planned to invest $500 million to significantly increase production capacity and meet new […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Dialysis, Featured, Healthcare Reform Tagged With: Baxter, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Dialysis

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