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Will a hiccup in retail pharmacy vaccinations in some of the nation's biggest states mean an uptick this fall for physician offices?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
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CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/well/cvs-pharmacy-covid-vaccine-16-states.html
3 months ago
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4 months ago
Trump administration has restored 67 of +200 webpages deleted in January. More to come, feds say. âThe decision serves as a reminder that the government must follow the law, just like the rest of us.â
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Judge: Trump Must Restore Federal Health Websites
A federal judge finds federal agencies violated the law when they deleted âhundreds or even thousandsâ of pages about treating HIV and other medical conditions.
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/judge-trump-must-restore-missing-health-websites-and-data-2025a1000k1m
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One of the bigger questions being answered is the future of virtual care and the "#telehealth cliff." While some practices see
#telemedicine
volumes declining, the strategic path forward just got easier:
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Bridging strategic uncertainty as the âtelehealth cliffâ is replaced by firm ground
https://www.mgma.com/mgma-stat/bridging-strategic-uncertainty-as-the-telehealth-cliff-is-replaced-by-firm-ground
4 months ago
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Vought flip-flop: White House lifts OMB halt to NIH grant awards
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Trump administration reverses course, lifts pause on NIH grant awards
The order applies to the entirety of new and, possibly, ongoing research grant dollars that go to universities and academic medical centers.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/trump-administration-omb-blocks-nih-grant-awards/
4 months ago
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There are short- and long-term strategies that medical group practice leaders should consider to confront rising costs for labor, supplies, facilities, technology and more, all in our most recent
#MGMA
Stat data story:
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Confronting cost pressures in your medical practice: Short- and long-term strategies
https://www.mgma.com/mgma-stat/confronting-cost-pressures-in-your-medical-practice-short-and-long-term-strategies
4 months ago
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How health systems are reshaping their strategies in the face of federal policy uncertainty
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How health systems are reshaping their strategies in the face of federal policy uncertainty
Hospitals, health systems and physician practices are shifting their operational and financial strategies in the face of rapidly changing federal regulations. | In the face of federal policy uncertain...
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/how-providers-are-reshaping-their-strategies-face-policy-uncertainty
4 months ago
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CMS deletes Medicare Advantage vision statement, signaling another shift from health equity
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CMS deletes Medicare Advantage vision statement, signaling another shift from health equity
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wiped away the agencyâs stated intentions for the future of Medicare Advantage (MA), underlining new uncertainty for the future of health-rela | The ...
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/cms-deletes-medicare-advantage-vision-statement-signaling-another-shift-health-equity
9 months ago
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Such a great chat with
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of
@directtrust.bsky.social
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#himss25
RE:
#FHIR
on Direct, what we were seeing at HIMSS Global and the evolution of the
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space â oh, and thanking her for being a longtime
#MGMA
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MGMA | A conversation with DirectTrustâs Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser at HIMSS25
The discussion with Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser at the 2025 HIMSS Global Conference covers the evolution of Direct messaging to incorporate FHIR, the benefits for under-resourced organizations, the rol...
https://www.mgma.com/articles/the-future-of-secure-health-communication
9 months ago
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The New York Times
9 months ago
Novo Nordisk will cut the price of its weight loss medication Wegovy to $499 per month for certain patients who pay using their own money instead of going through insurance, the drug maker said on Wednesday.
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Weight Loss Drug Will Be Offered for $499 a Month for Some Patients
Some commercially insured patients stand to save $150 per month on Wegovy, a popular obesity medication. Patients on Medicare and Medicaid are not eligible.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/health/wegovy-price-weight-loss-drugs.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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Are you leading your AI or is AI leading you? AI in Healthcare Forum explores process, governance and learning from friction and failure at
#himss25
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www.mgma.com/articles/are...
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MGMA | Are you leading your AI or is AI leading you?
The AI in Healthcare Forum at HIMSS 2025 highlighted the importance of strategic governance, cultural alignment, and iterative learning in AI adoption. Panelists discussed AI's potential to improve ef...
https://www.mgma.com/articles/are-you-leading-your-ai-or-is-ai-leading-you
9 months ago
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Highlights from the the early sessions of
#himss25
Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum - Breaking the ransomware attack chain and accelerating incident response:
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MGMA | Breaking the ransomware attack chain and accelerating incident response
The Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum at HIMSS 2025 highlighted the increasing threat of ransomware attacks and the importance of adopting an adversarial mindset to understand and counter these threats. ...
https://www.mgma.com/articles/breaking-the-ransomware-chain-and-accelerating-incident-response
9 months ago
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With
#HIMSS25
you can't even escape AI before you get there: Conference app has AI-enabled suggestions for sessions you should see, people you should connect with.
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How will federal health agencies fare amid DOGE worker purge?
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Fired HHS civil servants, veterans fear for the future of US healthcare
This month, the federal government fired thousands of probationary federal workers spanning critical health agencies and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), taking a chainsaw to the workforce | T...
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/fired-hhs-civil-servants-veterans-fear-future-us-healthcare
9 months ago
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Healthcare CFOs anticipate minimal financial gains in 2025 due to high labor costs, stagnant payer rates
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Labor Costs and Payer Rates Are Still Squeezing Providersâ Margins - MedCity News
New research found that most healthcare CFOs anticipate minimal financial gains this year due to high labor costs and insufficient payer rates. While providers are leveraging more data to improve fina...
https://medcitynews.com/2025/02/labor-healthcare-payer-insurance/
9 months ago
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Eli Lilly unveils plan for four U.S. "mega-sites"
www.axios.com/2025/02/26/l...
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Eli Lilly unveils plan for four U.S. "mega-sites"
In addition to "reshoring" the production of key ingredients used to make some of their drugs, Lilly said it will create 3,000 jobs at the sites.
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/26/lilly-plan-new-manufacturing-sites
9 months ago
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PBM legislation gets fresh push at House hearing
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PBM legislation gets fresh push at House hearing
Congress came within inches of enacting major pharmacy benefit manager restrictions in December. Supporters see an opportunity to try again.
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/politics-policy/pbm-legislation-bill-house-hearing
9 months ago
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MGMA urges Congress to establish permanent or long-term access to telehealth
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MGMA urges Congress to establish permanent or long-term access to telehealth (February 24, 2025)
This letter, dated February 24, 2025, is addressed to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffr...
https://www.mgma.com/advocacy-letters/february-24-2025-mgma-urges-congress-to-establish-permanent-or-long-term-access-to-telehealth
9 months ago
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Healthcare was most breached sector in 2024, accounting for 23% of data breaches handled by Kroll
www.healthcaredive.com/news/healthc...
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Healthcare was most breached sector in 2024: report
Last year, the healthcare industry accounted for 23% of data breaches handled by financial and risk advisory firm Kroll, compared with 18% in 2023.
https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/healthcare-most-data-breaches-kroll-2024/740379/
9 months ago
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A full breakdown of specific Medicare telehealth policies and their dates for reverting back to pre-PHE status is available to MGMA members here:
www.mgma.com/federal-poli...
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Status of Medicare Telehealth Waivers
An overview of flexibilities instituted by HHS that waived many of the generally applicable rules governing Medicare telehealth services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://www.mgma.com/federal-policy-resources/status-of-medicare-telehealth-waivers
9 months ago
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Baxterâs Asheville site now fully operational after damage from Helene
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Baxterâs Asheville site now fully operational after damage from Helene
Hurricane Helene devastated the North Carolina manufacturing site, causing a nationwide shortage of IV solutions.
https://healthexec.com/topics/healthcare-management/healthcare-logistics/baxters-asheville-fully-operational-after-hurricane-helene
9 months ago
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Bob Herman
9 months ago
NEW: Medicare Advantage beneficiaries who are suing UnitedHealth Group over allegedly wrongful denials of care that were based on artificial intelligence scored a victory Thursday, as a judge ruled their case could move forward. Could open up discovery.
www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/l...
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Judge rules lawsuit over UnitedHealthâs AI care denials can move forward
Medicare Advantage beneficiaries who are suing UnitedHealth Group over allegedly wrongful denials of care that were based on artificial intelligence scored a victory Thursday.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/lawsuit-unitedhealth-artificial-intelligence-care-denials-medicare-advantage-moves-forward/
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Chris Geidner
10 months ago
BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice.
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Judge last night temporarily blocked NIH indirect cost cuts in the lawsuit from AAMC and teaching hospitals. This applies US-wide
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AAMCOrd021025
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25518135-aamcord021025/
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Should I dust off my TikTok account to post about this?
add a skeleton here at some point
10 months ago
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Q&A: How institutions have responded to the gender-affirming care executive order, one week later
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Q&A: How institutions have responded to the gender-affirming care executive order, one week later
Yale assistant professor of pediatrics Meredithe McNamara talks with STAT about how institutions have responded to Trump's executive order on gender-affirming care, one week later.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/05/assessing-impact-trump-executive-order-gender-affirming-care-under-19
10 months ago
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MGMA members have access to a new memorandum on increased immigration enforcement and implications for medical groups:
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ICE Enforcement Implications for Medical Groups
The memorandum, dated January 30, 2025, addresses the heightened immigration enforcement under the Trump Administration and its impact on medical group practices. It provides practical steps for medic...
https://www.mgma.com/federal-policy-resources/increased-immigration-enforcement-implications-for-medical-groups
10 months ago
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I seem to remember there being a previously existing apparatus for protecting the integrity of HHS programs.
add a skeleton here at some point
10 months ago
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Trump tariffs may play havoc with health prices, supply chains
www.axios.com/2025/02/05/t...
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Trump tariffs may play havoc with health prices, supply chains
Tariffs risk upending a health network that buckled during the pandemic and relies on components sourced from around the world.
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/05/tariffs-health-supply-chain-woes-prices
10 months ago
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Trump administration indefinitely suspends meetings of HHS' health IT advisory committee
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Trump administration indefinitely suspends meetings of HHS' health IT advisory committee
The Trump administration indefinitely canceled meetings of the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC), an advisory panel that helps the federal government establish rules and stan | ...
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/trump-administration-indefinitely-suspends-meetings-hhs-health-it-advisory-committee
10 months ago
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It was wild about a decade ago when people started confusing "MGMA" and "MAGA," but time is a flat circle, so now we get to compete with "Make the Gulf Mexican Again," apparently. I'm going to go listen to some K-pop if you need me.
10 months ago
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Eric Topol
10 months ago
An update with latest data available for graph of life expectancy vs health care expenditures per capita for 20 countries and one outlier.
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Dave Levitan
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From inside HHS, a court order sent around this morning telling agencies they canât pause spending:
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The Upshot
10 months ago
The purges have removed information about vaccines, veteransâ care, hate crimes and scientific research, among many other topics.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
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Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday
Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trumpâs orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and âgender ideology.â
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/upshot/trump-government-websites-missing-pages.html
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Trump order aims to end federal support for gender transitions for those under 19
apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump order aims to end federal support for gender transitions for those under 19
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at cutting federal support for gender transitions for people under age 19.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-transgender-transition-executive-order-301e4130233b411311978f66f455f1c4
10 months ago
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10 months ago
FDA approves Ozempic to reduce chronic kidney disease in patients with diabetes, Novo Nordisk says (the FDA doesn't appear to have posted a press release since Jan. 17 as HHS communications remain paused)
www.cnn.com/2025/01/28/h...
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FDA approves Ozempic to reduce risks from chronic kidney disease in diabetes patients | CNN
Ozempic, the blockbuster GLP-1 drug that was originally approved to treat type 2 diabetes, has now also been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to reduce certain risks associated with chr...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/28/health/ozempic-kidney-disease-fda-approval
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How many 2025 prediction pieces accurately called, "Community health centers, FQHCs, WIC enrollees and Medicaid beneficiaries being told to justify continued federal dollars"? I can only think of one.
10 months ago
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Just thinking that it was about 49 weeks ago that the Change Healthcare outage began and payments to providers ground to a halt.
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Federal grant freeze reaches community health centers:
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
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The big news since last night: "Temporary pause" on federal financial aid worries many on congressional power of the purse, but also impacts for programs such as SNAP, Medicaid, etc.:
www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/t...
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Trump admin orders 'temporary pause' on most federal financial assistance
The Trump administration has ordered a âtemporary pauseâ on federal financial assistance that will go into effect at 5:00 p.m. | Chief among the questions raised by Monday's ambiguous memo are whether...
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/trump-admin-orders-temporary-pause-most-federal-financial-assistance
10 months ago
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10 months ago
BREAKING: US health agency employees are now banned from nearly all travel and certain agencies and programs have been ordered to stop issuing new contracts and grants until further notice.
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Travel, grant and funding cuts âstiflingâ US health agencies in new Trump era
Halts to external communications, publishing reports and reviewing and approving research a âdramatic shiftâ
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/24/us-health-agencies-funding-cuts-trump
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Of the few bad things about BlueSky, the one that stands out the most is the butterfly logo kind of looks like an X.
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Cyberattacks are as prevalent as ever for healthcare organizations â but the flurry of activity in 2024 prompted most medical practice leaders to beef up staff training around cybersecurity and has most of them feeling somewhat confident in their ability to recover quickly:
www.mgma.com/stat-012125
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Medical practice leaders attuned to cyberattacks, recovery after a rocky 2024
Cyber threats against medical practices have significantly increased, prompting leaders to focus on robust response and recovery strategies beyond prevention. With the highest average cost per data br...
https://www.mgma.com/stat-012125
10 months ago
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STAT
10 months ago
Researchers worry that NIH funding and scientific updates to the public could be affected
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Trump administrationâs abrupt cancellation of scientific meetings prompts confusion, concern
A flurry of scientific gatherings and panels across federal science agencies were canceled on Wednesday, at a time of heightened sensitivity about how the
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The fourth week in January is National Medical Group Practice Week. Watch for more on this from MGMA next week; to help connect your practices and team members to this celebration, we offer some ideas for thoughtful engagement:
www.mgma.com/articles/cel...
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MGMA | Celebrating National Medical Group Practice Week: Engaging ideas for leaders
Celebrate National Medical Group Practice Week by engaging in thoughtful activities that inspire your team, connect with the community, and reinforce a commitment to high-quality, compassionate care. ...
https://www.mgma.com/articles/celebrating-national-medical-group-practice-week
10 months ago
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Former MGMA President and CEO Susan Turney, MD, appointed to Alliance for Health Policy Board of Directors -
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The Alliance for Health Policy Announces New Board of Directors Leadership | Alliance for Health Policy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Alliance for Health Policy today released a new insights report on rare disease policy as part of a program designed to gather policy experts and inform future educational p...
https://www.allhealthpolicy.org/news/the-alliance-for-health-policy-announces-new-board-of-directors-leadership
10 months ago
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What's FAIR in a climate where DEI is demonized? A focus on fairness, access, inclusion, and representation -
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What Comes After DEI
While backlash to DEI has challenged how many companies and practitioners approach creating more equitable workplaces, fewer have considered whether DEI work itself has room to improve. A new framewor...
https://hbr.org/2025/01/what-comes-after-dei?ab=HP-hero-latest-text-1
10 months ago
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Americans mixed on potential Trump healthcare priorities: KFF poll
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Americans mixed on potential Trump healthcare priorities: KFF poll
About half of respondents said the nation should spend more on Medicaid and Medicare â a potential challenge for the Trump administration looking to cut costs.
https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/americans-mixed-trump-healthcare-agenda-medicare-medicaid-aca-kff/737736/
10 months ago
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Hospital, PE-affiliated primary care docs charge higher prices than independents, study finds
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Hospital, PE-affiliated primary care docs charge higher prices than independents, study finds
Negotiated professional fees are lower among primary care physicians practicing in independent settings than for those who are affiliated with hospitals or private equity, according to a recent stu | ...
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/hospital-pe-affiliated-primary-care-docs-charge-higher-prices-independents-study-finds?utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_campaign=HC-NL-FierceHealthcare&oly_enc_id=6566A2002334F0Z
10 months ago
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New article for
#MaternalHealth
Awareness Day -- Advancing equitable pregnancy care amid systemic barriers:
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MGMA | Advancing equitable pregnancy care amid systemic barriers
Discover the pressing issues and systemic barriers affecting maternal healthcare in the United States. This comprehensive analysis highlights the alarming maternal mortality rates, the impact of rural...
https://www.mgma.com/articles/advancing-equitable-pregnancy-care-amid-systemic-barriers
10 months ago
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Providers to target efficiency, supply chain resilience in 2025
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Providers to target efficiency, supply chain resilience in 2025
Health systems will work to expand their supply chains and ink nontraditional partnerships in 2025, while trimming excessive AI programs and nonclinical staff.
https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/providers-target-efficiency-supply-chain-resilience-2025/737387/
10 months ago
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