by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 11, 2024 | Payers, Tea Leaves
Wages have not been able to offset the rising costs of premiums for workers with employer-sponsored coverage over the last three decades, with Black and Hispanic employees hit particularly hard by this development, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. The...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 11, 2024 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves
The behavioral health funding landscape is ever-changing as America grapples with increasing demands for mental health and substance use disorder services. In her latest blog, Mindy Klowden, Third Horizon Strategies Managing Director for Behavioral Health, discusses...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 11, 2024 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
Congressional leaders have made another tentative deal to keep the government open and fund key health programs into March, but hospitals and other health care industries continue to await action on vital matters. Congress will act this week to advance a third stopgap...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 11, 2024 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Medically complex older patients who received care through a provider’s hospital-at-home program had “low” rates of mortality and readmission, according to recently published research data. The national review of thousands of Medicare fee-for-service Part A claims was...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 11, 2024 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
Federal health officials have proposed reclassification of marijuana after determining that it poses a lower public health risk than other controlled substances and offers possible medical benefits. The extensive scientific review illuminates the rationale...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 11, 2024 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Billing for patient messages sent to providers has risen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published in JAMA. Charging for e-visits, or asynchronous messages that require medical decision-making and take at least five minutes of clinician time...
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