HEALTHCARE: Business News

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House Democrats want CMS to better monitor Medicare Advantage plans’ use of AI tools to ensure they don’t allow an unusually high level of restrictive and repeated denials.


Kaiser Permanente continues to rebound from a rough 2022 and pulled in $239 million in net income in Q3. That marks a dramatic turnaround from the $1.5 billion net loss the integrated system had seen a year prior.

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And … during the Milken Institute’s Future of Health Summit Monday, former HHS Secretary Alex Azar and current department chief Xavier Becerra sparred over the Biden administration’s approach to negotiating Medicare drug prices.

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Finally, family physicians utilizing value-based payment (VBP) models reported burnout relief in a study from EHR company Elation Health and the American Academy of Family Physicians. Burnout among providers decreased once practices passed a threshold of 75% financial investment in VBP models.

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