The Alliance of Community Health Plans formed a patient advisory council — including those with diabetes, caregivers and community advocates — to guide research. The council strives to include patient perspectives in chronic disease research and initiatives, a July 9…
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Picture the payer workflows that consume the most time: prior authorization, coverage determination, payer-to-payer exchange, denial appeals. Long-running, multi-party, regulated. Now picture autonomous agents handling that work, reliably and under full audit, across payer and provider systems. Almost no one…
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Healthcare and life sciences organizations are moving quickly to develop AI applications for diagnostics, genomics and digital health. But many teams face practical challenges as projects scale, including limited access to compute resources, cloud latency and data privacy requirements that…
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Wellpoint D.C., Elevance Health’s Medicaid subsidiary in the District of Columbia, will exit the district’s Medicaid managed care program effective Aug. 1. Enrollees currently with Wellpoint, formerly Amerigroup D.C., will be automatically reassigned to AmeriHealth Caritas starting Aug. 1, according…
Support for expanding Medicare into a government-run health plan for everyone swings by nearly 20 percentage points depending on how the idea is described to voters, according to new polling that arrives as the ACA marketplace is deteriorating and employer…
Nursing shortages, bedside turnover and rising labor costs are forcing health systems to do more with less. Labor now accounts for nearly 60 percent of the average hospital’s expenses and replacing a staff nurse costs roughly $60,000. Every hour clinicians…
Aug 7, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Kassaundra McKnight-Young, CNIO Healthcare Industry Principal, Zebra Technologies
- Gregory Carras, Regional Product Manager, Data Capture Solutions, Zebra Technologies
- Jennifer Gene, VP, Healthcare and Public Sector Sales, Levata
Vermont Republican Gov. Phil Scott signed an executive order July 8 to kick off a state initiative focused on healthcare affordability. The order prompts state agencies to act within their existing authority and develop statutory reform recommendations for the 2027…
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nevada tapped Manan Shah to serve as president of commercial health plans. Mr. Shah will focus on growth, affordability and whole-health solutions for the commercial business, according to a July 9 news release…
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S.¹ and one of the most common drivers of hospital readmission. One in five hospitalizations for COPD results in a return visit² — and for patients with…
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Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., sent a letter June 26 to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth urging the Defense Department to act on a report regarding Tricare’s autism program. A September National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine…