Plus, breaking down Biden's health priorities

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Mar 16, 2024

UnitedHealth: Change's Pharmacy Network is back online


Eli Lilly partners with Amazon Pharmacy for home delivery of its weight loss, diabetes and migraine drugs


Breaking down Biden's $7.3T proposed budget for 2025: Here are his top health priorities


HIMSS24: Microsoft, 16 health systems to operationalize AI under new partner network


Biden signs $460B spending bill with doc pay bump, delayed DSH cuts and community health funding - Paige Minemyer

 

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UnitedHealth: Change's Pharmacy Network is back online

Change Healthcare's Pharmacy Network is officially back online, according to the latest update from UnitedHealth Group.
 

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Eli Lilly partners with Amazon Pharmacy for home delivery of its weight loss, diabetes and migraine drugs

Eli Lilly is partnering with Amazon's pharmacy unit to offer home delivery for diabetes, migraine and obesity medications, including GLP-1 weight loss drug Zepbound.

Breaking down Biden's $7.3T proposed budget for 2025: Here are his top health priorities

Drug price negotiations and Medicare solvency were just two areas HHS officials hit upon while unveiling President Biden's 2025 fiscal year proposed budget.

HIMSS24: Microsoft, 16 health systems to operationalize AI under new partner network

The latest provider-tech AI collaboration will build on the groundwork of members' existing AI partnership, the Coalition for Health AI.

Biden signs $460B spending bill with doc pay bump, delayed DSH cuts and community health funding

The Senate cleared on Friday a $460 billion spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown. The package of six appropriation bills includes several key lobbying focuses for providers but excludes other hot-button topics like potential pharmacy benefit manager and ghost network regulations "until December or longer."

Change Healthcare cyberattack isn't threatening major for-profit systems' bottom lines, execs say

Senior leadership at HCA Healthcare, Tenet Healthcare and Universal Health Systems say their organizations are shielded from the liquidity and administrative issues that are plaguing providers across the country.

Industry Voices—A new reimbursement model is needed to ensure the future of community pharmacy

The current environment of decreasing reimbursement and increasing drug costs is not sustainable for either chain or independent pharmacies.

Momentum behind hospital-at-home continues to grow, but proponents say Congress needs to act to fuel more investment

LAS VEGAS—The American Medical Association and the American Telemedicine Association joined major health systems like Geisinger and Mass General Brigham along with companies like Best Buy Health and DispatchHealth to call for congressional support for the future of home-based care.

ViVE 2024: How Elevance Health is aiming to make its data insights actionable for providers

LOS ANGELES—Payers have access to a wealth of data, but the challenge now becomes making those data usable and useful for providers in a way that does not disrupt their workflows and interactions with patients.

HIMSS24: How Epic is building out AI, ambient technology for clinicians

ORLANDO, Florida—AI technology in healthcare is rapidly evolving, and the potential for generative AI to free up time to focus more on patients is getting clinicians excited about technology, said Jacqueline Gerhart, M.D., Epic clinician and vice president of clinical informatics.
 
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'Podnosis': A deep dive into health plan and health system earnings

In this week’s episode of "Podnosis," you'll hear from two journalists from the Fierce Healthcare team: Paige Minemyer, senior editor of Fierce Health Payer, and Dave Muoio, a staff writer for Fierce Healthcare. Together, they'll dive into the most recent earnings updates from the largest health plans and health systems, sharing their key insights and the trends they've identified. 
 

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This white paper looks at how generative AI is changing the healthcare industry and where generative AI can have a big impact on a healthcare company’s business. Insights are shared on why data management and architecture are the essential first steps all healthcare organizations must take to build and deploy scalable and responsible generative AI solutions that produce true business value.

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Low-value musculoskeletal care is costing patients, employers and health plans over $90 billion per year—more than $10 million every hour. Learn how to put an end to the waste.
 

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