More than 330 healthcare organizations signed letters this week urging the White House and Congress to extend a telehealth prescribing flexibility that was introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Highmark, an insurer in Pennsylvania, will now cover AppliedVR’s RelieVRx, a device for chronic low back pain, the companies announced Monday. This makes Highmark the first commercial insurer to ...

Welcome back to another episode of MedCity FemFwd, a podcast dedicated to discussing the breakthroughs and challenges in women’s health. In this episode, we’re joined by Carolee Lee, CEO and ...

To tighten oversight and minimize overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced a new rule in 2023 that revamped the agency’s approach ...

Sanofi is following several of its big pharma industry peers into radiopharmaceuticals, striking a deal for a clinical-stage therapy now in discussion for a regulatory submission as a treatment ...

The US has some of the worst maternal health outcomes among developed countries in the world, and while the maternal mortality rate is declining, wide disparities in poor maternal health outcomes ...

The issue of fraud, waste and abuse in healthcare spending is a major challenge for both payers and providers with some estimates that it accounts for as much as 10 percent of overall healthcare ...

Over 4 billion prescriptions were filled at local pharmacies across the US in 2019. Up against close to a billion outpatient visits and 26 million hospitalizations, pharmacy continues to be the ...

Healthcare stakeholders have differing opinions on the Biden-Harris Administration’s final rule for mental health coverage announced Monday. The 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity ...

Some of the most challenging yet most important processes for digital health startups to navigate are those related to reimbursement and coding. “People think, ‘Oh, I’ve got a code.

The medical technology investment space is a pretty small ecosystem, according to medtech venture capitalist Maria Berkman. “The number of venture funds that exclusively focus on medtech is ...

I am a caregiver. I’m also the CEO of a caregiving platform in America. My personal journey through caregiving opened my eyes to a national crisis hiding in plain sight. Soon, this crisis is ...