Medicare Advantage Enrollees Account for 25% of all Inpatient Hospital Days
Enrollment in Medicare Advantage has grown rapidly in recent years, with more than half of all eligible Medicare beneficiaries now...
UPMC flips operations from $313M loss to $349M gain in H1 2025
The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center (UPMC) continues to flip last year’s losses, reporting this week a $348.6 million operating...
Charting the Way Forward: New Efforts to Advance Electronic Health Information Sharing
In July 2025, the Trump administration announced a new effort (“Making Health Tech Great Again”) towards health data interchange (referred...
Medicare ACOs saved $2.4B in 2024, setting a new program record
Accountable care organizations saved Medicare $2.4 billion last year, according to new federal data. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
Better Prompting May Help Reduce AI Hallucinations, False Vaccine Claims Spread, and Industrial Solvent Promoted as Hidden Cancer Cure — The Monitor
VOLUME 29 August 28, 2025 Summary This volume highlights new research showing that certain prompting techniques can help reduce the...
How Millions Overcome Panic Attacks Every Day
If you have ever felt your chest tighten, your pulse pound in your ears, your breath catch, and your mind...
CVS agrees to $12M settlement with Massachusetts AG
CVS has agreed to a $12.25 million settlement with Massachusetts that resolves allegations that it charged members of its Medicaid...
Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions
The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion expanded Medicaid coverage to nearly all adults with incomes up to 138% of...
Are GLP-1 Drugs the Future of Weight Loss, or Just a Temporary Craze?
Weight loss has been a billion-dollar discussion all along. From new diets, so-called miracle teas, and “quick-fix” fitness fads that...
Google unveils AI health coach for Fitbit—Health Tech Roundup
Fitbit app gets AI upgrade with personal health coach As fitness trackers get artificial intelligence updates, Google developed an AI-powered...
