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The merger is intended to lower the cost of specialty medications and high-cost drug classes like GLP-1s.
MA pays 10% to 15% less than what the government pays in traditional Medicare, report says.
The success of this program speaks to the promise of AI as a tool to help doctors make diagnoses, one researcher says.
The system also cited "an unprecedented and unexpected surge" in charity care costs that now exceed $1M a day.
The wide variation in prices is not tied to quality, says a Trilliant Health report.
Efforts to apply agentic or generative AI will fall short without a unified data foundation, report finds.
This forecast comes as more employees use GLP-1s for obesity, receive cancer diagnoses and use mental health services.
The court says it lacks the ability to ‘second-guess’ CMS’ data collection and scoring methodology.
Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, can be asymptomatic, so patients are sent home with virtual cardiac monitors, says Sukrti Nagpal, deputy CMO of virtual care provider Doccla, and Yosef Safi Harb, founder and CEO of health monitoring company Happitech.
Overall customer satisfaction with Medicare Advantage plans is 623 (on a 1,000-point scale), down 29 points from a year ago.