Health Net’s “Review to Renew” campaign will leverage print and digital media — such as mail, interactive voice response calls, text messages, social media, digital advertisements and posters — to make Medi-Cal members aware of the end of the continuous enrollment requirement and provide them with resources to retain coverage.

Despite challenging financial market conditions, clinical-stage Structure Therapeutics was able to upsize its IPO. Much of the new cash will support its lead program, an oral small molecule that could weigh in on the diabetes and obesity indications currently dominated by blockbuster injectable medicines.

The pandemic taught hospitals that neglecting supply chain data has a cost in the form of stock outs and increased costs, but while these concerns are fading, supply chain challenges are not. As a result, hospitals that do not act now risk jeopardizing their own financial future.

Even with innovative and dependable technology, remember that people are your organization’s most important asset. Trust them, protect them, and let them shine. Healthcare will be better for it.

The U.S. healthcare system spent $60 billion on administrative tasks last year, which is about $18 billion more than it spent in 2021, according to a new report. There are a couple reasons for this — the workforce shortage and Americans’ increased utilization of healthcare services.

Telehealth implementation should be a joint responsibility of IT, administration, and providers. Otherwise, a lack of teamwork between departments leads to siloing and lots of passing the telemedicine “hot potato” among those who don’t have all the information.

More than 90% of nurses in Michigan believe that understaffing is negatively affecting the quality of care they’re able to provide, according to a new report. The percentage of respondents who know of a patient death being caused by nurses being assigned too many patients nearly doubled in the past seven years — from 22% in 2016 to 42% in 2023.

There were more than 35 million prior authorization requests submitted to MA plans in 2021, and 2 million were denied, according to KFF. Of those denied, just 11% were appealed. However, most of those appeals led to the denial being overturned.

New York healthcare startups received $3.9 billion of funding in 2022, compared to $9 billion in 2021, according to a new DHNY report. Biotech startups represented 22% of total funding in 2022, a stark difference from women’s health only representing 2%.

Karuna Therapeutics has licensed two small molecules that shuttering Goldfinch Bio had developed for kidney disorders. These compounds target a pathway that could also treat neurological disorders, giving clinical-stage Karuna the opportunity to compete against a drug candidate from Boehringer Ingelheim.

Two Congresspeople recently introduced a bill seeking to terminate the VA’s Oracle Cerner EHR rollout. The legislation said that the project is too flawed and costly to carry on — the lawmakers called for VA facilities to revert back to the department’s internally developed EHR.

Drs. Carolyn Bertozzi, Barry Sharpless, and Morten Meldal shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for greatly simplifying the synthesis of complicated molecules. Dr. Bertozzi’s protégé writes why her research is so important.

The FDA approved GSK drug Jesduvroq for treating anemia in patients with chronic kidney disease. The once-daily pill is the first oral medicine to pass FDA muster in this indication, giving patients a more convenient alternative to injectable anemia therapies.

Protectionism against (and fear of) telehealth on display from companies like Walmart and states like Alabama threaten the only effective and scalable solution to America’s opioid epidemic.

GoodRx failed to notify users that it sold their personal health information to Google, Facebook and other tech companies, the FTC claimed. The agency filed an order that prohibits GoodRx from sharing its users’ data with third parties for advertising purposes and requires the company to pay a $1.5 million penalty.

Under the proposed new rule, employers are no longer able to be exempt from offering coverage for contraception due to moral convictions, but religious exemptions still remain. It’s an important move from the government during the reproductive health crisis, one advocate said.

Instead of leaning on the arbitrary and subjective nature of prominent, perceived prestige-focused industry rankings, health systems must shift to a data-driven and mathematically sound approach to determining and benchmarking quality.

Russian hacker group Killnet has claimed responsibility for a string of recent cyberattacks that took more than a dozen hospital websites offline across the U.S. — including the websites for Cedars-Sinai, Michigan Medicine, and UPMC. The group has been active for at least a year and is known to target countries that support and/or send resources to Ukraine.

Taysha Gene Therapies has encouraging data from an open-label, Phase 1/2 study in the rare disease giant axonal neuropathy. It might not be enough. The FDA recommended the biotech conduct a randomized and placebo-controlled study—a challenge in any ultra-rare disease.

Security threats are not going away any time soon. In fact, they are on the rise and likely will be for years to come. Here are three ways to solve the most pressing problems.