Thu.Jun 05, 2025

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Budget Reconciliation Bill Could Add Almost 11 Million Uninsured, CBO Says

Forbes Healthcare

The House Republican budget reconciliation legislation, dubbed “the big, beautiful bill,” could lead to nearly 11 million people losing health insurance through 2034.

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Health tech CEO convicted in $1B Medicare fraud scheme; a new vision for health care focuses on age-related diseases; popular TikTok pushes IBD misinformation – Morning Medical Update

Medical Economics

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Nearly 11M would become uninsured under GOP reconciliation bill: CBO

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The analysis from the nonpartisan budget scorekeeper found 7.8 million would lose coverage due to Medicaid cuts.

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Review your practice’s financial performance

Practice Index

In a time of uncertain financial pressure, did you know you can easily establish how your practice is performing and if there are opportunities to improve your financial sustainability? Benchmarking Manager in the Practice Index HUB has been updated following the last week’s release of the 2023/24 data, allowing you to see a snapshot of your practice’s financial performance in just a few clicks.

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How to Start Virtual Care the Right Way: A Proven Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond

Speaker: Dr. Christine Gall, DrPH, MS, BSN, RN

The promise of virtual care is no longer theoretical and is now a critical solution to many of healthcare’s most urgent challenges. Yet many healthcare leaders remain unsure how to build a business case for investment and launching the right program at the right time can be the difference between value and failure. For organizations seeking a financially sound, clinically effective entry point, Virtual Patient Observation (VPO) offers a compelling case to lead with.

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Charity care policies can vary wildly between hospitals: report

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

A new report from the Lown Institute finds that variability in policies means two nearly identical patients can receive wildly different bills — sometimes within a few blocks of one another.

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State exchange directors urge Senate to reconsider GOP megabill, citing harm to ACA enrollees

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Seventeen states sent the letter to Senate leadership this week outlining how Republican’s reconciliation legislation will kick millions off coverage, sicken risk pools and trample on state autonomy.

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How behavior patterns drive or derail your practice

Medical Economics

Discover how behavior impacts your medical practice outcomes and learn actionable strategies to enhance team performance and drive success.

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The Spirit for Eating Healthier Is Willing, But the Cost of Doing So “Outweighs” the Will – Listening to Escoffier

Health Populi

It’s been a full week’s coverage on food-as-medicine and food as a driver of health in America this week on the Health Populi blog. Today we turn to the chefs at Escoffier who know food, teach food, and now offer programs in holistic nutrition and wellness through the lens of culinary arts. With that lens, Escoffier recently published a report on the future of healthy eating , which will round out this week’s Health Populi landscape on food and health.

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Healthcare organizations could be unprepared to adopt generative AI: survey

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Only 18% of respondents knew about formal policies at their firms overseeing the use of the technology, while just 20% said staff were required to undergo structured training, according to Wolters Kluwer.

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Cancer screenings could get more support through Medicare under new bill in congress

Medical Economics

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Words — Your Nursing Career Barometer

Minority Nurse

No matter where you are in your nursing career, the words you use are powerful. How you talk to your patients and colleagues says a lot about you, and how you talk about your work and your life says even more. You also need to consider how you talk to yourself. Are you choosing empowering, positive words that indicate your passion, expertise, and professionalism?

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1 in 5 health care leaders say cyberattacks have already impacted patient care

Medical Economics

Most health care leaders now believe a deadly incident is inevitable within five years, raising alarms about outdated systems, staffing shortages and limited cybersecurity preparedness across the industry.

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Pride Month – Is it still relevant and why should practices take part?

Practice Index

Pride Month, celebrated every June, commemorates the Stonewall Uprising in 1969, a pivotal moment in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights. In the early hours of 28 th June 1969, New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village. While police raids on gay establishments were common at the time, the patrons at Stonewall fought back, sparking a series of spontaneous and violent demonstrations that lasted for six days.

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The MAHA Movement Already Has An Army. It Just Needs To Mobilize It.

Forbes Healthcare

Health insurance brokers can help HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy and CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz effectuate their vision of a healthier America.

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Can We Give the New FDA Leadership a Chance

Sensible Medicine

When Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad became leaders at FDA, many pundits worried they would damage public health. Both had “anti-vax” tendencies, went the narrative. Adam and I knew that was not true. Well, yesterday, FDA published a video on X and YouTube where they updated the public on SARS-CoV2 vaccine status. Sensible Medicine remains independent and free of industry ads because of your generosity.

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New Report Calls For Investment Shift In Women’s Health

Forbes Healthcare

Closing the womens health funding gap unlocks better care, stronger economies, & longer, healthier lives for all, according to the 2025 State of Womens Health report.

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8 best ways to keep your practice safe

Physicians Practice

Health care faces unprecedented challenges from cyberattacks, measles outbreaks, and workplace violence, highlighting the need for continuous safety measures.

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Why Medicaid Needs A Text Message Exemption Now

Forbes Healthcare

The Federal Communication Commission oversees the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and should implement broad Medicaid exemptions for text messaging.

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Guilty plea illuminates the proper use of the Open Payments Program

Physicians Practice

The Open Payments Program reveals critical compliance issues in healthcare, highlighting recent legal cases and the importance of accurate financial reporting.

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MedTech Innovator names 65 startups to 2025 Accelerator Cohort

Medical Economics

The selected startups represent the top 4% of nearly 1,500 applicants from around the globe and will participate in MTIs flagship four-month program focused on de-risking innovation and fast-tracking market access in the U.S.

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Unveiling the Hidden Costs of Outdated Medical Billing Systems

CollaborateMD

Outdated medical billing systems and processes can be a financial black hole for medical practices. Hidden costs like administrative strain, patient payment challenges, ineffective collections, and high denial rates quietly erode revenue and are often underestimated or overlooked entirely. In this blog, well explore common hidden costs associated with outdated medical billing systems and discuss how solutions like CollaborateMD can help revenue cycle managers claim lost dollars and streamline th

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MAHA Report reaction: Addressing health dangers of smoking and alcohol use

Medical Economics

MAHA Report reaction: Addressing health dangers of smoking and alcohol use

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Questions to Ask at Your Doctors Appointment

Usherk Khan

Appointments with your doctor are a fact of life, and you should be getting checked up regularly. Getting the most out of your time with the doctor is important so that you can stay healthy and understand what is going on in your body. Usher Khan is a medical assistant and registered orthopedic tech.

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An advantageous time for preferred stocks

Medical Economics

Like common stocks, preferred stocks represent minute slices of company ownership, as theyre a form of equity. But like bonds, theyre a fixed-income security that pays yield, in the form of dividends.

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Primary care news round-up (29th May to 4th June 2025)

Practice Index

Patients report improvements in practice contact Patients in England have reported improvements in contacting practices, according to new data. Some 72% now say that making contact is easy compared with 60% in July last year, according to Office for National Statistics data. NHS England welcomed the data, claiming the improvements are the result of the introduction of digital phone systems.

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MAHA Report reaction: Ultraprocessed foods — ‘something inherently different’ than natural foods

Medical Economics

A cardiologist, chef and food researcher discusses a new major analysis of American health and nutrition.

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Connect Care Transparent Lockdown - June 9, 2025 10:00-00:40 June 12, 2025

Connect Care Bytes Blog

Connect Care anticipates a scheduled brief pause (up to 5-minutes) in the early hours of June 12, 2025, for application updates (post with details important for prescribers to come). Connect Care uses a "transparent lockdown" process during updates to help prepare the system and reduce the upgrade workload, resulting in a shortened update window. The transparent lockdown period for the upcoming update is from Monday, June 9, 2025 at 10:00 to Thursday, June 12, 2025 at 00:40.

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MAHA Report reaction: Blaming farmers for bad foods, part 1

Medical Economics

A cardiologist, chef and food researcher discusses a new major analysis of American health and nutrition.

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