What You Should Know:
- Recent changes to U.S. trade policy under the Trump Administration, including a new baseline tariff on imports, are sending ripples through the healthcare industry, creating significant uncertainty and cost pressures.
- According to recent analysis by Premier Inc., while a temporary pause on reciprocal tariffs (excluding China) is in effect until early July, the new landscape presents immediate challenges.
Trump Administration Tariffs
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Color Health + MSK Direct to Tackle Employer Cancer Care
What You Should Know:
- Color, a healthcare technology company, has teamed up with MSK Direct from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK).
- The collaboration aims to provide employers, unions, and health plans with comprehensive cancer care offerings, making MSK's world-renowned expertise and support accessible to employees and members regardless of their location.
Addressing Fragmentation and Barriers in Cancer Care
Access to top-tier healthcare,
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ATA Action Launches Virtual Foodcare Coalition to Integrate Nutrition with Virtual Care
What You Should Know:
- ATA Action, the advocacy arm of the American Telemedicine Association launches its new Virtual Foodcare Coalition.
- The advocacy group is dedicated to promoting policies that integrate virtual care with food and nutritional support to improve health outcomes, prevent disease, and manage chronic conditions.
Virtual Foodcare Coalition Overview & Founding Members
The Virtual Foodcare Coalition aims to establish healthy, nutritious
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The Imperative of Health Equity: Why Data and Intention Matter
As the daughter of Nigerian immigrants who are both social workers, I observed how dedicated they were to their careers of service. Following in their footsteps, I am privileged to serve patients and families as a physician, and I have also become all too familiar with the undeniable truth about the impact of health inequities on specific populations.
The health care industry has made strides in addressing health inequities – but there is plenty of work to be done.
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Doctors and Debt: Why Short Visits Create Long-Term Challenges
Doctors aren’t just healers—they’re involuntary lenders. Every time a physician treats a patient, they’re fronting the cost of care and hoping to get reimbursed. If the insurer underpays or denies the claim, the financial burden falls on the patient. And if the patient can’t pay? The doctor eats the loss.
No other profession operates like this. Imagine a contractor building a house and only finding out months later whether they’ll be paid, and how much. That’s how American healthcare works.
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Transcarent Completes Merger With Accolade
What You Should Know:
- Transcarent today announced the successful completion of its merger with Accolade, a market leader in health advocacy, expert medical opinion, and virtual primary care.
- The newly combined organization, operating under the Transcarent name, now serves an impressive 20 million lives across more than 1,700 employer and health plan clients. This scale uniquely positions the company to address over 80 percent of an employer's healthcare spending by
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MedeAnalytics, Socially Determined, and Mathematica Join Forces to Quantify the Impact of Social Determinants of Health
What You Should Know:
- MedeAnalytics, a healthcare enterprise data enrichment platform and analytics software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, today announced a collaboration with Socially Determined and Mathematica.
- The strategic partnership aims to revolutionize the way the healthcare industry measures, validates, and understands the financial impact of interventions targeting social determinants of health (SDOH).
Transform Social Determinants of Health
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5 Value-Based Care Strategies to Control Patient Care Costs
The staggering reality that health care could soon account for one fifth of all domestic spending has put a bull’s eye on health care cost control. Is your ACO, health system, or physician organization ready to manage the coming congressional budget cuts? The only effective way to tackle Total Costs of Patient Care (TCoC) without cutting services is through a curated value-based care approach. Here are the fundamentals you need to know and five strategic steps to
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Rural America Loses Independent Physicians and Practices at Alarming Rate, Report Finds
What You Should Know:
- A new report commissioned by the Physicians Advocacy Institute (PAI) and conducted by Avalere reveals a significant decline in the number of independent physicians and medical practices in rural areas of the United States between January 2019 and January 2024.
- The report raises concerns about reduced access to care, rising costs, and a decline in care quality for rural communities.
Report Background/Methodology
The analysis used data from the
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Modivcare & Aetna Deploy Higi Stations in Illinois Communities
What You Should Know:
- Illinoisans now have easy access to user friendly enhanced health stations through a collaboration between Modivcare Inc. (the “Company” or “Modivcare”) (Nasdaq: MODV), a healthcare services company integrating technology into personalized care experiences, focused on improving health outcomes, and Aetna Better Health® of Illinois, a CVS Health® company.
- The Modivcare Higi Stations offer self-service health information and digital navigation, as well as
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