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Bonus Features – September 24, 2023 – 72 percent of patients say affordability is the biggest challenge for paying medical bills

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Collaborations between AI vendors and biotech/pharma companies over the last five years are worth more than $45 billion , according to a recent report from Accenture. Medicare Advantage costs are 12% lower than similar beneficiaries covered under fee-for-service Medicare, according to research from Inovalon and Harvard Medical School.

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Bonus Features – May 7, 2023 – Less than 1% of all medical claims include an ICD-10 Z code, 78% of consumers say virtual health is important when considering health plans, and more

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News CMS has opened the Hardship Exception application period for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) that participated in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program in 2022. The silver lining: Healthcare is the leading sector, though most funds are going to biotech.

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Bonus Features, HLTH Edition – October 11, 2023 – Announcements from Best Buy, General Catalyst, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Walgreens, and more

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Optum and Uber are partnering to make non-urgent medical transportation and healthy food delivery covered benefits for certain Medicare Advantage plans beginning in 2024. Senior care company DOUS announced the DUOS+AI platform , a conversational AI tool for members enrolled in Medicare Advantage.

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The intersection of remote patient monitoring and AI

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She has been involved with more than 20 early-stage biotech and healthcare startups, including ones working on medical devices and digital health. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is one of the organizations that sets the standard of care in the U.S. When dealing with AI, life begins at one billion data points.

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