Medicaid

The platform promotes utilization across critical, non-primarily health-related need areas, including food, pest control and transportation.   

The company will use the funds to scale operations and expedite growth in Medicare and ICHRA.

This week's top stories include racial and ethnic minority enrollees reporting significantly worse experiences around care access compared to whites, and Amazon Care expanding in-person offerings to 20 new cities.

This week's top stories include Amazon expanding its hybrid virtual/in-person care; Cityblock raising money to expand its platform for Medicaid and low-income populations; and AHIP wanting more time for insurers to implement a surprise billing rule.

This week's top stories include the VA flagging unreliable IT infrastructure cost estimates for its EHR modernization program, a new Alzheimer's drug that could cost Medicaid more than $2 billion, and Amazon using radar for monitoring sleep.

This week's top stories include Cue expecting to deliver six million COVID-19 molecular tests by March, while surging costs and revenue loss force hospitals to rely on support from county governments.

Beth Landon, director of policy, New Mexico Hospital Association, talks about how the organization is pushing data to clinicians so they have informed conversations with patients — rather than operating like TSA agents.