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Top Story Inside the Kaiser Contract That Ended the Biggest Healthcare Strike in US History About 85,000 Kaiser Permamente workers voted to ratify a new contract, putting to end what was the largest strike in the history of the healthcare industry. The new contract includes terms for higher wages, more employee education, increased hiring and retention efforts, and greater involvement of frontline workers in the health system's staffing decisions. Sponsored Content How Tech is Saving Time for Specialty Pharmacies and Improving the Patient Experience Presented by Surescripts and MedCity News One of the challenges of specialty pharmacies is the need to improve the patient experience.  Surescripts' Clinical Product Advisor Cecelia Byers shared how the company is working to simplify prescribing and obtaining specialty medications. Click here to read the full interview Sponsored Content Heard at HLTH 2023: BrightInsight Presented by BrightInsight CEO & Co-founder, Kal Patel discusses the partnership with CSL Behring and the pharma company's therapy Hizentra.  Watch Now

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Report: The Average Medicare Beneficiary Will Choose From 43 MA Plans in 2024 In total, there are 3,959 Medicare Advantage plans being offered for individual enrollment in 2024, a 1% decrease from 2023, according to a new report from KFF. Food as Medicine Startup Launches With $3M in Funding The Heali app, which launched Thursday, offers personalized nutrition plans for more than 200 chronic conditions, including diabetes, allergies, autoimmune issues and gastrointestinal issues. Users can also access nutrition studies that explain the benefits of certain foods, as well as recipes that fit their diet. Fulfilling the Quadruple Aim of Healthcare with AI Putting all the AI pieces into place effectively requires clarity of what organizations want to accomplish – and for much of healthcare, the Quadruple Aim remains at the very top. Although how to get there will look different, clarity on principles and values that will guide the development of what comes next is paramount to setting us up for years to come. Investor Appetite For Telehealth Post-Pandemic: Opportunities Based on Medicaid and Commercial Insurance Markets Notwithstanding the end of PHEs and corresponding loss in many waivers and policies that allowed for increased telehealth adoption during the pandemic, the recent actions of state governments and private payers indicate that interest in telehealth remains strong. AstraZeneca Pays $185M to Add Oral GLP-1 Drug Candidate to Pipeline AstraZeneca gains global rights to an oral GLP-1 agonist on track to reach Phase 2 testing in 2024. Under China-based Eccogene, the small molecule's Phase 1 data show reductions in glucose and body weight. Payers and Providers Are at War, Atlantic Health System CEO Says Brian Gragnolati, CEO of Atlantic Health System, said that "there's a war going on between providers and payers right now." In his view, payers "are doing everything they can" not to pay providers for the care they deliver. He said insurers have greatly increased their rate of denials and are extremely reluctant to take on risk in value-based contracts.

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MedCity Moves Podcast: Recent Hires, Layoffs & an Interview with Jeff Smith, CEO of Bamboo Health For October's guest interview, we are joined by Jeff Smith, who became the CEO of digital health company Bamboo Health this month. Before Bamboo, Smith held several leadership positions at Lumeris, a value-based care managed services operator for health systems. Before that, he spent more than six years in leadership roles at CVS. Listen Now

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