2025 is a year that is seeing rapid numbers changing in the field of healthcare. From global rankings and how Americans are insured to federal spending, the ongoing nursing shortage and a record number of measles cases, it’s important to keep accurate healthcare updates. This week’s Friday at Five takes a look at some of this year’s standout numbers in healthcare.
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Find a new podcast or catch up on some of your favorites, here are all the newest episodes released this week on Healthcare NOW Radio. Have a great weekend!
Health IT business news from Collette Health, Radware, TSI Healthcare, athenahealth, rater8, Regard, WellDoc, Databricks, Red Sky Health, Altera Digital Health, Kontakt.io, PFU America, symplr, Clearwater, Linus Health, Converge Health, Briya, MDpanel, The Craneware Group and more.
Latest announcements made from companies and organizations on hiring include Reimagine Care, Medical Home Network, Vida Health, InStride Health, MedReview, CHG Healthcare, Propel Health, Aledade, Joyce University, CareSource, AVIA, DrFirst, CCMC, & Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.
By Elisabeth Rosenthal – The No Surprises Act, which took effect in 2022, was rightly heralded as a landmark piece of legislation, which “protects people covered under group and individual health plans from receiving surprise medical bills,” according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. And yet bills that take patients like Chen by surprise just keep coming.
Health IT product news from Wheel, Altera Digital Health, Medical Microinstruments, VSee, Teladoc Health, CoreCare, ScienceSoft, John Snow Labs, Suki, Ambience Healthcare, City of Hope, FinThrive, RadiantGraph and more.
Business and financial news from Zócalo Health, ŌURA, Progyny, Arrive AI, Omega Healthcare, ZeOmega, NextGen Healthcare, Wolters Kluwer Health, MedeAnalytics, CentralReach, athenahealth, CentralReach and more.
Reported payers and health insurance industry news from Independence Blue Cross, Humana, Peach State Health Plan, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, CareSource, Medica, Cigna, and more.
By Greta Barnes – Imagine Jane, a mid‑level project manager, powering through another flare‑up of her rheumatoid arthritis. Her joints ache, fatigue drapes over her like a heavy blanket, and she knows she needs to take a day or two away from her desk. When she checks her company’s PTO policy, however, she’s met with rigid accrual tiers and a “use it or lose it” deadline.