Insight

Gregg Margolis: Three things about health policy this week

Photo taken from Gregg Margolis/LinkedIn

Nov 5, 2023, 04:52

Gregg Margolis: Three things about health policy this week

Gregg Margolis, Director of Health Policy Fellowships and Leadership Programs at the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), shared on LinkedIn:

“If you can only read three things about health policy this week, I suggest…

The Wall Street Journal: The Death Rate For Babies In America Rose For The First Time In 20 Years. The rate of babies dying in the U.S. increased significantly for the first time in two decades, raising new alarms about maternal-infant health in America. The nation’s infant mortality rate rose 3% from 2021 to 2022, reversing a decades-long overall decline, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. The rate increased from 5.44 infant deaths for every 1,000 births to 5.6 in 2022, a statistically significant uptick. (Essley Whyte, 11/1)

Axios: Medicare Cuts Doctor And Hospital Payments. Medicare administrators served doctors and hospitals a pair of big payment cuts late Thursday. Doctors will see a 3.4% decrease to a key factor determining their base Medicare pay next year, officials announced in a final rule. That’s virtually unchanged from what administrators proposed this summer. (Goldman, 11/3)

Modern Healthcare: How Biden’s AI Executive Order Applies To Healthcare President Joe Biden signed a sweeping executive order and invoked the Defense Production Act on Monday to establish the first set of standards on the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare and other industries. As the hype, promise and usage of AI has grown in healthcare, health system leaders and developers have sought more concrete guardrails on its usage, particularly for clinical purposes. Biden signed the order at an afternoon AI-focused event at the White House. (Perna and Turner, 10/30)

For links, a deeper dive, or to subscribe click here.”

Source: Gregg Margolis/LinkedIn