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Medicaid still leads gov in payment errors but showing improvement

Medicaid’s $50 billion in improper payments was the highest total for a single program—but it was also the most improved government program, cutting about $30 billion from its 2022 improper payments total.

Steward to sell doc network to Optum

If the proposal—of which no financial details were made public—goes through, Steward doctors in nine states would be managed by Optum.

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

5 tips on AI adoption from a frontline physician champion

AI adoption for real-world healthcare settings can’t happen in a vacuum.

‘Boreout’ in the C-suite

Feeling overwhelmed by your work? There’s a lot of that going around these days. Some call it burnout. But there’s another side to the story.

Sexual harassment of new physicians remains a nasty, solution-resistant problem

First-year medical residents are getting sexually harassed at work less frequently now than several years ago. That said, incident rates are still alarmingly high.

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The approval, made as part of a special FDA pilot program, took just 50 days.