About this episode

This episode discusses Medicare's pause on home health and hospice enrollment due to fraud concerns, calls for AI oversight in Medicaid, and a decline in drug overdose deaths.

Medicare pauses home health and hospice enrollment over fraud concerns, a congressional advisory committee calls for more oversight of AI prior authorization in Medicaid, and drug overdose deaths fell for the third year in a row. Coming up on today’s episode of The Gist Healthcare Podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Gist Healthcare Daily

Topics covered

• healthcare
• fraud
• AI oversight
• Medicaid
• drug overdose
• enrollment

Keywords

• Medicare
• home health
• hospice
• AI
• Medicaid
• drug overdose
• enrollment
• fraud
• oversight

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Organizations: Medicare, Congressional Advisory Committee, AI, Medicaid

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