Healthcare’s Smokejumpers: Filling Critical Clinical Gaps with Independent Contractor Physicians
What if working with independent contractor physicians is the key to unlocking a more stable sustainable healthcare workforce?
It’s Time for Nursing To Return to Its Roots
Many physicians, podiatrists, psychologists, and occupational and physical therapists are able to take advantage of the ability to be an independent contractor with little scrutiny. Those who oppose it when it comes to nursing fail to see nurses as anything but a tax classification; they don’t understand that trying to corral nurses back into a system of work that does not work for them will only intensify the nursing shortage by exacerbating the flight from the workforce.
At ViVE 2024, Panelists Share Prior Authorization Progress and Frustration in Payer Insights Program
At the Payer Insights sessions on Day 1 of ViVE 2024, a panel on prior authorization offered compelling insights from speakers who shared the positive developments in this area after years of mounting frustration. Speakers also shared challenges as they work with providers to figure out how policy developments and technology will work in practice.
Stride Health launches new benefits platform for gig workers
The startup's Stride Benefits Platform allows companies like DoorDash, Postmates and Instacart to bolster the company's health recommendation service with ancillary benefits like dental vision and life insurance, as well as mileage and expense tracking and prescription discounts.