Cody Coonradt, Billy’s CEO and founder, says patients are now able to negotiate prices for medical procedures and lower their bills by having location-based access to hospital pricing data.  

Centene’s second-quarter earnings report brought good financial news for the insurer as it posted $1.1 billion in profit and $39.8 billion revenue, both improvements over the $1.05 billion in profit and $37.6 billion revenue it logged in Q2 2023.

Optum is laying off 524 employees in California jobs, according to a required filing in that state through the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. Optum submitted the list of layoffs and permanent closures on July 18.

DuploCloud account executives Joshua Mattson and Aaron Blackmon said protecting sensitive data is key to ensuring customers are secure when they work on the cloud.

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, D-WA, and Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) have introduced the Health Over Wealth Act, legislation that would require greater transparency for private equity firms and for-profit companies that own healthcare entities, including hospitals, nursing homes and mental or behavioral health facilities.