Hospital operating margins showed slight improvement from February to March, but year-over-year they’re still down almost 49%, marking the third straight month in which margins lagged – suggesting that hospitals still have a long road to travel before they recover financially from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Guidewell and Highmark Ventures led a $35 million funding round for Healthmap, a kidney population health management company, joining other investors such as Windrose, DCHP and Shulman Ventures, who contributed to previous funding rounds. GuideWell is the parent of Florida Blue and Triple-S Management, the Blue Cross Blue Shield plans of Florida and Puerto Rico, […]
Mental health concerns keep rising among Americans of all backgrounds, especially those who are Black, young adults, older than 65 or who identify as LGBTQIA+.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Friday approved the Atrius-Optum merger. Justice Dalila Argaez Wendlandt determined the proposed transaction was in the public interest and that it was impracticable for Atrius to continue operations in its present form.
BOSTON – Aaron Maguregui, a digital health attorney at Foley & Lardner, said he gets asked all the time, “Is it OK to use pixels and cookies on a telemedicine website?” It goes to the bigger question for telehealth providers: When does data collected from a telemedicine website become patient data? Attorneys from Foley & […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a final rule on Friday with policies meant to provide greater transparency for Medicare Advantage and Part D plans.
Medicare Advantage Organizations sometimes delayed or denied Medicare Advantage beneficiaries’ access to services, even though the prior authorization requests met Medicare coverage rules, according to a new report by the Office of the Inspector General.
Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health has announced that Wright L. Lassiter III will succeed Lloyd H. Dean as its next CEO starting on August 1. Dean announced last fall that he would retire this year. Lassiter has been CEO of Henry Ford Health since 2016 and joined that health system as president in 2014.