Walgreens has said it’s the first community pharmacy to accept a broad array of Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits online, through its website and the Walgreens app, allowing eligible members to shop from a catalog of about 1,700 Shop Eligible Products on Walgreens digital channels.
Signify Health, a subsidiary of CVS Health, will add a heart arrhythmia test to its Diagnostic and Preventive Services offering. The move is intended to broaden Signify’s range of in-home services designed to support earlier detection, diagnosis and management of various medical conditions.
Beginning this spring, CarelonRX, will launch a weight management program to provide support to members who are on weight loss journeys – including those who use GLP-1 medications. CarelonRx is the pharmacy services segment within Carelon, Elevance Health’s health services division.
Longtime CIOs Cris Ross and Ed Marx will talk at HIMSS24 about their own care journeys and their book, “Diagnosed: An Insider’s Guide to Your Healthcare Journey,” with author proceeds benefiting cancer research at the Mayo Clinic.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the final part one guidance for the new Medicare Prescription Payment Plan.
Dr. Peter Bonis, chief medical officer at Wolters Kluwer Health, says the acquisition of drug-diversion company Invistics is helping to route appropriate medications to the right patients.
Northwell Health and Nuvance Health, both nonprofits, have entered into a strategic agreement to form a new integrated regional health system serving communities across two states. The proposed agreement will allow the organizations to come together formally once regulatory approvals are squared away.
The Food and Drug Administration has announced its final decision to withdraw approval of Pepaxto, which was approved for use in combination with dexamethasone to treat certain patients with multiple myeloma.
MGMA, the Medical Group Management Association, said it is getting alarming feedback about how physician practices have been impacted by the Change Healthcare cybersecurity attack. Change confirmed today that ALPHV/Blackcat perpetrated the cybercrime.
Bridging the gap between research and clinical practice through digital health technologies is the subject of a HIMSS24 session with the Mayo Clinic’s SaMD regulatory affairs manager, Brenna Loufek.