The Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, has announced nearly $100 million in awards to grow the national healthcare workforce and improve access in high-need areas.
In an unanimous bipartisan vote on Thursday, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Thursday held Steward Health CEO Dr. Ralph de la Torres in civil and criminal contempt for his failure to comply with a subpoena to appear before the committee. Both resolutions now go before the full Senate for a […]
Because there are barriers to adoption and trust, solutions need to be useful, be transparent around information that goes into performance and be safe, fair and cybersecure, says Dr. Sonya Makhni, medical director of applied informatics at Mayo Clinic Platform.
The Health Resources & Services Administration has sent a letter to Johnson & Johnson warning the company of the consequences if it proceeds with its planned 340B rebate proposal.
Interoperability has been a longstanding goal for healthcare: The promise of being able to exchange data seamlessly between health information networks has been a goal the industry has been working toward for years, and now payers and healthcare organizations have to wrangle with rules, passed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, governing how […]
Express Scripts by Evernorth, a Cigna company, is suing the Federal Trade Commission, demanding that it retract a July report on the pharmacy benefit manager industry.
Deploying AI needs a strategy for use cases that starts with identifying problems that need to be solved, says Michael Pencina, director of Duke AI Health.
Community Health Systems’ subsidiary Northwest Urgent Care will acquire 10 Arizona urgent care centers from Carbon Health. Northwest Urgent Care in Tucson, Arizona, is part of Northwest Healthcare’s integrated healthcare network serving Tucson and surrounding communities. WHY THIS MATTERS
Cigna Healthcare, the health benefits division of The Cigna Group, has launched an E-Treatment option through MDLIVE by Evernorth Beginning this month, Cigna members can connect for urgent care from board-certified doctors without any direct interaction via phone or video.
After increasing by more than 400% between 2015 and 2023, federal spending on Medicare Advantage bonus payments will decline by $1 billion to $11.8 billion in 2024 – an 8% decline – following the expiration of pandemic-era policies that temporarily increased star ratings for some plans, according to a new KFF analysis. Despite the decline, […]