After months of negotiations, a contract dispute between UnitedHealthcare and HCA Healthcare has been resolved, with the two parties coming to an agreement hours before a September 1 deadline that would have interrupted network coverage in Texas, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Colorado.
St. Peter’s Health, based out of Helena, Montana, will pay about $10.8 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it fraudulently submitted claims to federal healthcare programs for services performed by an oncology doctor.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute president and CEO Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher has announced she will step down on October 1 and assume the title of president emerita. Dr. Benjamin Levine Ebert, chair of the Department of Medical Oncology, will serve as the next president and CEO of Dana-Farber, effective October 1.
Highmark Health pulled in $14.7 billion in revenue, an operating gain of $307 million, and net income of $417 million during the first six months of this year – performance the company largely attributed to its insurance businesses. Those business units – notably Highmark Health Plans, United Concordia Dental and HM Insurance Group – were […]
Robert Booker, HITRUST’s chief strategy officer, talks about the need to deploy artificial intelligence responsibly in healthcare as a part of risk management, and how his company’s AI Risk Management Assessment helps companies grapple with rapidly evolving technology.
UCLA has received a $120 million commitment from surgeon, inventor and philanthropist Dr. Gary Michelson and his wife, Alya, to kick-start the California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy, a public-private partnership aimed at spurring breakthrough discoveries that prevent and cure diseases.
The American Hospital Association wants the Health Resources and Services Administration to levy monetary penalties against Johnson & Johnson if the drug company continues with its plan to give 340B hospitals rebates instead of upfront payments.
Orr Inbar, cofounder and CEO of QuantHealth, discusses how artificial intelligence can predict how patients will respond to therapies still in development, and the role tech has to play in drug development in the future.
Michigan-based McLaren Health Care’s information technology platforms have been restored following a cyberattack that occurred earlier this month, with the restoration completed ahead of schedule, officials said. Administrative functions are now fully functional across the state.
On average, Affordable Care Act marketplace enrollees had access to 40% of the doctors near their home through their plan’s network, with considerable variation around the average, according to a new KFF analysis.