The first quarter of 2024 saw a significant uptick in merger and acquisition activity, with 20 announced transactions – which, according to Kaufman Hall, represents the strongest first quarter since Q1 2020, just before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The House Subcommittee on Health and witnesses slammed insurers Tuesday for continuing to make money during the Change cyberattack crisis while hospitals and health systems suffer revenue losses and some physician practices are on the brink of bankruptcy.
Suki recently joined forces with Amwell’s Converge telehealth platform, says Punit Soni, CEO & founder of Suki AI.
Elevance Health and private investment firm Clayton, Dublier and Rice (CD&R) have agreed to form a strategic partnership meant to accelerate innovation in primary care delivery, with an eye toward improving experience and outcomes. The effort will bring together certain care delivery and enablement assets of Elevance Health’s Carelon Health and CD&R portfolio companies apree […]
This includes large print, braille, audio recordings and the newest piece, providing documents in the dominant language, says Ernie Crawford, president and CEO of Crawford Technologies.
The Department of Justice has filed a False Claims Act complaint against Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, a New York-based pharmaceutical company, over allegedly inflating Medicare reimbursement rates for Eylea, an injection therapy approved for retinal diseases. It was approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat, among other conditions, neovascular age-related macular degeneration. WHAT’S THE IMPACT
The Change Healthcare cyberattack is expected to cost UnitedHealth Group $1 billion to $1.5 billion this year, according to CFO John Rex, who was also named president this month.
The Michigan State University Board of Trustees has approved the construction of a $335 million biomedical research center in Detroit. The seven-story, 335,000-square-foot facility will be owned by Michigan State University and operated jointly as part of a 30-year partnership with Henry Ford Health.
The Coalition of Health AI (CHAI) is a consensus-driven set of standards among over 1,300 organizations, says CHAI CEO Dr. Brian Anderson.
Three European healthcare leaders discuss joining forces for Project Asclepius to define ways of working to influence the industry amid a lack of standardization across markets.