Homecare is facing challenges and none are new. Reimbursement rates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are low and staffing shortages are high, as is demand for home health services due to a rising, elderly demographic.
Express Scripts, the pharmacy benefits services business of The Cigna Group’s Evernorth, has entered into a collaboration with CPESN USA, a network of pharmacy providers that delivers health services, to provide support to independent and community pharmacies.
The technology holds great progress to get that needle in a haystack data and do something with it, even applying higher levels of cognition, says Tim O’Connell, cofounder and CEO of Emtelligent.
Former American Express executive Kristina Fink has joined CVS Health as its new senior vice president, corporate secretary and chief governance officer, according to a LinkedIn post.
Raising $60 million, Tuesday Health has launched an app and supportive care for seriously-ill Medicare patients in partnership with Valtruis, Blue Venture Fund, Mass General Brigham Ventures and CareSource.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is once again sounding the alarm bell on bird flu, and is asking health officials in all 50 states to continue monitoring the prevalence of H5N1 infections even during the warmer months. While respiratory viruses tend to spread more easily during colder months, bird flu infections among poultry […]
Other innovations include virtual bedside nursing support, ambient AI for documentation and population health strategies, says Dr. Roosevelt De Los Santos, medical director, health informatics at Trinity Health.
Medicaid value-based primary care company Cityblock is teaming with Florida-based Sunshine Health, a Centene subsidiary, to provide primary care and care coordination services to high-need, hard-to-reach Medicaid members in 11 Central Florida counties. The partnership, which began this month, includes wrap-around services offered to members 24/7 and across modalities, allowing members the option to see […]
A new pharmacy model from Optum Rx called Clear Trend Guarantee is seeking to increase transparency around drug costs for members. The pharmacy services arm of UnitedHealth Group’s Optum, Optum Rx is promising that its price-centered offering will offer drug benefit plan sponsors greater predictability of pharmacy spend to help manage the total lowest net cost.
An appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling on 340B that sided with drug manufacturers. At issue is whether pharmaceutical companies can limit distribution of discounted drugs in the 340B program. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has said that they can.