Patient advocacy groups have sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services criticizing UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare Advantage marketing, asking the agency to investigate potentially misleading advertising tactics.

The White House has signaled its intent to address the potentially negative and problematic aspects of corporate ownership in healthcare, with a focus on drug pricing, transparency and anticompetitive behavior.

Benefits for patients include faster access, no delay in finding an available mental health provider and better coverage options, says Dr. Nele Jessel, chief medical officer of athenahealth.  

Physicians preferred the answers to medical questions provided by Google’s Med-PaLM to those written by other physicians, says Dr. Michael Howell, the company’s chief clinical officer. He discussed the experimentation with and evolution of the medically tuned LLM.  

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has reached a settlement with Lafourche Medical Group, a Louisiana medical group specializing in emergency medicine, occupational medicine and laboratory testing. The settlement resolves an investigation following a phishing attack that affected the electronic protected health information of about 34,862 people.

A bill introduced in the House would avert a pending 3.37% physician pay cut to Medicare payments, according to the American Medical Association.

CVS Health has announced a new branded name for its health services segment. CVS Healthspire includes Caremark, Cordavis, Oak Street Health, Signify Health and MinuteClinic. The groups within CVS Healthspire will continue to focus on integration across the company.

Multiple chronic conditions, ranging from diabetes to depression, are becoming more common, according to the United Health Foundation, the philanthropic arm of UnitedHealth Group. Many chronic conditions are at the highest levels ever recorded in the annual report.

Ensure the initiatives are aligned with the strategic goals of the organization, says Sunil Dadlani, Atlantic Health System CIO and digital officer who is speaking at the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum.  

The mission of the Indonesian Medical Association is to collaborate industry-wide and prepare physicians for the future, says association president Dr. Mohammad Adib Khumaidi.