What are the proportionate places for people, processes and technology in defense strategy in the threat landscape? Anurag Lal, NetSfere CEO and past director of the FCC’s National Broadband Task Force, explains.  

Lakeland Regional Medical Center (LRMC) in Lakeland, Florida, has agreed to pay the United States $4 million to resolve allegations that it made donations to a local unit of government to improperly fund the state’s share of Medicaid payments to LRMC.

Health insurers ended 2022 with earnings up from the year prior, with EBITDA growing 12% in the fourth quarter, though a new report from Moody’s Investors Service predicts that this growth will slow in 2023.

NextGen Healthcare Chief Medical Officer Dr. Robert Murry will lead a panel at HIMSS23 with a focus on delivering coordinated care to people experiencing homelessness through street medicine.

Ellison Institute director of policy, Gabriel Seidman, talks about the institute’s work in creating a country-wide enterprise architecture for healthcare data that encompasses clinical, social determinants and public health data.  

Adopting site neutral payment policies for Medicare would yield savings for the program, for private insurance premiums and for enrollees’ out-of-pocket costs, which would total about $471 billion over the next decade, according to a new analysis from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.

At a special listening session this morning at American Telemedicine Association Annual Conference  & Expo, stakeholders were invited to voice their concerns over a controversial DEA proposed rule.

Walgreens-owned VillageMD announced Friday the acquisition of Starling Physicians, a multispecialty medical group operating over 30 locations in Connecticut. In addition to primary care, Starling Physicians offers specialty services cardiology, ophthalmology, endocrinology, nephrology and senior care. The financial terms were not disclosed. WHY THIS MATTERS The deal continues primary care acquisitions for VillageMD. 

Dr. James Luketich, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and University of Pittsburgh Physicians have settled with the United States government over a whistleblower lawsuit, brought in September 2021, that alleged fraudulent billing and unsafe surgical practices.