Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is touting itself as the first in the state, and one of the first in the country, to create a financial payment model rewarding health systems and physicians for eliminating racial and ethnic inequities in care.
InterSystems is overcoming interoperability challenges and gleaning insights from a trove of patient data around Asia-Pacific, according to Stella Ramette, director of customer relations and sales in Southeast Asia.
Two virtual reality companies are set to combine. What effect will this have on healthcare? We’ll examine that and other news developments in this week’s Top Stories, including the NIH’s push to inform study participants if they have increased risks for certain health conditions, and lawmakers’ efforts to curb fraud in ACO REACH. For more […]
For the first time, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services is proposing to establish a health equity index in the Medicare Advantage and Part D Star Ratings program that would reward excellent care for underserved populations.
The number of Black, Hispanic and female applicants and enrollees continued to increase at U.S. medical schools in the 2022-23 academic year, according to new data from the Association of American Medical Colleges. This year, the number of medical school applicants returned to pre-pandemic levels, after the 2021-2022 academic year data revealed a record-setting and […]
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and six physician organizations across the state are launching full-risk reimbursement arrangements for their Medicare Advantage PPO and Blue Care Network Medicare Advantage plans, the insurer announced this week.
Two U.S. Senators, Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island and John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, have introduced bipartisan legislation that seeks to create a two-year extension for a 5% bonus for doctors who participate in alternative payment models.
Kyle Pyron, SVP of healthcare marketing at food services provider Sodexo, explains the reasons his company added an augmented intelligence-powered patient texting system to its portfolio.
Bright Health Group is in danger of being delisted by the New York Stock Exchange. On December 6, the Minneapolis-based insurance company received written notice from the New York Stock Exchange that it was not in compliance with the continued listing standard as the average closing price of its common stock was less than $1 […]
Despite a shaky economy and fears of a recession, healthcare mergers and acquisitions are expected to continue, with ever-increasing transaction volumes, according to a new analysis from PricewaterhouseCoopers.