Optum is seeing an increase of new orphan drugs, and expects this trend to continue, if not accelerate, according to a drug pipeline report from the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary. What makes this important, said Sumit Dytta, chief medical officer at OptumRx, is that orphan drugs are priced more than 30 times higher than non-orphan drugs. […]
Education helps the LGBTQ+ community access monkeypox vaccines, according to Amy Chacko, chair of the New England HIMSS Clinical Informatics Committee.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is increasing scrutiny and oversight over the country’s poorest-performing nursing facilities. CMS is toughening requirements for completion to the Special Focus Facility Program and increasing enforcement actions for facilities that fail to demonstrate improvement.
In an effort to address the ongoing shortage of nurses in the U.S healthcare system, the Department of Health and Human Services has awarded $13 million to bolster nursing education and training to grow the nursing workforce and improve access to nursing education.
Two Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives have penned a letter to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Drug Enforcement Agency, imploring the agencies to extend flexibilities for audio-based telehealth so physicians may continue prescribing medication-assisted treatments to address opioid use disorder.
Medicare Advantage is a popular offering among insurers, but it’s landed Cigna in hot water with the feds. What happened? We’ll get to the bottom of that and other topics in this week’s Top Stories, including a new mental health product debuting from Calm, and the ramifications the end of the public health emergency could […]
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is attempting to address the national nursing shortage through a new program designed to make it more affordable for student nurses to complete their education and join the workforce. The UPMC Schools of Nursing Tuition Loan Forgiveness program will help alleviate financial obstacles for students pursuing a nursing career, the […]
The Department of Justice is looking for more information on the CVS Health and Signify Health merger, according to documents filed October 20 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. On October 19, both CVS and Signify received a request for additional information from the DOJ in connection with the department’s review of the transaction.
Rebecca Woods, founder of Bluebird Leaders, and founder and virtual CIO of Bluebird Tech Solutions, talks about the evolving roles for women in healthcare IT and how her nonprofit focuses on inspiring future female leaders.
Physicians are feeling overwhelmed by the demands of practicing medicine generally, but in particular by the demands of the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, leading many to experience hesitation when treating people with disabilities, finds a new survey published by Health Affairs.