Centene has sold off Magellan Rx to Prime Therapeutics for $1.5 billion, a move that will add Magellan’s specialty drug management to Prime’s pharmacy benefit management tools. The end result, the companies said, will be a “diversified pharmacy solutions organization” serving commercial markets and government programs.
The American Hospital Association has penned a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration, asking the agency to extend and provide clarity to pandemic-era rules that allowed providers to prescribe addiction treatment drugs via telehealth.
BOSTON – Medical devices are inherently vulnerable to security breaches, according to Anand Oswal, senior vice president and general manager of Palo Alto Networks, speaking at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum here on Monday.
Executive vision is required around how to think about the patient journey from start to finish to address chronic issues, says Patty Hayward, a VP at Talkdesk, which worked on the survey.
As Medicare Advantage continues to grow, it’s expected to surpass Original Medicare in enrollment numbers for 2023 as more insurers enter the market, with an increasing number of employer- and union-sponsored retiree health plans offering Medicare-eligible coverage, according to new findings from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Researchers from Censinet and KLAS Research aim at aligning healthcare cybersecurity collaboration through a new benchmarking study for 2023.
As 2022 comes to an end, Healthcare Finance News editors reflect on how much has changed over the past year and what that means for trends in 2023. The public health emergency is ongoing and will remain in place past January 11, 2023, putting the popularity of home health and telehealth in the balance.
UnitedHealthcare, the nation’s largest insurer, has lost its latest legal battle against provider group TeamHealth, with a three-judge arbitration panel in Florida ruling late last week that TeamHealth was owed $10.8 million due to underpayments from UHC from 2017 to 2020.
Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health have completed their merger after a delay in approval from The Illinois Health Facilities & Services Review Board.
New audits have raised the question: Are the feds being overbilled in their Medicare Advantage payments? I’m Jeff Lagasse with Healthcare Finance News, and we’ll take a closer look at that and other big news in this week’s Top Stories, including state AGs urging Apple to add new protections for reproductive health data, and Amazon […]