YouTube and the Kaiser Family Foundation are joining forces on a new program geared toward nonprofit organizations, with an emphasis on creating educational videos about inequities in healthcare, including behavioral health and maternal care.

The American Medical Association is accusing health insurer Cigna of underpaying claims filed by providers in the contracted MultiPlan network, the largest third-party network in the country.

Data improves healthcare access by allowing agencies and providers across the state to build a holistic view of a patient’s needs, says Sumit Sajnani, health information technology officer for Connecticut’s Office of Health Strategy.

The Illinois Health Facilities & Services Review Board yesterday voted 3-2 to deny a change of ownership request for the Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health merger. The board later voted to reconsider the vote. It next meets on December 13.

In the realm of mobile crisis interventions, the state of Oregon will be getting a boost from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. HHS, through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has announced approval of the Oregon Health Authority’s proposal to cover community-based mobile crisis intervention services in Medicaid.

Almost three quarters of physicians, 74%, say they’re unclear on what constitutes a life-threatening emergency that would allow a doctor to legally perform an abortion in states where it is otherwise banned, a new survey has found.

The merger between Lightbeam and CareSignal aims to help more health systems improve patient engagement and population health, according to Lightbeam Health Solutions President Jerry Shultz and CareSignal CEO Blake Marggraff.  

Aetna will now be in the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges in 12 states after adding four more states to that total, the insurer said. California, Delaware, Illinois and New Jersey have been added to Aetna’s slate for the 2023 plan year, joining Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, North Carolina, Nevada, Texas and Virginia. The CVS Health […]

Unsealed brief  in the Department of Justice’s case against the UnitedHealth Group and Change Healthcare merger solidify arguments on both sides in the antitrust case.

Between 2010 and 2021, 136 rural hospitals closed, according to the UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center. Nineteen of these closures occurred in 2020, the most of any year in the past decade.