by Jordana Choucair | Oct 17, 2022 | Payers
A new Commonwealth Fund study shows that seniors who select Medicare Advantage (MA) over traditional Medicare plans this enrollment season will do so because of the perks. Overall, enrollment in MA plans is projected to rise to more than 50 percent by 2025....
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 17, 2022 | Payers
UnitedHealth Group’s Chief Financial Officer John Rex said it will cost the insurer $100 million to integrate Change Healthcare’s claims processing with its OptumInsight revenue cycle management unit. According to Rex, Change Healthcare will bring in a projected $800...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 14, 2022 | D.C. News
The Biden administration extended the nation’s COVID-19 public health emergency for the next 90 days. Even though daily deaths and case rates have been falling, health officials are bracing for a potential surge of infections over the winter. The extension ensures...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 14, 2022 | D.C. News
President Joe Biden will sign an executive order today urging federal officials to lower prescription costs. The order will require the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to outline within 90 days how it will use new models of care and payment to cut...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 14, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
A Stateline article discusses how 12 states are experimenting with Medicaid programs that allow physicians to prescribe healthy meals to prevent and treat diet-related diseases. The article specifically highlights an Oregon program that partnered three hospitals with...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 14, 2022 | M&A
Kaufman Hall’s quarterly hospital mergers and acquisitions report showed that there were only 10 transactions announced in Q3. Of those, two hospitals were acquired by for-profit health systems, four were acquired by an academic institution or university, three were...
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