by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 24, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
A new Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) analysis is the latest to sound alarms over rural hospitals’ finances in the coming year, especially if those hospitals are operating in the 11 states that haven’t opted to expand Medicaid. KFF found median operating margins...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 24, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves, Uncategorized
Republicans listed fentanyl and opioids as the top public health threat plaguing the U.S. in a new Axios-Ipsos survey, as both parties in Congress seek to spotlight the country’s overdose crisis.The new poll, published on Thursday, found that 37 percent of Republican...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 23, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) leaders say the agency has handed out nearly 500 warnings to hospitals falling short on price transparency as of January and plans to streamline enforcement and standardize hospital reporting requirements. Enforcement...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 23, 2023 | Payers, Tea Leaves
A federal judge has temporarily forbidden a former Cigna executive from taking a position at CVS Health as part of an anti-poaching lawsuit. CVS Health hired Amy Bricker, then president of Cigna’s Express Scripts pharmacy benefit manager subsidiary, to be chief...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 23, 2023 | M&A, Tea Leaves
UnitedHealth has closed its $5.4 billion acquisition of home health business LHC Group, continuing a trend of payers elbowing into direct care delivery. LHC Group will be folded into UnitedHealth’s Optum subsidiary. The combination will allow Optum and LHC to...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 23, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
A group of 20 Democratic members announced they are forming a coalition to protect and expand abortion access in their states as bans continue to be enacted following the fall of Roe v. Wade. Led by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the Reproductive Freedom Alliance...
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