Latest news being reported on payers and the health insurance industry including news from AHIP, CVS Health, Cigna, Evernorth, American Medical Association, UnitedHealthcare, UnitedHealth Group, Humana, Labor First, and more.
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By Lynn Carroll & Rahul Sharma – The promise of producing better patient and population outcomes while reducing healthcare costs continues to drive the adoption of value-based care by providers and payers. VBC contracts are projected to cover nearly 65 million Americans by 2025.
Latest news being reported on payers and the health insurance industry including news from UnitedHealthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, CVS Health, Humana, AHIP, CareSource, Cigna, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, DrFirst, athenahealth, Aetna, HHS, and more.
By Robbie Hughes – No Ordinary Doctor’s Office: With a subscription model in Amazon Prime, the acquisition of PillPack, the Schmidt-Thompson protocols and now OneMedical, is the Seattle entrepreneur’s early visionary investment in healthcare about to hit its mark?
By Mike Hodge – Long term acute care facilities are increasingly challenged to care for higher acuity patients transferred from hospital intensive care units. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this trend by driving a greater number of sicker patients into LTAC settings as hospitals reach ICU capacity.
With the release of the 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program (QPP) proposed rule on July 7 came immediate reactions from around the industry before the comment period ends on September 7th.
By Harris Meyer – Fresh off the Federal Trade Commission’s successful challenges to four hospital mergers, the Biden administration’s new majority on the commission is primed to more aggressively combat consolidation in the health care industry than it has in past years.
By Dr. Martin Lustick – In April, NextGen Healthcare’s leadership team met with leaders of provider organizations representing a range of specialties and geographies. One of the themes that came through loud and clear was their ongoing struggle to obtain claims data from their payers.
By David Burda – Hospitals, health systems and medical practices are businesses just like businesses in any other industry. They respond to economic incentives, and they do things for economic reasons. Plain and simple. Well, maybe not so plain and simple.