The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to build on the lessons learned from experimental private plans for dual-eligibles, an agency official said. The changes could come as soon as this fall.
In a Series B funding round led by Advocate Aurora Enterprises, the digital health platform Xealth received $24 million from 14 health system investors.
After more than 20 years as CEO of one of the most well-known systems for quality and safety, Gary Kaplan is leaving Virginia Mason Franciscan Health to spearhead efforts at parent company CommonSpirit Health.
Gary Kaplan is stepping down from his role as CEO at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health as of Jan. 2022, but will continue advising the new sole CEO Ketul Patel.
The Deerfield-based retail giant invests $970 million in a specialty pharmacy company, expanding Walgreens Boots Alliance's core business as rivals also look to expand.
That is more than three times the rate negotiated between hospitals and insurers, a new FAIR Health report estimates.
President Joe Biden is betting on millions more rapid, at-home tests to help curb the latest deadly wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is overloading hospitals and threatening to shutter classrooms around the country.
A member of the public blamed the health officer for his wife's recent death due to COVID-19.
J&J said in statement Tuesday that it ran two early studies in people previously given its vaccine and found that a second dose produced an increased antibody response in adults from age 18 to 55. The study's results haven't yet been peer-reviewed.
