Pittsburgh's Highmark Health made the rare disclosure on Monday that it saved $245 million in 2021 by preventing instances of fraud, waste and abuse. The health insurer said its program has saved almost $1 billion since 2017.
Tenet Healthcare leaders are considering whether it would be more beneficial to keep Conifer in-house rather than spinning it off as a separate subsidiary.
The bill's goal is to prevent long-term care residents from feeling isolated from their families as the COVID-19 pandemic persists. The bill maintains designated in-person visits in those facilities.
New federal guidelines clarify that insurers won't be punished for not providing direct-to-consumer tests during supply shortages.
Dr. Shreya Kangovi, founding director of the Penn Center for Community Health Workers and an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, joins The Check Up to talk about an innovative strategy for the wellbeing of marginalized communities.
Propelled in part by the wildly contagious omicron variant, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 900,000 on Friday, less than two months after eclipsing 800,000.
Already strained by the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals around the country are desperate to staff their facilities as the highly transmissible omicron variant spreads
A new website called Goodbill, and eventually coordinating mobile app, works by uploading your insurance card and the appropriate bar codes on the tests and automates the reimbursement process for the user.
The American Medical Association is deeply concerned about threatening behavior and how it has contributed to an increasingly hostile working environment, particularly for those on the front lines of COVID-19 treatment.
A new website called Goodbill, and eventually coordinating mobile app, works by uploading your insurance card and the appropriate bar codes on the tests and automates the reimbursement process for the user.
Scientists have found a previously unrecognized variant of HIV that's more virulent than usual and has quietly circulated in the Netherlands for the past few decades.
The number of lives lost to the pandemic in the U.S. stood at over 897,000 as of midday Friday, with deaths running at an average of more than 2,400 a day, back up to where they were last winter,
The company partners with Medicare Advantage, dual special needs plans and the federal government in value-based care models.
SOC Telemed went public in late 2020 after merging with a special purpose acquisition company.
The potential class could be made up of tens of thousands of employees, according to the lead plaintiff's attorney.
The Biden administration will award $19 million to teaching health centers to support new residency positions.
CMS recouped most of the $107 billion in advance reimbursements already, but some hospitals facing cash crunches could be subject to interest penalties without an extension.
The state attorney general has asked for information on UnitedHealthcare's security networks and patient information systems as well as communication related to the breach.
