Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 11, 2024

The federal government is pressing UnitedHealth Group and other payers to provide financial relief to providers as they continue to feel the financial disruption caused by the Change Healthcare cyb | The federal government is pressing UnitedHealth Group and other payers to provide financial relief to providers as they continue to feel the financial (..)

127

127

STAT

MARCH 19, 2024

UnitedHealth Group appears to be offering some providers more substantial loans in the wake of the cyberattack on Change Healthcare, according to three doctors who each saw their advances increase up to seven figures. It’s not clear exactly what prompted the change in these providers’ offers, or how broadly it applies.

Insurance 126

Insurance Hospitals 126

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 24, 2024

Grocery delivery company Instacart notched another partnership with a care provider as it extends its reach into healthcare. | The company will work with in-home care provider DispatchHealth to enable providers to prescribe food interventions, much like traditional medications, right to patients' homes.

128

128

Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 1, 2024

Payers, providers and pharmacies are scrambling to keep up after a high-profile cyberattack against a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary took down critical systems. Payers, providers and pharmacies are scrambling to keep up after a high-profile cyberattack against a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary took down critical systems.

132

132

Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 20, 2024

Artera's tech helps healthcare providers deliver timely patient communications with automated referral outreach and real-time responses and automates pre-visit communications to make sure patients and staff are prepared for the appointment.

Communication 130

Communication 130

Drug Topics

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Safiya Tisdell details the available assistance options designed to ease the financial burden associated with accessing care for both patients and providers.

98

98

Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 21, 2024

Long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) providers play a vital role in our health system. As such, long-term and post-acute care providers are in a position to lead the way on value-based care. Continuing to improve and coordinate post-acute care can lead to higher quality and lower costs.

110

110

Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 17, 2024

WIth 31% of the US population living in a health care provider shortage area, current bills in Congress look to broaden the scope of pharmacists’ role in patient care.

Patient Care 123

Patient Care 123

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 16, 2024

Healthcare providers held the receptive ears of lawmakers during a congressional hearing Tuesday morning exploring cybersecurity and related policy changes to be made in the wake of the Change Heal | With UnitedHealth Group out of the room, lawmakers were happy to entertain providers' calls for greater third-party cybersecurity liability and antitrust (..)

74

74

STAT

MARCH 6, 2024

Both counties urged unvaccinated people who had been in the listed locations at the listed times to contact public health or their health care provider, warning them to phone ahead if they needed to seek in-person care. Read the rest…

Hospitals 145

Hospitals 145

Drug Topics

MAY 25, 2023

Iowa's Department of Health and Human Services, which manages the two health insurers that delivered care to adults and children in the state’s Medicaid program last year, was alleged to provide inadequate mental and behavioral health care to children on Medicaid.

Insurance 187

Insurance 187

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Providers working in hospitals and critical access hospitals may now text patient information and patient orders among care team members without landing on the wrong side of Medicare’s Conditions o | Texting patient info has been against Medicare's Conditions of Participations for over half a decade, due to concerns of insecure texting platforms. (..)

HIPAA 133

HIPAA Hospitals 133

Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 6, 2024

As providers try to get more patients into preventive screenings, they lean on patient engagement tools to reach them. Millions of cancer screenings were missed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the U.S.

130

130

Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 8, 2024

LOS ANGELES—Health insurers have access to a bevy of valuable data, and the push toward interoperability made it easier for those data to be shared with providers. |

Insurance 126

Insurance 126

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Accountable care organizations are calling on the feds to increase participation of long-term and post-acute care providers in ACOs and to better incorporate episodic-based payments. Payers, providers, ACO leaders and advocacy groups convened to discuss how to improve long-term and post-acute care participation in ACOs.

110

110

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 25, 2024

As Amazon builds out its healthcare business and expands its reach into hybrid primary care, pharmacy operations and virtual care, there are promising opportunities to integrate these services to o | A year after its big-ticket primary care acquisition, Amazon Pharmacy is piloting a program to provide pharmacy consultations to One Medical providers (..)

127

127

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 31, 2024

Provider groups and the legislative allies took to the field this week to drum up more support for bills designed to protect the healthcare workforce’s physical and mental well-being.

118

118

The FDA Law Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

This Revised Draft Guidance provides considerations for manufacturers, packers or distributors (dubbed “firms”) of prescription biological reference products, biosimilar products, and interchangeable biosimilar products presenting data and information about such products in promotional materials in a truthful and non-misleading way.

Labelling 59

Labelling Communication FDA 59

Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A jump in claim delays and denials is “wreaking havoc on providers’ revenue cycle performance” and contributing to health systems’ “volatile” accounts receivable and diminishing cash reserves, acco | More frequent pushback from commercial and Medicare Advantage payers is complicating patient self-pay collections and, ultimately, undermining the revenues (..)

Hospitals 131

Hospitals 131

Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Providers are under significant pressure as the COVID-19 pandemic effects wear on, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that they're pushing payers for more in contract negotiations.

122

122

Drug Store News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Using Instacart Health technology, DispatchHealth's in-home providers can now prescribe food interventions as they do traditional medications.

102

102

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 3, 2024

The survey reached more than 2,000 patients and found many patients frustrated by limited opportunities to communicate with their providers.

Communication 126

Communication 126

Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 15, 2023

More than two dozen healthcare payers and providers, including CVS, Premera Blue Cross and Mass General Brigham, are making voluntary safety, security and transparency commitments to the White Hous | More than two dozen healthcare payers and providers are making voluntary safety, security and transparency commitments to the White House regarding the (..)

129

129

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Rural providers optimistic about financial stability, plan to expand services, Wipfli survey finds agliadkovskaya Mon, 02/05/2024 - 15:34

121

121

Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Healthcare providers have upped their spending on IT and software, a shift leaders said is driven by the new technologies, labor challenges and other financial pressures on their organizations, acc | Nearly 80% of polled provider executives report higher tech spending during the past year, and about three quarters say their numbers will grow over the (..)

128

128

European Pharmaceutical Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

LAURA shows osimertinib can provide impactful clinical benefit and could become the first targeted treatment option for patients with Stage III disease,” explained Dr Suresh Ramalingam, Executive Director of Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, US, and principal investigator in the trial.

Chemotherapy 93

Chemotherapy 93

European Pharmaceutical Review

APRIL 5, 2024

The post mRNA therapy could provide intracellular protein replacement for rare disease appeared first on European Pharmaceutical Review. Moderna confirmed that additional patient enrolment for the dose expansion phase of the study will further assess the efficacy, safety, and pharmacodynamic activity of mRNA-3927.

Vaccines 94

Vaccines 94

Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Federal regulators have accused a major Texas-based anesthesia provider and its parent private equity firm of a decade-long, three-pronged scheme to suppress competition and drive-up prices. |

145

145

Pharmacy Times

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Tune in to this enlightening episode of Pharmacy Focus: Policy Edition to gain a deep understanding of the challenges, implications, and advocacy strategies surrounding provider status for pharmacists.

132

132

Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 8, 2024

WellSpan Health is taking the burden off its providers by deploying an AI-driven clinical documentation tool from Nuance. | DAX Copilot, from Microsoft’s speech recognition subsidiary Nuance Communications, integrates with Epic to draft clinical notes during visits.

Documentation 110

Documentation Communication 110

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 12, 2024

While market pressures have often left payers and providers at odds in contract negotiations, leaders at Trinity Health and Anthem Blue Cross said that things don't always have to be this way. | The two announced Thursday that they had reached an agreement to extend their network agreement for multiple years.

116

116

Pharmacy Times

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Pharmacy's position at the intersection of the care team gives it a unique ability to connect providers, payers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers, and support patients to maximize their health outcomes.

81

81

Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As new primary care models, including retail health clinics, continue to scale, the national supply of clinical providers will become even more constrained. | As new primary care models, including retail health clinics, continue to scale, the national supply of clinical providers will become even more constrained.

Hospitals 129

Hospitals 129

Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 16, 2024

Two Chairs, a hybrid behavioral health provider, has closed $72 million in a series C equity and debt financing round. | The company operates in three states with plans to expand to new markets. It will also use the latest capital to beef up its technology.

68

68

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Zocdoc has launched a new guided search to help patients choose and book the right provider with greater confidence. | The guided search offers a more tailored set of results based on patients’ unique care needs.

71

71

Drug Topics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Two posters presented at ASHP 2023 Midyear examined how accurate answers were from the artificial intelligence chatbot.

211

211

STAT

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It either owns or is affiliated with over 90,000 providers — almost 10% of all U.S. UnitedHealth Group’s Optum has bought an untold number of physician practices over the years. physicians. That’s mostly happened quietly.

Insurance 135

Insurance Hospitals 135