Phoenix, Arizona-based Banner Health said it is an integrated delivery system that provides care in six states and is one of the largest, secular not-for-profit health systems in the nation.
Zane Burke, who previously led Livongo and served as Cerner's president, will take the helm at the 22-year-old healthcare navigation company.
The health insurance company misled Pennsylvania regulators by including the names of pediatric providers not contracted with Aetna—including dead people—in its network list.
There’s agreement that the plan includes important action items but also elements that will trigger political opposition.
Under threat of being sued, nearly half of the abortion doctors at one of the Texas' biggest providers have stopped working in the state.
Healthcare leaders who aren’t listening closely to their employees are passing on the chance to gain insight from workers sitting in the front-row seats of their organizations.
Non-COVID patients are paying a price as the delta variant and low-vaccination rates overwhelm hospitals across the country. “Wait times can now be measured in days,” said an expert.
Nearly 3 million consumers took advantage of a special six-month period to sign up for subsidized health insurance coverage made more affordable by the COVID-19 relief law, President Joe Biden said Wednesday.
The Census Bureau on Tuesday released its 2020 findings regarding Americans’ income, poverty and health insurance coverage.
President Joe Biden was meeting Wednesday with CEOs, other business executives and leaders to discuss his recently announced vaccine requirement for companies that employ at least 100 people.
“While we are doing our utmost, we are no longer able to provide the standard of care to each and every patient who needs our help,” Dr. Kristen Solana Walkinshaw, chief of staff at Providence Alaska Medical Center, wrote in a letter addressed to Alaskans and distributed Tuesday.
Idaho's public health officials say crisis standards of care are imminent for the state's most populated region as hospitals continue to be overrun with unvaccinated coronavirus patients.
By adding companies like Ria Health in-network, payers are looking to cut members' costly emergency department visits through chronic condition management.
Google and ProMedica's investment comes as interest in the sector grows.
The weekly testing mandate will go into effect Oct. 18 and apply to all executive branch employees, interns and contractors who haven't submitted their COVID-19 vaccination status or aren't fully vaccinated.
As of Tuesday, one in every 81 Tennesseans had tested positive for the virus in the past week, according to researchers from Johns Hopkins.
The Biden administration plans to withdraw a Trump-era rule over patient safety concerns, but it could issue a new one down the line.
COVID-19 deaths and cases in the U.S. have climbed back to levels not seen since last winter, wiping out months of progress and potentially bolstering President Joe Biden’s argument for his sweeping new vaccination requirements.
Georgia is among more than 40 states that have turned to managed-care companies to control Medicaid costs. These contracts are typically among the biggest in these states, with billions of government dollars going to insurance companies.
