While patients reported they enjoyed home-based primary care, the Independence at Home payment incentive hasn't led to program savings.
Telehealth utilization overall rose slightly in September, but COVID-19's prevalence as a top condition receiving virtual treatment is declining.
The same way you guard against COVID-19 caused by any other variant.
A number of Ohio area medical facilities have been purchased by out-of-state investors — and interest in the properties locally seems like it will only increase, market participants say.
Detroit Medical Center quietly ended its kidney transplant program last month, leaving at least 146 patients on its transplant wait list to seek care at other health systems.
Nick Stefanizzi, CEO of Northwell Direct, joins The Check Up to provide insight into direct network contracting.
The number of underinsured children grew by 2.4 million from 2016 to 2019, bringing the number of kids with inadequate coverage to 23.7 million.
The edict expands on previous requirements that tied employment to proof of vaccination status.
President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, told CNN's "State of the Union" that scientists need more information before drawing conclusions about omicron's severity.
Drugstores are normally busy this time of year with flu shots and other vaccines, but now pharmacists are doling out a growing number of COVID-19 shots and giving coronavirus tests.
The arrival of the omicron variant of the coronavirus in the U.S. has health officials in some communities reviving contact tracing operations in an attempt to slow and better understand its spread as scientists study how contagious it is and whether it can thwart vaccines.
The arrival of omicron comes as hospitals statewide continue to strain under a surge in coronavirus cases, most traced to the delta variant, along with staffing shortages.
The plan holds approximately $15 billion in assets contributed by employees and matched by UnitedHealth Group
Trinity Health sold its interests in the health plan to Highmark Health for $127 million in August.
The contract hinges on a pledge by the governor to devote up to $35 million annually for the union’s health fund.
The voluntary adjustments were announced as the systems are seeing "unprecedented" demand for inpatient care across their facilities and a significant increase in unvaccinated patients being hospitalized due to COVID.
The gross profit from PBM-owned mail order and specialty pharmacies grew to $10.1 billion in 2019, up 13% from $8.9 billion in 2017.
A research group has been tracking reinfections in South Africa and reported a jump with the arrival of omicron that they hadn't seen when two previous variants.
HHS found Medicare telehealth flexibilities led to 63-fold increase in utilitization in 2020.
President Joe Biden framed his latest plan for fighting COVID-19 as an opportunity to at last put an end to divisiveness over the virus, calling the politicization of the issue a “sad, sad commentary.”
If we have enough combined data at our fingertips, we can shorten the time it takes to solve emerging and pressing medical questions as they unfold. This is where hospitals play a critical role.
The surge of COVID-19 cases dampened healthcare job growth in November. Employment was effectively flat from October.
Physician assistants are pushing to be renamed “physician associates,” complaining their title is belittling and doesn’t convey what they do. “We don’t assist,” they insist. Doctors’ groups fear there’s more than just a name in play.
Oklahoma has enrolled over 200,000 people in Medicaid so far, while Missouri has enrolled fewer. Why are two such similar states handling the public insurance rollout so differently?
Nearly 2,000 terminally ill Californians have used a 2015 law to end their lives with a doctor’s assistance. A revision of the law will make it easier to do so.
Measures used to counter the delta variant should remain the foundation for fighting the coronavirus pandemic, even in the face of the new omicron version of the virus, World Health Organization officials said Friday, while acknowledging that the travel restrictions imposed by some countries may buy time.
Multiple cases of the omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in New York, health officials said Thursday, including a man who attended an anime convention in Manhattan in late November and tested positive for the variant when he returned home to Minnesota.
