Emergency doctors and nurses in Michigan are seeing a massive increase in patients seeking care in hospital EDs, a mixture of ailments not seen before in previous COVID-19 surges.
Top brass at Blue Cross of Illinois' parent company got big raises last year, as health insurers emerged largely unscathed from the economic fallout of the pandemic.
CMS said the Trump administration should not have approved its more than $100 billion request without going through the usual notice and comment period.
There's revenue and potentially better outcomes to gain when a hospital fills patient prescriptions at their own in-house specialty pharmacy. But most patients are now covered by insurers who have vertically integrated a specialty pharmacy as subsidiaries.