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Centene Plans Big Medicare Advantage Expansion
The health insurer Centene plans to expand into 100 new counties and enter a new state – Nevada – to expand privatized Medicare Advantage coverage to seniors in 2020.
Insurers Making It Tough For Sanders And Warren To End Private Medicare
Health insurance companies continue to announce record growth in their Medicare Advantage businesses with UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest health insurer, announcing last week that its Medicare Advantage enrollment jumped by 400,000 seniors to …
UnitedHealth’s Optum: We’ll Lure More Providers To New Partnership Model
Executives at UnitedHealth Group’s Optum health services unit believe more medical care providers will be drawn to the company’s new strategy to take on non-clinical operations for local health systems.
UnitedHealth Group’s Medicare Advantage Enrollment Jumps 10% And Boosts Profits
UnitedHealth Group said its privatized Medicare Advantage enrollment grew by more than 10% as the company’s second-quarter profits rose and the healthcare giant increased its financial forecast for the rest of the year.
UnitedHealth’s Optum To Take Over California Health System’s Non-Clinical Operations
The deal will allow Optum to take on John Muir Health’s key administrative functions including information technology, revenue cycle management and analytics of a healthcare system that boasts a network of more than 1,000 physicians and two large hospi…
85,000 Kaiser Permanente Health Workers Threaten Strike
More than 85,000 Kaiser Permanente workers represented by several unions are threatening a strike against the multi-state health plan and medical care provider.
Doctor Pay Hits $266K For Primary Care, $443K For Specialists
Specialists’ compensation increased 4.4% to $443,881 last year from $425,136 in 2017, according to the 2019 MGMA DataDive Provider Compensation, which comes from a dataset of 147,000 providers from more than 5,800 organizations including doctor, hospit…
Doctor Pay Hits $266K For Primary Care, $443K For Specialists
Specialists’ compensation increased 4.4% to $443,881 last year from $425,136 in 2017, according to the 2019 MGMA DataDive Provider Compensation, which comes from a dataset of 147,000 providers from more than 5,800 organizations including doctor, hospit…
Trump’s Aborted Drug Pricing Rule Spares ‘Middlemen’ And The Drug Industry
The Trump administration only months ago said eliminating drug rebates would go a long way to reducing the cost of prescription drugs that the government buys for millions of Americans.
CVS, Walgreens To Lead $23 Billion CBD Market By 2023
The legal CBD market is projected to surpass $23 billion in annual sales by 2023 driven by CVS, Walgreens and other retailers, a new report from market research firm Brightfield Group shows.
