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As Coronavirus Surges, Walgreens Healthcare Sales Jump But Store Foot Traffic Is Down
Walgreens U. S. sales of health and wellness products jumped more than 30% in March but stores are seeing “negative foot traffic” as the Coronavirus strain COVID-19 spreads around the world.
Anthem Blue Cross Plans Will Waive Out-Of-Pocket Costs For Coronavirus Treatment
Anthem is the latest health insurer to waive customer cost-sharing and co-payments for all treatments related to the Coronavirus strain COVID-19.
Medical Device Makers Vow 5,000 To 7,000 Ventilators A Week
Makers of ventilators say they will ramp up production of the respiratory devices to between 5,000 and 7,000 a week “in the coming weeks” as the number of sick patients from the Coronavirus strain COVID-19 spreads across the U.S.
Walgreens Earnings Could Be Key Barometer Of U.S. Coronavirus Response
Walgreens Boots Alliance quarterly earnings could be a key early barometer of how the U. S. healthcare system is holding up to the spread of the Coronavirus strain COVID-19.
UnitedHealthcare Latest To Waive Patient Out-Of-Pocket Costs For Coronavirus Treatment
UnitedHealth Group’s UnitedHealthcare is “waiving member cost-sharing for the treatment of COVID-19” through May 31 for its fully-insured commercial, Medicare Advantage and Medicaid plans.”
Cigna, Humana Waive Patient Out-Of-Pocket Costs For All Coronavirus Treatment
Health insurers Cigna and Humana are waiving customer cost-sharing and co-payments for all treatments related to the Coronavirus strain COVID-19.
U.S. Approves Abbott Labs Five-Minute ‘Rapid’ Coronavirus Test
Abbott Laboratories won U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for its molecular test for the Coronavirus strain COVID-19, which the company says can deliver “positive results in as little as five minutes and negative results in 13 minutes.”
UnitedHealth Group To Roll Out Coronavirus Test To 46,000 Doctors
UnitedHealth Group will roll out a patient-administered test for the Coronavirus strain COVID-19 to 46,000 physicians, the company said Thursday, March 26, 2020.
Study: Patients Can Do Their Own Coronavirus Tests Without Exposing Health Workers
A study funded by UnitedHealth Group shows people can self-administer a diagnostic test with a much smaller swab, a process that should save hundreds of thousands of clinicians from being exposed to the virus while at the same time making the testing s…
CVS To Waive Co-Pays For Aetna Member Coronavirus Hospitalizations
CVS Health said it will waive co-payments and related out-of-pocket cost-sharing of commercially insured Aetna members’ “inpatient admissions related to” the Coronavirus strain COVID-19.
