Jeff Lagasse

ORLANDO – Healthcare Information Technology now enables Personal Health Information, or PHI, to be accessed immediately and directly by patients, but there are complex regulatory requirements around the sharing of patient data that affect all parties –…

Anthem plans to rebrand with a new name, Elevance Health, provided the change is approved by shareholders, the insurer said this week. The new name is meant to underscore the company’s focus on “elevating” whole health, according to the announcement.

The Department of Health and Human Services, through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Office of Minority Health, will provide close to $35 million in funding toward strengthening and expanding mental health services…

As a concept, Medicare Advantage isn’t new. Originally known as Medicare Plus Choice, it was passed with bipartisan support under the Clinton Administration with an eye toward giving seniors another option for receiving Medicare benefits. Flash forward…

A little over a month ago, Scripps Health made a plea to patients in San Diego: Be kind to healthcare workers. They’re exhausted, they’re burned out, and they increasingly have to deal with demeaning and verbally abusive comments from patients.

A group of 72 healthcare organizations, including the American Telemedicine Association and the American Psychiatric Association, has penned a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration and Department of Health and Human Services asking the agencies…

CVS Health has filed for a trademark that would allow it to sell goods and services in the metaverse, according to a document filed with the U.S. Patent Trade Office.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is taking legal action against COVID-19 testing laboratory GS Labs to recover more than $10 million in alleged overpayments made since the start of the pandemic.
The complaint, filed last week in the U.S. Distric…

The deadline for 100% reimbursement from FEMA’s Public Assistance Program for COVID-19 costs is now July 1 after President Joe Biden pushed the deadline back from April 1, as outlined in a White House memorandum this week.

This week, the U.S. Senate passed legislation meant to end the federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs, a Biden administration policy that was upheld by the Supreme Court in January.