Jeff Lagasse

Operating margins at hospitals and health systems have been hit hard by the pandemic, and the Omicron surge was an additional setback as the healthcare industry continued to struggle at the beginning of the year.

The American Hospital Association is prompting the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice to update its merger guidelines, in response to a request by the two federal agencies for comments and suggestions on how to overhaul the mer…

The American Hospital Association has launched what it calls the Health Equity Roadmap, a framework meant to provide customized resources and action plans for health systems looking to become more equitable and eliminate structural barriers to health.

“Break into the Boardroom,” a program designed to promote greater representation of female healthcare executives in corporate boardrooms, has identified and trained more than 220 women healthcare leaders and helped place 56 of its alumni and program af…

UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum will combine with in-home healthcare service provider LHC Group, with UHG purchasing the latter for about $5.4 billion.
LHC provides healthcare services in the home for a demographic of mostly older patients dealing …

There are several legislative proposals in Congress, some stalled and some nascent, that would propose a $35 per-month cap on what insured Americans would pay out-of-pocket for insulin – and this cap in costs would benefit about 25% of those on individ…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit recently sided with United Behavioral Health in a decision reversing a lower court ruling ordering the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary to reprocess thousands of claims for mental health coverage.
In 2019, pla…

The American Hospital Association has expressed concerns about violence against healthcare workers, telling U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in a letter this week that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the issue.

During the first 12 months of President Joe Biden’s administration, close to 6 million new consumers signed up for coverage through the federal marketplace during the open and special enrollment periods, according to new data published by the Centers f…

Slightly more than 40% of family physicians were named in a malpractice lawsuit in 2021, and while that number is significant, it’s an eight percentage-point decrease from two years prior, according to new data published by Medscape.