Jeff Lagasse

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.

Los Angeles-based Cedars Sinai investigators have developed an artificial intelligence technology that’s expected to make it easier to predict whether a person will have a heart attack, the system said this week.

Moderna said it’s planning to submit a request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to authorize a low-dose COVID-19 vaccine for children under 6 years old, part of a push to inoculate the 18 million American children under 5 who are not yet eligib…