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HHS seeks to enhance care for substance use disorder
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through its Office for Civil Rights and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), has finalized modifications to the Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Recor…
Amazon’s One Medical is closing corporate offices
Amazon-owned One Medical has confirmed that it is closing several of its offices in a move intended to cut costs, with offices in New York, New York, Minneapolis, Minnesota and St. Petersburg, Florida set to shutter their doors by the end of February.
New Calibrate CEO seeks to strengthen partnership with Optum Rx
Rob MacNaughton has been named new chief executive officer of Calibrate, a clinician-guided, value-based obesity treatment program, and one of his first missions will be to solidify a relationship with Optum Rx as a strategic partner during the company…
FDA considers extending RSV vaccine to adults in their 50s
Vaccinations for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), an upper respiratory virus that typically thrives in colder weather, may soon extend to adults in their 50s thanks to a priority review granted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Increased Medicare Advantage utilization likely credit neutral, finds Fitch
Rising Medicare Advantage utilization among older U.S. adults, as well as rate cuts for 2025, are likely to be credit-neutral to the healthcare industry, according to analysts at Fitch Ratings.
ACL final rule updates to Older Americans Act regulations
The Administration for Community Living has released a final rule that updates regulations for implementing its Older Americans Act (OAA) programs for the first time since 1988, aiming to better support the national aging network that delivers OAA serv…
Telehealth utilization on the rise nationally
Telehealth utilization increased nationally and in every U.S. census region in November 2023, according to FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. The widespread increases followed a month of varied changes in October.
HRSA seeking to reform organ transplant system
The Health Resources and Services Administration is leveraging new legal authority proposed in the President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget, issuing requests for proposals in advance of executing multiple different contract awards meant to increase co…
Vermont ACO model ties payer and provider payment to quality of care
Nestled between New Hampshire and upstate New York, Vermont is a quiet, mostly rural state.
But it’s the site of a federal test of an alternative payment model in which the most significant payers from throughout the state – Medicare, Medicaid, and co…
Centene pulls in $45 million in profit in Q4
The final quarter of 2022 saw Centene pull in $45 million in profit while total revenue hit about $39.5 billion, the company revealed in its latest earnings report.
That’s an improvement over Q4 2022, in which the organization experienced a $213 millio…
