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Gap growing between best- and worst-performing health plans
For employees enrolled in commercial health insurance plans, the quality of their overall healthcare experience is largely dependent on the insurers with whom their employers have contracted, but their satisfaction with their plan is not dependent.
Medicare Advantage struggling under payment, utilization concerns
Medicare Advantage is in an awkward place. On the one hand, the alternative to traditional Medicare is still popular among consumers, who have been lured by the promises of lower out-of-pocket costs and increased supplemental benefits.
Centene partners on affordable housing
The Centene Foundation, Centene’s philanthropic arm, is teaming with affordable housing developer McCormack Baron Salazar (MBS) on a multiyear partnership to construct new affordable housing communities in eight states.
Under the partnership, the Found…
Express Scripts, CPESN making push to support independent pharmacies
Express Scripts, the pharmacy benefits services business of The Cigna Group’s Evernorth, has entered into a collaboration with CPESN USA, a network of pharmacy providers that delivers health services, to provide support to independent and community pha…
Fink joins CVS Health as senior vice president
Former American Express executive Kristina Fink has joined CVS Health as its new senior vice president, corporate secretary and chief governance officer, according to a LinkedIn post.
CDC asks health officials to screen for bird flu
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is once again sounding the alarm bell on bird flu, and is asking health officials in all 50 states to continue monitoring the prevalence of H5N1 infections even during the warmer months.
Cityblock, Centene form primary care partnership in Florida
Medicaid value-based primary care company Cityblock is teaming with Florida-based Sunshine Health, a Centene subsidiary, to provide primary care and care coordination services to high-need, hard-to-reach Medicaid members in 11 Central Florida counties….
Optum Rx pharmacy pricing model aims for transparency
A new pharmacy model from Optum Rx called Clear Trend Guarantee is seeking to increase transparency around drug costs for members.
The pharmacy services arm of UnitedHealth Group’s Optum, Optum Rx is promising that its price-centered offering will offe…
Mental health inequities resulting in billions in expenses, Deloitte finds
Mental health inequities may not only harm individuals but also hinder economic prosperity.
A new Deloitte analysis projects mental health inequities could total about $478 billion in avoidable costs throughout the rest of this year.
Cleveland Clinic to pay $7.6 million after False Claims Act allegation
The Cleveland Clinic is paying $7.6 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting federal grant applications and progress reports to the National Institutes of Health that failed to disclose information about a key …
