Jeff Lagasse

Average premiums, benefits, and plan choices for Medicare Advantage and the Medicare Part D prescription drug program will remain stable in 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has said.

Michigan-based Trinity Health is the recipient of $12.5 million through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that aims to prevent type 2 diabetes and reduce disparities.
The grant will allow Trinity Health to star…

There’s a lack of alignment across commercial, Medicare and Medicaid plans regarding coverage of digital medicine, and this is throwing a wrench into the progression of digitally enabled care, according to an issue brief posted by the American Medical …

Black and/or Latino Medicare beneficiaries are more likely than white beneficiaries to report difficulty managing activities of daily living (ADLs), according to a databook released by ATI Advisory with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Enthea, which bills itself as the only licensed provider of health benefit plans that cover medication-assisted therapies, is making ketamine-assisted therapy available across the U.S. as an employee benefit.

CommonSpirit Health has launched a national value-based services platform, Population Health Services Organization (PHSO), focused on expanding access to equitable care, improving quality and outcomes and lowering the cost of care.

Northeastern University in Boston will receive $15.5 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over the next five years to create an innovation center designed to help detect and prepare the country for the next outbreak of infectious…

CarelonRx, the pharmacy benefit manager for Elevance Health, will launch a new cost savings program called EnsureRx, which will automatically compare prices of select covered generic medications against a variety of cash discount cards and apply the lo…

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, will invest $600 million across 12 domestic COVID-19 test manufacturers to bolster production. COVIDTests.org will reopen, and togethe…

A federal grand jury in Las Vegas returned an indictment last week charging a healthcare staffing executive with conspiring to fix the wages of Las Vegas nurses – and then fraudulently concealing that conspiracy, and the government’s investigation so t…