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Black, Latino Medicare patients experiencing more difficulties with daily living
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 expands ketamine-assisted therapy as nationwide employee benefit
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 creates value-based care platform
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.
CDC awards Northeastern $17.5 million for pandemic preparedness
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…
Elevance Health PBM CarelonRx to launch prescription cost savings program
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…
Feds award $600 million to bolster manufacturing of COVID-19 tests
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…
Healthcare staffing exec charged with fraudulently fixing nurse wages
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…
Select Health, Mark Cuban team to lower prescription drug costs
Salt Lake City-based Select Health and its pharmacy benefits manager Scripius will be one of the first health plans in the U.S. to provide member access to Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, meaning members will have direct access to the prescription d…
Deceptive Medicare marketing draws ire of low-income seniors
Almost everyone 65 and older has received marketing related to Medicare, but some have reported experiences with Medicare marketing that violate federal rules, including marketers asking for Social Security or Medicare numbers outside the enrollment pr…
Two health plans earn 5 stars in NCQA’s annual assessment
Two commercial health plans achieved a 5-star rating – doubling the amount from 2022 – according to the new 2023 H
