Jeff Lagasse

Million dollar claims per million covered employees rose 15% in the past year and 45% over the past four years, according to a new report from Sun Life. And one-fifth of employers had at least one member with more than $1 million in claims from 2018 th…

CVS Health said this week it’s adding mental health screenings to Project Health, the company’s free, community-based health screening program. 
It will kick-start its mental health screenings in Greensboro, North Carolina and Petersburg, Virginia. Ove…

Humana has reached an agreement with two national organizations to provide Durable Medical Equipment (DME) services to help Humana Medicare Advantage HMO members receive home healthcare.
The national DME providers, AdaptHealth and Rotech Healthcare, wi…

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has reached an agreement with Florida-based MCR Health to resolve a disability discrimination complaint from a deaf patient who claimed she was not provided adequate supports.

Almost one-third (31%) of physicians practicing in the U.S. have been hit with a medical liability claim at least once during their careers, with the risk of having a claim filed against them increasing the longer they practice, according to new survey…

A diagnosis claims-based algorithm used by payers to decide whether pediatric patients need to be taken to the emergency department has been promoted as a way to cut healthcare costs. But according to a new JAMA Network Open study, this algorithm will …

Seventeen health systems, including Cleveland Clinic and Advocate Health, have pledged a commitment to make 10% of all new hires “impact hires” – meaning employees hired from economically disadvantaged areas.

At the tail end of March, a ruling by a federal judge in Texas invalidated much of the Affordable Care Act’s coverage of preventive care without cost sharing, but a new survey from the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions showed that ab…

Insurtech Oscar Health signaled during an earnings call on Tuesday that it will be exiting California’s individual market beginning next year, with CEO Mark Bertolini saying the plan has fallen short of the company’s goals.

Thanks in part to a 25% increase in revenue for Optum, UnitedHealth Group saw $5.6 billion in earnings during the first quarter of the year, and $91.3 billion in revenue, both far and above other major insurers, according to the company’s financial res…