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California awards Medi-Cal contracts to five insurers
The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has joined with five commercial managed care plans (MCPs) in an agreement to deliver Medi-Cal services to Medi-Cal managed care members in 21 counties across the state starting in January 2024.
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ATA applauds telehealth provisions in omnibus bill; Amazon moves closer to One Medical acquisition
Congress has passed an omnibus appropriations bill. How does this affect telehealth? We’ll start the year off right by answering that and other questions in this week’s Top Stories, such as: How close is Amazon to sealing the One Medical deal? And is t…
OIG suggests CMS should help drugmakers calculate Medicare Part B drug prices
In the midst of physician concerns that Part B drug reimbursements are too low, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) is suggesting the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services guide drugmakers in calculating …
Hospitals still in the red despite improving margins
Hospitals struggled with their margins in 2022, and even though those margins improved during the month of November, they remained negative for the first 11 months of the year, according to data published in Kaufman Hall’s latest flash report.
RN turnover in healthcare on the rise
The “Great Resignation” is evident in healthcare with hospital turnover on the rise, which brings with it its own set of costs and challenges that have hospital leaders looking at ways to reduce their turnover rates.
Hint Connect expands direct primary care network in Colorado with Nextera Healthcare
Digital Health company Hint Health, which is involved in the direct primary care (DPC) movement, has announced a partnership between Nextera Healthcare, Colorado’s first DPC provider and one of the fastest-growing DPC organizations in the U.S., and the…
LCMC Health acquires three hospitals from HCA for $150 million
The Louisiana Department of Justice has given final approval to a deal in which LCMC Health has purchased three hospitals in Tulane, Louisiana from HCA Healthcare for about $150 million.
The New Orleans-based nonprofit now boasts nine hospitals after a…
RSV still challenging for nation’s physicians
Physicians are still seeing significant levels of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus, or RSV, with the viral threat straining hospital emergency rooms, according to survey data from InCrowd.
Cases of the respiratory infection are expected to continue to c…
HHS looks to increase healthcare ownership transparency
Prompted by President Biden’s Executive Order on promoting competition, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is releasing ownership data for all Medicare-certified hospitals.
HHS increases Tamiflu access through Strategic National Stockpile
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, is making additional supply of Tamiflu available to jurisdictions to respond to an increased demand for the antiviral during this flu …
