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HIMSSCast: One clinical data set for payers and providers
CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield, in partnership with MRO, has a clinical digital exchange platform that both payers and providers can access.
ERs in limbo after Supreme Court ruling on emergency abortion care
The Supreme Court has ruled that abortions for life saving care in Idaho is legal, at least for now.
This means that hospitals and emergency room physicians don’t have to second guess whether the care they’re providing is criminal, but the SCOTUS decis…
Geisinger reports data of 1.2 million patients may have been exposed
Geisinger’s data breach may have exposed the personal data of 1.2 million patients, according to the Department of Human Services Office for Civil Rights Breach Portal.
HFMA: The top issues facing CFOs
LAS VEGAS – Value-based care and reimbursement challenges, higher costs and especially margin improvement were on the minds of CFOs who spoke about their top concerns during a panel discussion at the HFMA Annual Conference.
Optum drops out of Steward deal
Optum is no longer pursuing a deal to buy the Steward Health Care physician group, according to the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission.
Optum has informed the Health Policy Commission that it is no longer working to finalize an agreement with Stewa…
Walgreens to shutter up to 25% of retail stores nationwide
Walgreens plans to shutter up to 25% of its retail stores that are unprofitable, CEO Tim Wentworth said June 27 during the business’s Q3 earnings call.
Walgreens stores drive $27 billion of retail sales, Wentworth said.
Dialysis providers get a 2.2% payment boost
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is giving renal dialysis services a 2.2% pay increase for 2025 in a proposed rule under the End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System.
The challenges facing children’s and rural hospitals
LAS VEGAS – Children’s and rural hospitals have the same challenges as any other health system and face issues specific to them.
RCM accelerates cash and secures financial health
Financial pressures are forcing healthcare leaders to evaluate their revenue cycle management and how digital transformation can help.
Arkansas sues Optum, Express Scripts and others over opioid epidemic
The state of Arkansas is suing Optum, OptumRx and parent company UnitedHealth Group, Cigna’s Evernorth and its pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, and others over the opioid epidemic.
The complaint was filed June 24 in the Circuit Court of Pulask…
