Meta Platforms is facing a potential class-action lawsuit for allegedly using its Pixel tracking tool to get patient information from hospital portals for target marketing purposes.
Today’s Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v. Wade has implications for health insurance coverage, according to healthinsurance.org
The 6-3 ruling that unwinds close to 50 years of a woman’s right to an abortion now leaves that decision to individu…
The Supreme Court has overturned 49 years of a women’s constitutional right to an abortion in siding today with Mississippi Department of Health Officer Thomas E. Dobbs in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear UnitedHealthcare’s challenge to a federal rule stipulating insurers offering Medicare Advantage plans refund payments based on unsupported diagnoses in patients’ medical records.
Optum announced it’s launching a laboratory benefit management solution designed to help health plans reduce unnecessary lab testing and ensure their members receive appropriate, high-quality tests.
The potential savings for health plans range from $12…
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure is pushing for Congress to extend Affordable Care Act tax subsidies made possible by American Rescue Plan funds.
The subsidies are scheduled to expire at the end of 2022.
Former Optum executive Matt Nyquist has joined Lifespark as its chief population health officer and will lead the design, development and management of the company’s global risk products and market expansion. In an announcement, Lifespark framed the mo…
About 253,000 parents have gained access to 12 months of postpartum coverage through Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program extensions, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services. It’s part of the current administratio…
CVS Health will be expanding its Project Health program, which provides free, community-based health screenings, by moving into two new geographic regions – Las Vegas, Nevada and Richmond, Virginia.
Total 2023 payments to all end-stage renal disease facilities would increase 3.1%, compared with 2022, under the End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System proposed rule that the Centers for Medicare and Med