Category: Healthcare Finance News

Trends 2025: Medicare Advantage prospects strong despite challenges

The past couple of years have seen the sharp ascendancy of Medicare Advantage to now include more than half of all beneficiaries with Medicare coverage.
The alternative to the traditional fee-for-service Medicare has proven popular with consumers due t…

Luigi Mangione indicted on first degree murder charge

A grand jury in New York has indicted Luigi Mangione on charges of first degree murder, in furtherance of terrorism, in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. said Mangione faces a maxi…

Nebraska sues Change Healthcare over ransomware attack

The Nebraska Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group and its subsidiaries Change Healthcare and Optum, claiming the companies violated state laws on consumer protection after a massive ransomware attack in February exposed perso…

Trends 2025: Telehealth’s future faces a Friday deadline

The future of telehealth and acute hospital care at home hangs on a spending bill that must be approved by the end of this week.
Three big provisions in the spending bill need to pass for providers to continue to use flexibilities first made available …

Texas sues physician for prescribing abortion drugs via telehealth

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued a New York doctor for providing abortion-inducing drugs to Texas residents in violation of that state’s law.

Centene projects $166.5 billion in revenue next year

During its Investor Day last week, Centene released its earnings guidance and projected between $166.5 and $169.5 billion in revenue for 2025, representing slight growth year-over-year.

Children’s Medical expands with new patient tower

Children’s Medical Center Plano in Texas, part of Children’s Health, has just opened a 395,000-square-foot patient tower, with the expansion tripling the campus’s bed capacity, the health system said.

UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty addresses backlash against insurer

In an op-ed published in The New York Times on Friday, UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty addressed the backlash against the insurer following the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Trends 2025: The future of physician hiring

Heading into 2025, the physician shortage is no better than in past years and in fact, is continuing to worsen, according to Carey Goryl, CEO of the Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR). 

HIMSSCast: The next big investment in patient experience is the CRM

For hospitals to fully understand the patient experience, integration of the clinical, financial and communications sides of the patient journey is needed, according to Kelly Arduino, Healthcare Industry Leader at Wipfli.
The electronic health record h…