Category: Healthcare Finance News

HFMA’s first Black chair tells finance leaders to focus on diversity, inclusion and health equity

Healthcare Financial Management Association Chair Tammie L. Jackson called on healthcare finance leaders to focus on reducing healthcare disparities and promoting health equity, during HFMA’s Annual Conference held this week in Minneapolis and online.

Nonprofit health plans focus on reducing premiums, expanding benefits

Nonprofit payers have used a variety of strategies to address plan affordability throughout the next year, including reducing premiums by as much as 10% in some instances, finds a new report from the Alliance of Community Health Plans.

Anthem to acquire long-term care plan Integra Managed Care

Anthem announced Wednesday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Integra Managed Care, a managed long-term care plan in New York that provides assistance to adults with long-term care needs and disabilities — ideally allowing them to live s…

New York and Minnesota get millions in additional American Rescue Plan funds

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is providing approximately $750 million in additional funding to New York State and $100 to Minnesota in 2022 to support the Essential Plan and MinnesotaCare, the respective states’  Basic Health Programs….

Anthem, Somatus partner on multiyear kidney care collaboration

Services are available to members in Medicare Advantage plans now and in ESKD Chronic Special Needs Plans starting January 1.

Biden Administration invests $650 million in rapid diagnostic testing

In a bid to increase access to COVID-19 testing and bolster domestic manufacturing of the tests, President Joe Biden’s administration, through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will invest $650 million from the American Rescue Plan to s…

People who spread vaccine misinformation are ‘criminals’ says Pfizer CEO 

Pfizer and BioNTech are seeking an amended EUA to give the booster vaccine to all individuals 18 and older.

Online self-scheduling engages patients, eases workloads and increases appointment numbers

The revenue cycle automation enabled Baptist Health Care to quadruple the number of diagnostic appointments made online.

More than 200 hospitals participate in HHS program targeting maternal, infant health outcomes

HHS said it’s the first program to evaluate how pregnancy affects overall population health by linking inpatient data of newborns to their mothers.

Coalition of attorneys general move to block New Jersey hospital merger

Decision against Hackensack Meridian Health and Englewood Health deal should be upheld, group tells federal appeals court.