Category: Healthcare Finance News

CMS delays ACO Track of the Community Health Access and Rural Transformation Model 

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is delaying the ACO Track of the Community Health Access and Rural Transformation Model, to the disappointment of the National Association of ACOs.
CMS gave no reason for the delay from this spring to spri…

Cleveland Clinic, IBM launch 10-year quantum computing partnership

The collaboration, focused on high-performance cloud computing and artificial intelligence for healthcare and life science research, will see an IBM 1,000-plus qubit system deployed in Cleveland.

California hospitals sue attorney general over affiliation conditions

Two California hospitals, Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai and Pasadena-based Huntington Hospital, have filed a lawsuit challenging the conditions for approval of their affiliation that were imposed by the state attorney general. The proposed affiliation…

Strategies emerge for better managing healthcare systems during pandemics

Healthcare systems could save lives and minimize losses by optimizing resource allocation and implementing mitigation strategies, according to two new studies. 
Colorado State University researchers explored how healthcare systems might perform under m…

Amazon lands EUA for COVID-19 test with home sample collection

According to FDA documents, the test is intended to help stop the spread of COVID-19 among Amazon employees.

DOJ investigating UnitedHealth’s $13B acquisition of Change

The U.S. Department of Justice is pursuing an investigation of UnitedHealthcare Group’s $13 billion acquisition of data analytics company Change Healthcare, spurred in part by a letter sent to regulators this month by the American Hospital Association …

Spread of coronavirus from lab is extremely unlikely, WHO report says

The introduction of the coronavirus through a laboratory incident is considered an “extremely unlikely pathway,” for the origin of the virus, according to a report released Tuesday by the World Health Organization’s joint international team.
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COVID-19 ratcheting up demand for virtual behavioral healthcare, Cigna finds

The COVID-19 pandemic is increasing the demand for telehealth, driving consumers to increasingly seek virtual care options, and this is extending to behavioral health services, according to a new report from health insurer Cigna.

HIMSSCast: What the new info blocking rules mean for you — with Deven McGraw

Ciitizen’s Deven McGraw, formerly of OCR and ONC, breaks down the big health policy changes coming our way.

American Hospital Association urges CMS to rescind mid-build denials

The American Hospital Association is imploring the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to rescind recent denials of hospital requests for a mid-build exception to the site-neutral payment policy, according to a letter sent last week.