Tennessee-based TeamHealth Holdings has won a lawsuit against UnitedHealthcare, which alleged the insurer’s shared savings plan encouraged the underpayment or termination of physician contracts. The suit claimed UHC underpaid on 11,000 claims for a tot…
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments today in the case involving 340B payments for hospitals’ outpatient drugs.
Protection against COVID-19 infection following inoculation from the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine begins to gradually wane over time, particularly 90 days after receiving the second dose, strengthening the case for booster shots, according to new findings p…
Looking at new data published on its Medicare Advantage members, major insurer Humana found that those MA patients receiving value-based care had better outcomes overall, along with lower costs and more preventative care.
Chipmaker NVIDIA announced the launch of FLARE (Federated Learning Application Runtime Environment), an open-source software platform offering a common computing foundation designed to improve collaboration on AI model development in healthcare.
Venture capital investment in global healthtech companies is projected to reach $42 billion by the end of the year, according to Silicon Valley Bank’s latest report, “The Future of HealthTech.”
The first three quarters of 2021 closed with what SVB call…
The World Health Organization has declared the new COVID-19 variant Omicron a “Variant of Concern.”
The WHO Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution convened on Friday to assess the variant that was first reported to WHO from South Afric…
Insurer Humana and nonprofit healthcare system Allina Health are expanding their existing agreement to focus on value-based care for Humana’s Medicare Advantage members in Minnesota, the organizations said this week.
The multiyear agreement, which take…
Labor shortages and supply chain challenges are a rising threat to profit margins for U.S. healthcare and pharmaceutical companies, according to a new report from Fitch Ratings.
The average amount is $170,700, with payments ranging from $500 to $43 million.
