Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has become the latest insurer seeking to better manage the risk of patients afflicted with permanent kidney failure, with such patients now eligible to enroll in Medicare Advantage plans for the first time.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced they are pausing the Johnson & Johnson vaccine due to concerns of several rare blood clotting cases in individuals who have received the vaccine.
Post-acute home-based care provider onehome is partnering with Medicare Advantage company Devoted Health to expand care to the latter’s members in Arizona, Ohio and San Antonio, Texas.
The goal of the partnership is to enhance care by enabling members …
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a proposed rule that updates hospice base payments and the aggregate cap amount for 2022.
As proposed, hospices would see a 2.3%, or $530 million increase in their payments for FY 2022. The pro…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a proposed rule that would update Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities under the Skilled Nursing Facility prospective payment system for fiscal year 2022.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth was more of a novelty than a necessity. The concept of touching base with a doctor remotely was promising, but there were hurdles.
Now, though, with many of those hurdles at least temporarily lifted — due to po…
In a new partnership with Intermountain Healthcare, the University of Utah will be offering a new population health program focused on preemptive care.
Advocate Aurora Enterprises, Advocate Aurora Health’s new subsidiary, is expanding its suite of senior care services with the acquisition of in-home care company, Senior Helpers.
Through its over 320 franchised and corporate-owned locations in the Uni…
Americans are getting COVID-19 vaccinations at a steady clip, but national inoculation efforts hit a snag this week as two different vaccination sites, one in North Carolina and one in Colorado, shut down temporarily after an abnormal number of adverse…