Health insurer Humana announced a new brand this week, CenterWell, which encompasses and connects a range of the company’s payer-agnostic healthcare services offerings. The first Humana-owned care services to adopt the new brand will be its senior-focu…
Brookdale Senior Living allegedly submitted false staffing information that led to “undeserved higher star ratings.”
Documentation burden is a common problem with modern electronic health record systems. EHRs have been linked to many benefits, from improving care quality and reducing prescription errors to facilitating biomedical research. But documentation burden is…
A long-term look at Medicare patients shows that Black patients who have an ischemic stroke (blocked blood flow to the brain) die at a higher rate than white patients, even after accounting for preexisting health conditions, according to preliminary re…
Trinity’s cost-saving measures, its investment returns and funds from the Provider Relief Fund helped the health system regain its financial footing.
Last fall, nearly half of older adults were on the fence about COVID-19 vaccination — or at least taking a wait-and-see attitude, according to a University of Michigan poll taken at the time.
But a new follow-up poll shows that 71% of people in their …
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed a lawsuit this week against health insurer Centene, alleging that company subsidiary Buckeye Health Plan utilized a web of subcontractors for the provision of pharmacy benefits in order to misrepresent pharmacy cos…
Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor was forced to delay construction of a new hospital last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but with cases down and vaccines being distributed, the academic health system is resuming plans to build the $920 million facility.
The trend is likely linked to public health measures instituted during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as masking and social distancing.
The model aims to ensure appropriate levels of care for beneficiaries while increasing EMS efficiency and lowering associated costs.
