Category: Healthcare Finance News

Financial incentives for hospitals spur rapid changes to opioid use disorder treatment

Hospital emergency departments not only care for patients with overdose and other complications from opioid use, but they also serve as vital touch points to engage patients into longer-term treatment. After an overdose, patients are at risk for repeat…

FDA issues emergency use authorization for Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine

On Saturday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19.

HIMSSCast: Health equity, caregiver diversity and COVID-19

Sheldon Fields of the National Black Nurses Association brings some historical context to today’s COVID-19 racial health disparities.

Biden signs executive order to spur domestic supply chain

President Joe Biden has signed a supply chain executive order that affects a broad range of materials, including pharmaceuticals.

Biden Administration secures supply of new COVID-19 therapeutic treatment

As of Friday, the Biden Administration has secured a supply of a recently authorized COVID-19 therapeutic treatment, with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense collaborating to purchase 100,000 courses of a seco…

Cigna’s Evernorth subsidiary purchasing MDLive in bid to expand telehealth services

Telehealth has come of age during the COVID-19 pandemic, and major insurer Cigna is betting on it continuing, with its healthcare services subsidiary Evernorth poised to purchase telehealth provider MDLive.
Financial terms were not disclosed, but the d…

Health plans banned from denying coverage of COVID-19 tests for asymptomatic individuals

New guidance issued by the Biden Administration today makes it clear that private group health plans cannot use medical screening criteria to deny coverage for COVID-19 diagnostic tests for members who are asymptomatic or who have no known or suspected…

Advancements in automation are cutting into the rising costs of manual healthcare transactions

Inefficiency is an issue that continues to plague many areas of healthcare, particularly when it comes to manual administrative functions. While the industry is increasingly harnessing technology — evidenced by the use of telehealth and the push for e…

Human rights law can provide a fair, transparent framework for vaccine allocations

As governments around the world wrestle with the question of designing a fair system to allocate their COVID-19 vaccine supplies for maximum protection against the pandemic, a team of researchers, led by Dr. Sharifah Sekalala of Warwick Law School, pro…

Automating ‘high level’ healthcare tasks can create high value savings

The massive amount of data available in healthcare makes it a prime area for artificial intelligence and machine learning automation.