Security breaches can happen outside of the four walls of a hospital.
Category: Healthcare Finance News
Allscripts pays $145 million to settle Practice Fusion civil and criminal investigation
Despite reporting strong second quarter bookings increases of 31% over the previous year, Allscripts had a second quarter net loss of $150 million.
Medicare to cover expensive CAR T-cell cancer therapy, but questions remain on full cost to hospitals
The therapy costs $375,000 or $475,000, with hospital stays due to adverse effects adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to care.
IPA, insurer launch innovative new partnership to manage social determinants of health
Healthy Alliance IPA, led by former ONC deputy Dr. Jacob Reider, will work with MVP Health Care to connect social services and healthcare providers via the Unite Us technology platform.
Humana and ADVault expand MyDirectives for advance care planning
Medicare began reimbursing physicians for advance-care planning counseling in 2016, but only about a third of adults have such a document.
Aetna helps drive CVSHealth’s 175% net income increase for quarter
CVSHealth continues to make inroads into traditional healthcare, with HealthHUBS in 1,500 locations by 2021.
CVSHealth uses analytics to expand diabetes program, launch hypertension model
The goal is to reduce the incidence of diabetes in a given population by 58% in three years.
Anthem’s PBM IngenioRx is attracting outside insurers
In the build-out of IngenioRx, Anthem has opened a 24/7 pharmacy care center in Las Vegas that will offer dedicated specialty patient care.
California earthquakes highlight need to make evacuation decisions quickly
Ridgecrest Regional spent $72 million on a building that withstood an earthquake, but broken water pipes forced an evacuation anyway.
CMS increases wage index for rural hospitals
The rule increases new technology add-on payment from 50 to 65% for cases with high costs involving eligible new technologies.
