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Category: Healthcare Finance News
CVS Health highlights new platform connecting at-risk Aetna plan members to social services
The tool, called Destination: Health, was built from a collaboration with social services-focused software maker Unite Us and will roll across certain Aetna plans later this year.
Seema Verma, Jared Kushner tout new physician-focused MyHealthEData project
The Blue Button API pilot, Data at the Point of Care, aims to connect clinicians with claims data, giving them deeper insights into their patients’ care history.
FTC’s $5 billion penalty for Facebook security lapses include new health privacy restrictions
The fine is the largest ever imposed on any company for violating consumers’ privacy, according to the FTC.
Healthcare’s number one financial issue is cybersecurity
The cost of a healthcare breach is about $408 per patient record and that doesn’t include the loss of business, productivity and reputation.
Senate Finance drug pricing bill faces opposition in full Senate
Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act passes in bipartisan effort in committee, but full Senate approval may mean bill modifications.
CMS proposed rule requires hospitals to make public their payer-specific negotiated charges
CMS Administrator Seema Verma says administration is not afraid of legal push-back from providers or payers.
Women and minorities underrepresented in emergency medicine, new research shows
Less than a quarter of newly certified paramedics are female, and only about 5 percent of EMTs self-identify as black.
Volume and value of healthcare mergers and acquisitions increase during second quarter
Despite the robust quarter, none of the transactions were considered "mega-deals," valued at $5 billion or more.
Massachusetts global payment experiment yields encouraging results on medical spending, quality
One of the largest private insurance plans to use population-based global budgets achieved success in slowing spending growth.
