Category: Healthcare Finance News

Cigna teaming with Carrot on fertility access

The Global Health Benefits (GHB) business of Cigna Healthcare’s International Health division is partnering with Carrot Fertility to provide personalized support, education and guidance for eligible GHB customers and their covered spouses/partners who …

CMS cutting four Medicare payment models

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is planning on ending four payment models by the end of the year in a bid to achieve a projected $750 million in savings, though the agency did not say where the savings would take place.

CMS cutting four Medicare payment models

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is planning on ending four payment models by the end of the year in a bid to achieve a projected $750 million in savings, though the agency did not say where the savings would take place.

Seema Verma is ‘excited about progress’ of Oracle’s EHR modernization at VA

LAS VEGAS – Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences, gave an update of her company’s work on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Electronic Health Records Modernization project.

Seema Verma is ‘excited about progress’ of Oracle’s EHR modernization at VA

LAS VEGAS – Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences, gave an update of her company’s work on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Electronic Health Records Modernization project.

Curbing Medicaid expansion could cause $80 billion hit to providers

Cutting Medicaid funding and halting the program’s expansion would result in providers revenues decreasing by about $80 billion, and uncompensated care on behalf of uninsured people would increase by $18.9 billion in 2026 due to declines in health insu…

Physicians ‘outraged’ that spending bill fails to avert pay cut

Physicians are again shortchanged in a spending bill proposal to avert a government shutdown by the end of this week.
The continuing resolution that passed the House on Tuesday, and which now moves on to the Senate, contains no provision to stop the 2….

Teladoc partnering with Eli Lilly on self-pay GLP-1 access

Teladoc Health has entered into a pharmacy integration agreement with Eli Lilly’s LillyDirect pharmacy partner, Gifthealth, which is intended to help streamline access to Zepbound medication for members enrolled in the Comprehensive Weight Care Program…

CMS proposes shortening ACA open enrollment window

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in a break from Biden-era policies, is proposing to shorten the open enrollment period for Affordable Care Act marketplace plans in a bid to curb “improper enrollments.”
The proposed regulation would see …

$880 billion in spending cuts not possible without slashing Medicaid

House Republicans’ previously proposed budget looked at $880 billion in spending cuts from programs overseen by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.