Category: Modern Healthcare

About 1,650 Trinity Health employees will see their positions relocated to Michigan and Ohio or outsourced to a vendor in the coming years as the system transitions to an Epic EHR system.

House and Senate lawmakers reintroduced the Creates Act, a controversial bill aimed at curbing tactics brand-name drugmakers use to stymie generic and biosimilar competition.

A federal judge denied Oscar Health’s request for a preliminary injunction to stop Florida Blue from enforcing a policy that prevented its insurance agents from selling competing insurers’ coverage.

President Donald Trump’s plan to eradicate HIV/AIDS in a decade will include adding resources to 48 counties and seven states that have a high number of new infections.

Louisville, Ky.-based health insurer Humana recorded higher revenue in the fourth quarter of 2018, as it brought in more premium revenue from Medicare Advantage plans.

Health insurer Oscar Health named AIG executive Sid Sankaran as its new chief financial officer starting on March 1.

President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address called for legislation to support the HHS proposal to tie Medicare drug prices to average prices paid in other similar countries—a policy congressional Republicans haven’t yet committed to.

Despite near-record bookings in the fourth quarter of 2018, Cerner Corp. missed its revenue expectations and recorded a sharp drop in operating earnings.

The new venture represents the most promising attempt to improve healthcare in the U.S., Kutan wrote in a LinkedIn post announcing his new job.

WellCare Health Plans CEO Ken Burkick called 2018 a “very good year” for the insurer. That’s thanks in part to its $2.5 billion acquisition of Meridian Health Plan and related 44% increase in Medicaid customers.