Category: Modern Healthcare

Ballot measure would have hiked taxes to cover no-cost, at-home healthcare services for seniors and disabled people regardless of income level.

Massachusetts voters rejected a ballot measure to institute mandated nurse-to-patient staffing ratios next year. California is the only state to have a similar law.

Stanson Health, which was founded by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Dr. Scott Weingarten, provides software that feeds real-time clinical data into electronic health records to guide the most appropriate care.

HHS’ Office of Inspector General found hospitals fraudulently either double counted the number of interns and residents they had or claimed some working at other hospitals to get more graduate medical education funds.

Kenneth Myers started his career with the Burroughs Corp. in Detroit. In 1966, he made his way to William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., where he began as controller and ended his career 30 years later as CEO.

Kentucky-based Medicaid managed-care health insurer Passport Health Plan has introduced a pilot program to address the high rate of premature births among its members by using analytics to identify at-risk patients earlier in their pregnancies.

Senate Democratic candidates have been the biggest recipients of provider dollars this campaign cycle. Hospitals and nursing homes have ramped up their share of contributions to that party by more than 31 percentage points in the runup to the vote.

A federal appellate court refused to rehear Moda Health Plan and Land of Lincoln’s appeal to recoup billions of dollars in unpaid risk-corridor payments. The case could head to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Harmony Health Plan is becoming part of Meridian Health Plan following WellCare’s $2.5 billion acquisition of Meridian. Illinois’ Medicaid managed-care program is back down to six insurers.

A federal judge temporarily shut down a South Florida-based operation called Simple Health Plans that allegedly collected more than $100 million from tens of thousands of consumers for plans dubbed Trumpcare and simplemedicareplans.