Category: Operations, Business

Humana, Aledade expand value-based care to rural clinics, FQHCs

Health insurer Humana and independent primary care network Aledade are expanding their partnership, extending services to rural health clinics and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) with an eye toward achieving and sustaining value-based care.

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 …

Cedars-Sinai cancer director stepping down

Dr. Dan Theodorescu, director of Cedars-Sinai Cancer, is stepping down after six years to pursue new professional opportunities, Cedars-Sinai said this week.
During Theodorescu’s tenure, Cedars-Sinai Cancer doubled its National Institutes of Health fun…

Evernorth, NBA partner on community health

Evernorth Health Services, a division of Cigna, has entered into a multi-year partnership with the NBA and the WNBA on a campaign to improve community health, making it the official health services partner of the two leagues.
The collaboration also mak…

Miller Children’s launches pediatric care network

Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital in Long Beach, California is kick-starting a new network to provide primary and specialty pediatric care.

California insurers launch primary care model

Three California-based health plans – Aetna, Blue Shield of California and Health Net – have come together to implement a shared value-based payment model under the California Advanced Primary Care Initiative’s Payment Model Demonstration Project. 

Mobile Healthcare does house calls

Monadnock Community Hospital (MCH) in Peterborough, New Hampshire has enacted a mobile healthcare program to close care gaps in nearby rural communities.

New York putting $188 million toward cancer center

New York State is investing in seven hospitals and healthcare partnerships, with preliminary approval part of the Healthcare Safety Net Transformation Program. This includes a $188 million investment in Jamaica Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering to …

WashU Medicine to make neurosurgery inroads with philanthropic gift

WashU Medicine in St. Louis is turning a philanthropic gift of $50 million into a vehicle for recruiting neurosurgeons and researchers, and enhancing the research capabilities of the facility’s neurosurgery department.
Andrew Taylor, an emeritus truste…

L.A. Care Health Plan appoints Santana-Chin next CEO

The Board of Governors of L.A. Health Plan has unanimously given the green light to appoint Martha Santana-Chin as its next  CEO – making her the first female and Latina CEO to lead the organization, it said last week.