Johnson & Johnson’s consumer health business, which will break away from its pharmaceutical and medical device arm, will be named Kenvue, the company said Sept. 28.
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Philadelphia staffing company to pay $9.3M in back wages, damages over allegations of denied overtime pay
A Philadelphia-based healthcare staffing company will pay $9.3 million in back wages and liquidated damages for 1,756 employees to resolve allegations it misclassified workers and willfully denied their overtime pay, the Labor Department announced Sept…
7 health system CIO exits from the past year
Here are seven healthcare CIOs who have left their jobs since October.
CMS missed $2.8M in savings due to price substitution error, OIG audit finds
Medicare lost out on $2.8 million in savings in 2020 by incorrectly implementing price reductions on Medicare Part B drugs, an HHS Office of Inspector General audit found.
HCA hospitals make 16 leadership changes
HCA Healthcare, a 182-hospital system based in Nashville, Tenn., has made leadership changes at several of its hospitals in recent months.
Mass General Brigham, GV, General Catalyst part of $32M funding round for mental healthcare company focused on older adults
Mass General Brigham Ventures, Alphabet-backed GV and General Catalyst are all part of a $32 million seed funding round for Rippl, a tech-driven mental healthcare company focused on older adults.
Humana’s 3rd-party vendor breach affects 22,767 patients
Choice Health, the company used to help Humana sell its products, experienced a data breach that resulted in the protected health information of 22,767 patients being compromised.
When does this count as a crisis, physicians ask of capacity issues at children’s hospitals
Children’s hospitals across the U.S. are being inundated with patients sick with respiratory viruses.
These are the largest U.S counties with the most medical debt
Texas counties have the highest percentage of residents with medical debt out of the country’s 20 largest counties, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of Urban Credit Institute data.
Texas hospital restores clinical systems 3 weeks after cyberattack
Richmond, Texas-based OakBend Medical Center has almost completely restored its clinical systems after a Sept. 1 ransomware attack took them offline.
