New Medicare cards to be initiate rolling out in April 2018
The CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) is moving forward to remove Social Security numbers from new Medicare cards with the task done by the year of April 2019. The program, to better...
View ArticleIllinois regulators to conduct 1st broad Market Examination of BCBS in 27 years
Illinois regulators will conduct a broad market examination of Chicago-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) of Illinois’ compliance with consumer protection regulations, a move it has not pursued...
View ArticleUHC, All Children’s Hospital resume contract negotiations
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital declared on the day of Tuesday that it hadn’t come to a contract agreement with insurance provider UnitedHealthcare, leaving several sick kids without coverage....
View ArticleTenet Health & Humana come to agreement on latest contract
Highlights of Tenet Health: Tenet Health will be back in coverage network of Humana after the 2 companies negotiated a multi-year contract, South Florida Business Journal reported. The companies failed...
View Article700 new jobs to come at Ohio for office complex renovation
700 new jobs will be coming to the Ohio soon. United Healthcare Group is presently renovating an office complex in Dublin just outside Columbus. The new positions will “support care providers and...
View ArticleCigna, CVS Health To Deliver Services To Self-Funded Health Plans of Cigna
Cigna and CVS Health declared on the day of Thursday (June 8) the launch of Cigna Health WorksSM: a new collaboration, that aligns Cigna-administered health benefits with CVS Pharmacy and CVS...
View ArticleLatest cardiac imaging technology receives high rating from BCBSA
HeartFlow, a cardiac imaging technology company in the region of Redwood City, California, has got positive reviews on its HeartFlow FFRct, a non-invasive technology that utilizes coronary CT...
View ArticleSamaritas Home Health offers health care services to home-bound sufferers
Whether it is from injury, sickness or aging, Samaritas Home Health can assist sufferers recover, regain independence and become as self-sufficient as possible with their at-home health care services....
View ArticleHampton Regional Medical Center, UHC develop new network relationship
Hampton Regional Medical Center and UnitedHealthcare (UHC) have developed a new network relationship that provides individuals enrolled in UnitedHealthcare employer-sponsored, individual and Medicare...
View ArticleDallas: Owner of Agency Sentenced in $400M Home Health Care Fraud
The owner of a home health agency in the region of Dallas has been sentenced to seventeen years in prison for his role in the largest home health care fraud scheme of nation in history—an almost $400...
View ArticlePhysicianOne Urgent Care To “Again” Achieve the Status as Only UCAOA...
PhysicianOne Urgent Care, an Affiliate of Yale New Haven Health, was the 1st — and continues to be the only — urgent care agency in Connecticut to gain Urgent Care Association of America (UCAOA)...
View ArticleAetna, Sutter Health to initiate joint health policy
National insurer Aetna and Sutter Health, a 24-hospital not-for-profit system in Sacramento, Calif., have struck an agreement to initiate a health plan developed to lower healthcare costs for employers...
View ArticleHumana Acquires Silver and Bronze Stevie® Awards in 2017 American Business...
Humana, one of the nation’s leading health and well-being companies, has achieved 3 Stevie® Awards—in the orientation video, service sales video and the lifestyle app categories— in the fifteenth...
View ArticleHome healthcare aide sentenced to 5 Years for stealing from elderly Woman
A home healthcare aide has been sentenced to 5 years of probation in Erie County Court for stealing money from an 82-year-old West Seneca lady. Mary Talbot, 54, of Cheektowaga, pleaded guilty in the...
View Article2k North Carolina physicians partners with Aetna for Rural Healthcare...
Raleigh, N.C.-based Community Care Physician Network and Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna collaborated for rural healthcare initiatives in the region of North Carolina for Medicare Advantage policyholders....
View ArticleCigna Foundation Donates $100,000 to National Hockey League Foundation In...
In proving Cigna’s commitment to the NHL’s Every Save Counts™ campaign of National Hockey League, the Cigna Foundation donated $100,000 to the National Hockey League Foundation in support of Hockey...
View ArticleMore than two-thirds of patients cannot pay their hospital bills
More than two-thirds of sufferers are not paying their entire hospital bills, and that number could increase to 95% by the year of 2020, in accordance with a study from TransUnion, a company that...
View ArticleBCBS Minnesota, Children’s Minnesota Continue Agreement Negotiations
Staff at Children’s Minnesota sustains contract negotiations with Blue Cross Blue Shield or BCBS Minnesota. The hospital claims the insurance company gave them an impossible ultimatum. Either accepts a...
View ArticleBCBSA Study Indicates More Than One in 5 Members Fill an Opioid Prescription...
21% of Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) commercially insured members filled at least one opioid prescription in the year of 2015, in accordance with a new study by the Blue Cross Blue Shield...
View ArticleHome health care permits individuals to stay in their homes for medical services
Home health care is a unique field that permits individuals to get medical services within their own home environment. In accordance with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, almost 1.3 million home...
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