Cigna: 50,000 Medicare Advantage Customers To be Lose As Sanctions Sustain
Cigna CEO David Cordani will inform analysts tomorrow that his company hopes to add between 300,000 and 500,000 medical consumers during the year of 2017. If the growth comes in at the low range, that...
View ArticleBCBS drops CVS Pharmacy from network for certain plans
Being on Obamacare in Alabama State just got a little more complex. Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of Alabama declared CVS Pharmacy is no longer in its network for individual and small business plans. A...
View ArticleAetna Bearing Company Accepts Strategic Partnership with Elgeti Engineering GmbH
Aetna Bearing Company, headquartered in the region of Franklin Park, Illinois, accepted a strategic partnership with Elgeti Engineering GmbH to be their devoted bearing and system testing solution...
View ArticleHome health agency agrees to pay fine for false billing
A home health agency and its owners have accepted to pay a fine of $5.25 million settlement for false billing after reaching a contract with the state and federal government to resolute claims of...
View ArticleER, Urgent care opens on Friday across from Westlake Shopping Center
A 24-hour urgent care ted with an emergency room combination opened on the day of Friday across the street from Westlake Shopping Center, filling a long-time empty lot. The new 8,432-square-foot...
View ArticleCigna, Scripps Health Enters into an Alliance to Deliver Innovative Health Plans
Scripps Health and Cigna have stepped into an alliance to provide employers in and around San Diego integrated health care products and innovative health plans developed to make better access, quality...
View ArticleEHRs assist to ensure precise patient use of blood thinners
Medication adherence is significant for sufferers, particularly when it comes to blood thinners prescribed after they leave the hospital. In specific, electronic health records (EHRs) have indicated...
View ArticleContinuous Glucose Monitors (CGM) Prepares for Medicare Coverage
Continuous glucose monitors (CGM) have emerged as effective tools to measure and check glucose levels in real-time 24 hours per day, and are established devices for diabetes management in the growing...
View ArticleCigna Health Insurance Won’t Provide Coverage for Epipens Anymore
Cigna health insurance giant has declared that it won’t give coverage for brand name EpiPen anymore. This Mylan epinephrine autoinjector is a famous life-saving drug to battle allergic reactions and...
View ArticleAllina Health System, Aetna to initiate insurance company in Minnesota
Allina Health System and insurance giant Aetna plan to empower competition in the regional health insurance company market through a joint venture that would begin offering commercial coverage in the...
View ArticleYWCA Helena acquires $25K grant from BCBS
Blue Cross-Blue Shield (BCBS) of Montana surprised YWCA Helena on the day of Thursday with a $25,000 grant to assist improve the health and well-being of the ladies and children in their care. The...
View ArticleOhio Mother, son sentenced in $7M home healthcare scheme
A jury on the day of Friday evening sentenced a mother and son for a $7 million home healthcare scheme to deceptively bill government medical programs via a Northeast Ohio home health-care company....
View ArticleChildren’s Health Coverage Coalition Supports Medicaid and CHIP
The Children’s Health Coverage Coalition, which is made up of various groups involving the Children’s Hospital Association of Texas, wishes to support Medicaid and CHIP this legislative session in the...
View ArticleThe New Urgent Care Clinic Inaugurated in Bryan
The new urgent care clinic is equipped to manage all non-life threatening sicknesses and wounds like lacerations, burns, rashes, possible fractures, allergic reactions, ear infections and the flu....
View ArticleFederal Judge blocks intended acquisition of Humana
$37 billion deal of Aetna to purchase rival insurer Humana has been blocked by a federal judge on Monday, thwarting one of 2 large mergers that would reshape the U.S. healthcare landscape. Aetna...
View ArticleGrady Health System and Aetna Agrees to a New Agreement
Grady Health System declared today that the two agencies have agreed to a new agreement which maintains full in-network access for Aetna members to the clinical services of Grady Health System. The...
View ArticleUtilization of location systems growing within healthcare
The global real-time location systems market are expected to surge at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 46% between the time period of 2017 and 2021, in accordance to a report from...
View ArticleSeparate agreements will keep regional clinics with BCBS
Medical services offered at 2 Central Minnesota clinics will remain in-network for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota-insured sufferers after a separate agreements were reached between the...
View ArticleAetna: PillPack join its Preferred Medicare Pharmacy Network for 2017
Aetna today declared that PillPack has joined its preferred Medicare pharmacy network for the year of 2017. Effective now, Aetna Medicare members can fill covered prescriptions via full-service mail...
View ArticleTargeted approach by utilizing text messaging controls alcohol abuse
Text messaging might assists to reduce social or binge drinking, in accordance to research done at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. Results indicate “that when drinkers got adaptive...
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